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The Kamakura return

Long calls, confident train users — the great Buddha south. Timed from the gangway and back, with the hour before all-aboard already set aside.

~7h door to door6 stops8 hours or more ashore
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Photo: Wikimedia contributor / CC BY-SA 4.0
Door to door
~7h
From the gangway and back
Best for
8 hours or more
Long calls, confident train users — the great Buddha south
What it costs
~¥600 rail + entries; Chinatown lunch sets the rest
Transport spend: ~¥600 rail + entries; Chinatown lunch sets the rest.
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups
The route

How the day runs

Times are from the moment you step off, not from the scheduled arrival. Everything shifts if your ship is late; the order does not.

  1. +0:00
    Train from Ishikawacho/Yokohama to Kamakura (~50 min)

    JR Yokosuka line direct

    What you will see here →
  2. +1:00
    Hase-dera temple — hillside Kannon and hydrangea paths

    The bay view terrace first

  3. +2:15
    The Great Buddha, open air since 1495

    Go inside the bronze for pocket change

    What you will see here →
    Photo: okoysm / CC BY
  4. +3:15
    Komachi-dori lunch + snack street

    Shirasu-don is the coast’s dish

  5. +4:30
    Train back toward Yokohama

    Screenshot the timetable on arrival

    Photo: Jorge Láscar from Australia / CC BY
  6. +5:45
    Walk/taxi to Osanbashi

    75+ min margin on a 9h call

    What you will see here →Full guide: Osanbashi →
    Photo: Kakidai / CC BY-SA
The margin is not optional. This route ends an hour before all-aboard on purpose. If you are running late, drop the last stop, not the hour.
What the day looks like

Yokohama, along this route

Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.

A woodblock print of foreign merchants in Yokohama, 1861
A woodblock print of foreign merchants in Yokohama, 1861Photo: Utagawa Sadahide / Public domain
The wooden rooftop deck of Osanbashi Pier, Yokohama
The wooden rooftop deck of Osanbashi Pier, YokohamaPhoto: Uploader; Vantey / Public domain
Silk-reeling machinery at the Tomioka Silk Mill
Silk-reeling machinery at the Tomioka Silk MillPhoto: C1815 / CC0
A bowl of ie-kei ramen with spinach, nori and chashu
A bowl of ie-kei ramen with spinach, nori and chashuPhoto: avlxyz / CC BY-SA
Osanbashi
OsanbashiPhoto: Ymblanter / CC BY-SA 4.0
Sankeien
SankeienPhoto: Arisdp / CC BY-SA 3.0
Different hours, different day

The other routes in Yokohama

The rainy-day YokohamaA wet day · ~4hWet weather — this port is unusually good in rainThe pier promenade2–3 hours · ~2.5hOsanbashi calls — the city arranged around your walkThe Minato Mirai wander4–6 hours · ~4.5hMuseums, malls and noodle history in one arc
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