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#CatTravels: I (heart) Kamakura

By Catherine Toth Fox • April 28, 2012 • #CatTravels

There are a few places I completely fall in love with when I’m traveling.

Paris was one of them. Kamakura happens to be another.

This charming town southwest of Tokyo — home to just 174,000 people — has everything you could want: a local train, friendly neighbors, scenic walks, cool breezes and a beach with surf.

It’s close enough to the bright lights of Ginza, the shopping in Roppongi, and the nightlife in Shibuya. But it’s far enough away that you don’t feel like you’re in a big city, you’re not stressed, you can breathe.

Here’s why I fell so hard for this little town:

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We got up early and headed to Kamakura, a sleepy little town located an hour southwest of Tokyo. Its best known as the home to many important Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples — in addition to a beach we wanted to check out.

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14 Comments

  • Reply kat April 28, 2012 at 1:41 am

    great post! picture #31 is of a lady making “kintsuba” this is by dipping blocks of sweet potato yokan or anko (sweet bean paste) into a thin batter then cooking them on all sides.

    • Reply Catherine Toth April 28, 2012 at 2:40 am

      THANKS FOR THAT! I didn’t know what the heck was going on — and my Japanese-speaking friend was halfway up the street. 🙂

  • Reply M April 28, 2012 at 6:21 am

    Great pics!

    • Reply Catherine Toth April 28, 2012 at 4:04 pm

      Thanks!! And yep, onsen next time. I’ve been before so I was OK not to go. But some of my fellow travelers hadn’t. They woulda loved it.

  • Reply M April 28, 2012 at 6:28 am

    Next time you got to try the hot springs.

  • Reply matt April 28, 2012 at 9:51 am

    gorgeous area. another to add to my list.
    what’s the water temp there? have to wear wetsuit?

    • Reply Catherine Toth April 28, 2012 at 4:02 pm

      One of the surfers said it’s 17 degrees Celsius. I’m pretty sure that’s cold. Guys are wearing 3 mil suits. But it really warms up in the summer.

  • Reply hawaii2000 April 28, 2012 at 10:35 am

    So beautiful! I’m not positive, but I think picture #26 are azaleas, not hydrangeas. Love these photos!

    • Reply Catherine Toth April 28, 2012 at 4:01 pm

      You’re probably right. I worked on a flower shop and I’m terrible at identifying them!

      • Reply kat April 28, 2012 at 9:22 pm

        it is called shakunage and it is a type of azalea

  • Reply Pam April 28, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    The senbei looked sooooo good!

  • Reply David Jackson April 29, 2012 at 4:01 am

    You should be a travel writer!

    • Reply Catherine Toth April 29, 2012 at 12:39 pm

      If I could get a gig doing that for a living, I’d jump at it. Until then, I’ll just pretend 🙂

      • Reply David Jackson April 30, 2012 at 11:49 am

        Amen sistah, amen.

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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi, Catherine Toth Fox has been chronicling her adventures in her blog, The Cat Dish, for more than a decade. She worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for 10 years and continues to freelance—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications. She’s currently the editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine.

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