Tsurugaoka Hachimangü Shrine

Local name鶴岡八幡宮
LocationKamakura, Japan

Tsurugaoka Hachimangū 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.

For most of its history, it served both as a Hachiman shrine, and in latter years a Tendai Buddhist temple typical of Japanese Buddhist architecture. The famed Buddhist priest Nichiren Daishonin once reputedly visited the shrine to reprimand the kami Hachiman just before his execution at Shichirigahama beach.

A former one thousand-year-old ginkgo tree near its entrance was uprooted by a storm on 10 March 2010. The shrine continues to serve as one of the Important Cultural Properties of Japan.

Tags Place of WorshipShintoism
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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsurugaoka_Hachimangū

Official Website http://www.hachimangu.or.jp/

Phone +81 467220315

Address (Unnamed Road), Kamakura, Japan

Coordinates 35°19'30.143" N 139°33'21.856" E

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