Private Trail Running Tour in Kamakura Daibutsu Hiking Course

If you visit “Great Buddha of Kamakura” of “Kotokuin Temple”, we recommend you to choose running course.
“Kamakura’s Daibutsu Hiking Trail” starting from Kitakamakura Station is a 3 kilometer-long trail that includes a historic temples and shrines, a beautiful forest and a stylish cafe in the forest.
Of course the goal is “Kotokuin Temple” with “Great Buddha of Kamakura”.

Tour details

Price : 1500 yen per person

Distance : 3 km

Private Tour (Your family and friends are OK.)

Difficulty : ★☆☆☆☆

Language : English, Japanese

Meeting place : Hotel pick-up or Kita-Kamakura Station (depends on your preference)

Meeting time : negotiable

Trail Running to Kamakura Daibutsu Hiking Course

Jouchiji Temple — The green lush Jochiji Temple wrapped in silence designated as a national historic site is the starting point of Kamakura Daibutsu Hiking Course.

In this course you will first leave from Kitakamakura station and you will explore the famous Tokeiji Temple at Engakuji Temple, the second largest Kamakura Gozan temples.
After that you will climb the mountain trail of “kuzuharagaoka hiking course” from Jochiji Temple, wash your coin with “Zeniarai Benten Shrine”, then walk “Daibutsu Hikingu Course” to “Great Buddha of Kamakura”.
In the end you visit the “Hasedera Temple”, Enoshima Electric Railway Hase Station is the goal.
It is a course of about 3 km in length.

Most of the trails are dirt trails, I recommend walking easy sneakers or mountaineering shoes.

Flowers are Tokeiji Temple plum in February and March, Cherry blossoms of Kuzuharagaoka in April, Trail of fresh green in May, Hydrangea of Tokeiji Temple in June, Bodhi tree in the bellflower of Jochiji Temple in July, autumn leaves .
You can enjoy various flowers almost all year long.

There are Hasedera Temple and various sights and restaurants around Hase Station.

For more information on this trail running course, click here.

Disclaimer

Please read and give me consent before booking for this tour.

Trail running is an inherently dangerous activity that can lead to serious injuries including but not limited to slip and fall injuries, fractures, snake bite, heat exhaustion, poison oak, ticks and frostbite. By participation in this event/hike you agree to not hold these organizers liable for any harm that may come to you, your guests, or your property. Always remember to let the event organizer know if you are leaving the group. Stay on the trail, never hike alone and use your own common sense.

Booking Now

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Trail Running to Kamakura Diabutu(Great Buddha) Hiking Course

Daibutsu Hiking Course is a trail packed with highlights that connects ‘Jouchiji Temple of Kitakamikura’ and the symbol of Kamakura ‘Great Buddha’ which stands on the grounds of Kotokuin Temple.

It is a course with a great relief and a running distance of about 3 km in total length. Please avoid leather shoes and heels.
This trail which is representative of Kamakura very popular from trail running beginners to advanced people.

If you have plenty of time you can enter the hot spring in the ocean view and relax and return home.

Kamakura is a popular tourist destination to arrive in about 1 hour from Shinjuku. You can see lots of old shrines, temples and Japanese garden and enjoy various types of Japanese restaurants.

JR Yokosuka Line “Kitakamakura station”

area: Kanagawa Prefecture South of Tokyo Genre: Trail Running LEVEL： Beginner Traveling time (not including breaks): 3 hours 30 minutes Distance： About 8km Maximum elevation difference： 100m Access： JR Yokosuka Line「北鎌倉駅 Kitakamakura station」 Return： Enoshima-dentetu Line「稲村ケ崎駅 Inamuragasaki station」

※It is an outline of the approximate course, please note that it is not completely correct guidance.

There is a map of today’s course in front of the station.

Leave the station and turn to the left.

It goes through several temples by Jouchiji Temple for the purpose.

Turn right at this sign.

Jouchiji Temple is more attractive than nature’s famous Zen temple, nature is deep and wild

Admission fee 200 yen.

Continue along the bamboo stuff on the side of Jodiji Temple.

It turns into a mountain path from this neighborhood.

Probably it is a squirrel on the way of the trail, if you hear strange cries from the trees.

I will arrive at the Kuzuhara shrine after going on a steep slope for a while.

In the park adjacent to the shrine, a bench is set up and it is ideal for taking a break.

It is a view which can see the city of Kamakura.

Nearby there is a grave of Toshimoto Hino which is a god of Kuzuhara Oka Shrine.

