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Coordinates: 35°19′29″N 139°33′21″E. Tsurugaoka Hachimangū (鶴岡八幡宮) is the most important Shinto shrine in the city of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The shrine is a cultural center of the city of Kamakura and serves as the venue of many of its most important festivals with two museums.
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Tsurugaoka Hachimangu (鶴岡八幡宮, Tsurugaoka Hachimangū) is Kamakura's most important shrine. It was founded by Minamoto Yoriyoshi in 1063, and enlarged and moved to its current site in 1180 by Minamoto Yoritomo, the founder and first shogun of the Kamakura government.
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Tsurugaoka Hachimangu is the most important Shinto shrine of Kamakura, a city in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture. The huge complex, which is visited by many people, can be discovered by walking up Yuigahama-dori, a broad street running through the heart of the city and bordered by sakura trees blooming in spring. Contents.
Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine is inextricably linked with nearly a century of Japanese history and culture. Today, the shrine, which stands at the center of Kamakura, is widely considered the soul of the city. You enter through many massive red torii gates that stretch through the center of Kamakura. On either side of the wide road leading up to ...
Kamakura festival/Shizuka-no-mai dance (2nd Sunday in April), Yabusame (Yabusame) (3rd Sunday in April) Shobu-sai (Iris) (May 5) Nagoshi-sai (End of Summer) (the day before the beginning of autumn) Risshu-sai (Start of Autumn) (the beginning of autumn) Sanetomo-sai (Minamoto Sanetomo) (August 9)
Dec 5, 2011 · Starting more than 800 years ago and lasting 150 years, the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine was the center of the great samurai city of Kamakura. Today the shrine is still an active busy beehive, full of activities and year-round events.
Apr 15, 2019 · Tsurugaoka Hachimangū Shrine in Kamakura is an impressive, 1000 year old shrine located in the middle of Kamakura City. In fact, it is considered the most important shrine in the entire city. The shrine sits up on a hill side, overlooking the city, and is well known for it’s 1.8km long approach and it’s 1000 year old Ginkgo tree, which ...
