2013-12-07 Louis et Papa à 鎌倉
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 4.54 mi
- Elevation gain
- 935 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 922 ft
- Max elevation
- 435 ft
- TrailRank
- 57
- Min elevation
- 435 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 3 hours 44 minutes
- Coordinates
- 382
- Uploaded
- December 7, 2013
- Recorded
- December 2013
near Yamanouchi, Kanagawa (Japan)
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Itinerary description
Today we went around Kamakura for another 紅葉 episode.
I was alone with my son so around 11AM, I seized my chance when he was asleep to grab some lunch in Ofuna station. The timing was perfect as he woke up exactly when I was done with my dish. The restaurant floor was crowded when we got out so I expected crowds in Kita kamakura station. However it turns out people must have been somewhere else, the place was not empty but it was fine.
We first visited Engaku-ji and Louis was awake so we walked there and started taking pictures just after the entrance in front of a cluster of momiji trees with bright red leaves. We then followed the path towards the end of the temple complex, it has a gentle slope and I made Louis walk and even climb stairs until he started to sit and play in the dirt. After I picked him up he felt fast asleep and I made my way to Kenchou-ji without him even realizing.
This complex has more buildings and extends further in the mountains with a lot more stairs. The admission fee is 300 yen like Engaku-ji. On the lower part of the temple the trees were not impressive and all past their prime, yet on the upper half the colors were brighter and it was well worth the money paid. Louis was still asleep when I reached the highest temple of the complex: Hansobo. It may be December already but it was a warm day, well above 10 degrees with no clouds and the stairs to the North were all exposed to the sun, so I was really hot and sweaty as I reached Hansobo, some 100+m high. The path goes on with a steep series of stairs made of rock up to an observatory which offers a plunging view of Kamakura. It was too early to wait for the sunset but it might have been a nice location (not entirely sure the sun wouldn't be occluded by the hills on the way to the ocean)
We then moved to Genjiyama park, which is nothing more than a hill with steep slopes all around it. In retrospective I should have gone to Tsuruoka hachiman gu instead. From Kenchou-ji it was even farther to go to Genjiyama by a few hundred meters but time-wise I didn't have enough time to visit both places. Genjiyama had nothing particularly interesting to offer and we quickly left the place to go towards Kamakura station and return home.
More pictures here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pu89wvyl8fxp58c/zLo2xTakv9
I was alone with my son so around 11AM, I seized my chance when he was asleep to grab some lunch in Ofuna station. The timing was perfect as he woke up exactly when I was done with my dish. The restaurant floor was crowded when we got out so I expected crowds in Kita kamakura station. However it turns out people must have been somewhere else, the place was not empty but it was fine.
We first visited Engaku-ji and Louis was awake so we walked there and started taking pictures just after the entrance in front of a cluster of momiji trees with bright red leaves. We then followed the path towards the end of the temple complex, it has a gentle slope and I made Louis walk and even climb stairs until he started to sit and play in the dirt. After I picked him up he felt fast asleep and I made my way to Kenchou-ji without him even realizing.
This complex has more buildings and extends further in the mountains with a lot more stairs. The admission fee is 300 yen like Engaku-ji. On the lower part of the temple the trees were not impressive and all past their prime, yet on the upper half the colors were brighter and it was well worth the money paid. Louis was still asleep when I reached the highest temple of the complex: Hansobo. It may be December already but it was a warm day, well above 10 degrees with no clouds and the stairs to the North were all exposed to the sun, so I was really hot and sweaty as I reached Hansobo, some 100+m high. The path goes on with a steep series of stairs made of rock up to an observatory which offers a plunging view of Kamakura. It was too early to wait for the sunset but it might have been a nice location (not entirely sure the sun wouldn't be occluded by the hills on the way to the ocean)
We then moved to Genjiyama park, which is nothing more than a hill with steep slopes all around it. In retrospective I should have gone to Tsuruoka hachiman gu instead. From Kenchou-ji it was even farther to go to Genjiyama by a few hundred meters but time-wise I didn't have enough time to visit both places. Genjiyama had nothing particularly interesting to offer and we quickly left the place to go towards Kamakura station and return home.
More pictures here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pu89wvyl8fxp58c/zLo2xTakv9
Waypoints
Religious site
-32,805 ft
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