Let’s follow the signs of Daibutu Hiking Course (大仏ハイキングコース).

It is a luxurious view with sea view.

There is a cafe “Ituki” on the trail.

Koutokuin which there is a great Buddha is 400 meters away.

As you get off the stairs you have a tunnel so please go down the slope without going to the tunnel side.

Kotokuin entrance fee is 200 yen.

It is a famous Kamakura Great Buddha.

You can enter the inside of the Great Buddha with an admission fee of 20 yen.

There are many restaurants and souvenir shops around Kotokuin.

Kamakura gelato is a popular gelato shop.
Triple gelato is 520 yen.

Hase Temple is called the western paradore of Kamakura, a Hase-ji temple that is popular as a “flower temple” throughout the year.

Hydrangea was beginning to bloom at this time.

It is said that it will come true if you write a wish in an ema.

You can also enjoy a beautiful Japanese garden.

Kresannsui is a garden style that expresses the landscape of mountain water with stones, sand, etc. without using water such as pond and sewage.

Next to Hase Sta. There is “Haseka Shokudo”.

We will have beer at “Hase Shokudou”.

Raw Shirasu bowls will be served at soy sauce.

You are going to the sea in a few minutes from Hase Sta.

Let’s go to the seaside (to the right) and go to the hot spring if you have time!

The first floor of Inamuragasaki Onsen is a restaurant.

Let’s relax at the hot spring in the ocean view.

Enoshima Dentetsu Railway “Inamura Gasaki Station”

If you are looking for tour guide of this trail running course please refer to the following.

Private Trail Running Tour in Kamakura Daibutsu Hiking Course

Kita-Kamakura Ten-en Trail Running

What is Kamakura’s Tenen Trail?

How about Kamakura trail running for only 1 hour by train from Tokyo?
Once serving as a holy trail for Shugendou priests, the Kamakura’s Tenen Hiking Trail along the so-called Kamakura Alps with its highest point Ohhirayama, 159.2meters(about 522 feet) above sea level, is the most popular hiking trail in Kamakura.
Hiker will be able to enjoy a view of Sagami Bay and Mt.Fuji, and visit cave tombs and other historic spots along the trail that about 5.5 kilometers or 3.4 miles stretching from Imaizumidai to Zuisenji.
This running route is accessible from several point: Hansobo 半蔵坊 on the premises of the Kenchoji Tenple(an admission fee of 300yen required to enter the tenple), the trail exit near Zuisenji.
It will take two to three hours to enjoy the trail.

Kamakura’s Tenen Trail ~ Okuzashiki of Kencho-ji Temple, To Hansobou

Here we will guide the trail in the direction heading from the Kenchoji Tenple to the Zuisenji Temple in kamakura.

First off is Kitakamakura station(East Entrance)

area: Kanagawa Prefecture South of Tokyo Genre: Trail Running LEVEL： Beginner Traveling time (not including breaks): 2 hours 30 minutes Distance： About 7km Maximum elevation difference： 100m Access： JR Yokosuka Line「北鎌倉駅 Kitakamakura station」 Return： JR Yokosuka Line「鎌倉駅 Kamakura station」

Before Kitami Kamakura Station, it is a famous scenic temple”Enkakuji Temple”.

Kenzoji Temple
In addition, although it is natural, since the Ten-en course passes through the precincts of Kenchoji temple, an admission fee is required. (Pay 300 yen)

When going to the direction length of Kencho-ji and passing too far, it becomes small diameter. It is a Hanzoubou road leading from here to Hanzoubou.

They are Hanzoubou Tengu! The Hanzoubou shrine is coming soon.

Hanzoubou located at the far end of Kenchou temple, where the whole valley is in the precincts. When you climb up the curved stone steps, the statues of the Tengu line up, creating an atmosphere different from the Zen temple like the Kenchou Temple at the foot.

Well, once you pass through the Hanzoubou, you enter the real mountain road. It is about 5 minutes from here to the winning dedicated observation deck. And about 2 hours to Zuisen temple.

Let’s follow the signs of Tenen-Hiking course.

I will advance the violent path of up / down.

My mood is Indy Jones!

The destination zuisen temple is 3.2km away.
There are narrowing, undulations.
Let’s enjoy a trail like a sense of athletics!
Finally arrived. Go through the mountain road that continued from Hanzoubou to the top of Mt. Oohira! Ten-En is a sighty square.

You can purchase beer, soft drinks and snacks at the Ten-En resting place, if it openned.

