Clear the Kamakura Local Quiz and earn the Kamakura Local title. Want to know Kamakura even better, or already confident? The tougher courses are next.
Walk down Wakamiya Oji toward the sea and the shape of Kamakura starts to reveal itself. This quiz is built around the samurai capital that Minamoto no Yoritomo established: Tsurugaoka Hachimangu at the head of his great avenue, the Great Buddha sitting in the open air, the Zen temples clustered around Kita-Kamakura, and the contrast between hilltop Hasedera overlooking the shore and Hokokuji tucked deep in its bamboo valley. The Enoden line stitches the coastal neighborhoods together, and present-day arrangements, from the park-and-ride scheme to Blue Flag beach certification, appear in the questions as well. Reading landscape and history together is the real skill being tested; the opening questions will show you how that feels.
Kamakura: What the names refer toWhich JR exit at Kamakura Station is closer to Komachi-dori?
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Take on this quizCorrect answerSagami Bay
Kamakura's coastline curves along Sagami Bay, taking in the beaches of Yuigahama and Zaimokuza before reaching the cape of Inamuragasaki, prized for sunset views of Mt. Fuji. Local legend holds that in 1333 the rebel general Nitta Yoshisada threw his sword into the sea here and prayed to a dragon god for the tide to withdraw.
Source:Kamakura City: Beaches
Correct answerEnoden
Enoden, the Enoshima Electric Railway, opened in 1902 and runs about 10 kilometers between Fujisawa and Kamakura on a single track. Certain stretches thread so close to houses that the train seems to brush past front doors, while other stretches hug the coastline, making the ride notable for its constantly shifting scenery.
Correct answerKotokuin
Kotokuin, a Jodo-sect temple, enshrines the Great Buddha of Kamakura, a National Treasure statue roughly 11.3 meters tall and said to weigh about 121 tons. Casting is thought to have begun in 1252, and the original hall that once sheltered the statue was destroyed by a tsunami in 1498, leaving the Buddha to sit in the open air ever since.
Source:Kotokuin: The Great Buddha and Kotokuin's Buddhist Sect
Correct answerWadazuka
Wadazuka is the next stop on Enoden after Kamakura Station. Its name is said to come from a burial mound raised for those who died on the losing side of the Wada Rebellion in 1213, when the Wada clan was crushed by the Hojo regents, so the station name still carries a memory of that medieval conflict.
Correct answer1180
Minamoto no Yoritomo moved Tsurugaoka Hachimangu to its present site in 1180, the same year he entered Kamakura, relocating it from the earlier Yui Wakamiya shrine in Yui village. That relocation marked the starting point from which the shrine grew into the spiritual center of his shogunate and the wider samurai society.
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