Chocolate soft serve with 70% Saint Domingue bon bon & coffee...1474 yen (tax included)
Rich, creamy & the bon bon was fruity!
Matcha terrine & kurichocolat (chestnut chocolate) yokan & coffee...1155 yen (tax included)
rich, bitter matcha, brandy soaked chestnut and chocolate...delicious!
I'll be back.
Chojuji..in the sitting area they don’t allow chatter, so it was nice to be still for a couple of minutes and all the peonies in the garden were beautiful
Lunch at Micoco Cafe...I ordered the spice curry...1500 yen (tax included)
This came with a salad made with Kamakura veggies...the curry wasn't hot spicy but was super flavorful.
Satoshi had their kenchin soup with musubi 1150 yen (tax included)
I thought his lunch was a little too small, so I also gave him some of my curry.
Kenchoji is a huge property with lots of smaller temples.
One temple, Hansobo, has lots of tengu (goblins)
There is also a spot to see Mount Fuji, but dust cloud hampered our view on this day
In the Dharma Hall you can view the dragon and clouds on the ceiling.
There are several juniper trees that are over 1000 years old.
When we visited there were also lots of peonies blooming.
Near the JR Kitakamakura station is Hanabishi, a sweet shop that sells fruit daifuku.
We purchased the benihoppe...580 yen (plus tax)
Fuji apple...430 yen (plus tax)
There wasn't anything out of the ordinary about these, though they do give you a red thread to cut your daifuku in half.
Glad we tried this but dunno that we’d go back here.
From Kitakamakura, you can walk to Kamakura, but I feel Kamakura is one of those overtourism spots, so we instead walked in the opposite direction to Ofuna, where we spotted the Ofuna Kannon.
In the past, we had seen the kannon from the train and wondered about it, apparently it took over 40 million yen and many decades to finish.
After hiking up the steep walkway, it was amazing to see.
The temples we visited had admission fees for adults & children (I've only noted the adult fee here).
It was nice to bond with nature and not many tourists.
We hope to come back to this area for iris & hydrangea season
Jochiji
1402 Yamanouchi
Kamakura, Kanagawa
Hours: 9:00-16:30
Admission* 200 yen for adults
Meigetsuin
189 Yamanouchi
Kamakura, Kanagawa
Hours: 9:00-16:00
Admission* 500 yen for adults
Chojuji
1503 Yamanouchi
Kamakura, Kanagawa
Hours: 9:00-15:00
Admission* 300 yen for adults
Kenchoji
8 Yamanouchi
Kamakura, Kanagawa
Hours: 8:30-16:30
Admission* 500 yen for adults
Micoco Cafe
1489-4 Yamanouchi
Kamakura, Kanagawa
Hours: 11:00-17:00
Chocolaterie Calva
407 Yamanouchi
Kamakura, Kanagawa
Closed Tuesdays & Wednesdays
Hours: 10:00-16:00
Fruit Daifuku Hanabishi (UPDATE: out of business)
495-9 Yamanouchi
Kamakura, Kanagawa
Hours: 9:00-16:00 (closes earlier if sold out)
Ofuna Kannon
1-5-3 Okamoto
Kamakura, Kanagawa
Hours: 9:00-16:00
Admission* 300 yen for adults
More picture and videos
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7 comments:
I remember walking from Kamakura Station to Kitakamakura but don't remember which temples we saw. Gotta go back to check it out. so beautiful and serene.
and your snacks!!!
BTW, when I tried clicking on the link for more photos, only one picture of some pastries or chocolates in a row pop up. There was also a box saying to in case I need to recover my account to verify my email but I didn't. Wonder what happened.
v
Thanks V, I re-did the link, would you mind trying again to see if it works, thanks!
Take care.
Kat
So peaceful feeling, I could even hear the birds.
Yay! It works now!
v
Glad you could hear the birds Jalna :)
Thanks for rechecking it for me V!
Take care you two.
Kat
omigosh, this has never happened while reading a blog before, but when you described your walk I was wondering if someone has ever tried to take cuttings of the plants. I've been bit by the propagation bug, watch out public spaces.
I have seen grandmas take plants from other peoples planters Rowena, that is not cool, and I'm not too sure about being able to take plants from public areas...
Take care!
Kat
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