After running for about an hour the mountain path will end.
It is Zuisenji temple right after exiting the road from the mountain road.an admission fee is required. (Pay 200 yen)

It is almost like a Japanese garden on the moon of Zuisenji Tenple.

It is Kamakuraguu as he goes down the road for a while from Zuisen temple.
Apart from Kamakuraguu, there are many temples around here.
After running for a while, the most famous Tutuokahachimanguu in Kamakura appears.

There are many restaurants and souvenir shops around Tutuokahachimanguu.
We toast with German beer and sausage shop “Chouzume Ya”.

The road that leads from Tutuokahachimanguu to Kamakura station is called “Komachi Street”, and many shops and shops line up.It is a popular Matcha ice cream shop “Kamakura Chacha”.
You can choose the concentration of Matcha in your choice.

Eating out to Kamakura station is fun!

I arrived at Kamakura Station. Congratulations!

Do you need a guide for this hiking course?

If you are looking for guide of this hiking course, please refer to the following.

Trail Running Private Tour for Kamakura’s Tenen Hiking Trail

Private Hiking tour in Kamakura Daibutsu Hiking Course

If you visit “Great Buddha of Kamakura” of “Kotokuin Temple”, we recommend you to choose hiking.
“Kamakura’s Daibutsu Hiking Trail” starting from Kitakamakura Station is a 3 kilometer-long trail that includes a historic temples and shrines, a beautiful forest and a stylish cafe in the forest.
Of course the goal is “Kotokuin Temple” with “Great Buddha of Kamakura”.

Hike to Kamakura Daibutsu Hiking Course

In this hiking course you will first leave from Kitakamakura station and you will explore the famous Tokeiji Temple at Engakuji Temple, the second largest Kamakura Gozan temples.
After that you will climb the mountain trail of “kuzuharagaoka hiking course” from Jochiji Temple, wash your coin with “Zeniarai Benten Shrine”, then walk “Daibutsu Hikingu Course” to “Great Buddha of Kamakura”.
In the end you visit the “Hasedera Temple”, Enoshima Electric Railway Hase Station is the goal.
It is a course of about 3 km in length.

Most of the hiking trails are dirt trails, I recommend walking easy sneakers or mountaineering shoes.

For more information on this hiking route, click here.

Tour details

Price : 1500 yen per person

Distance : 3 km

Private Tour (Your family and friends are OK.)

Difficulty : ★☆☆☆☆

Language : English, Japanese

Meeting place : Hotel pick-up or Kita-Kamakura Station (depends on your preference)

Meeting time : negotiable

Disclaimer

Please read and give me consent before booking for this tour.

Hiking is an inherently dangerous activity that can lead to serious injuries including but not limited to slip and fall injuries, fractures, snake bite, heat exhaustion, poison oak, ticks and frostbite. By participation in this event/hike you agree to not hold these organizers liable for any harm that may come to you, your guests, or your property. Always remember to let the event organizer know if you are leaving the group. Stay on the trail, never hike alone and use your own common sense.

Booking Now

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Trail Running Private Tour for Kamakura’s Tenen Hiking Trail | 1500 yen per person

If you visit Kamakura we recommend trail running to the Kamakura Alps.
You can enjoy a mysterious trail, a historic temple and a spectacular view of the sea and the mountain at the same time.

Trail Running to Kamakura’s Tenen Hiking Trail

Gate of Kenchoji temple | It was founded in 1253 in the Kamakura period, and the main shrine is Jizo Bodhisattva.

Tenen Hiking Trail is a trailhead with Kenchouji-temple with a majestic atmosphere.
A course with a total distance of about 7 km is a well-maintained mountain road and you can enjoy the beautiful view of Sagami Bay in places.
With a moderate up / down hiking course, there are few steep slopes peculiar to the Japanese mountain.
Therefore, climbing shoes dedicated to trail running are not necessary, sneakers are enough.

From Hanzoubou View — The Ten-en hiking course is also called the Kamakura Alps and is a full-fledged recommended hiking course about 4 km in length around the outer circumference of northern Kamakura.

Also, if it is not midwinter you may be able to see lots of lovely squirrels.
At the end of the trail there is the Zuisenji temple, and a stunning Japanese garden awaits you.
After running, there are plenty of sightseeing spots, temples and beaches in Kamakura.
You can have a wonderful and fulfilling holiday.

Tenen Hiking trail — The mossy rock blocks the road. There is also the theory that it was a defensive barrier to prevent the enemy from invading Kamakura once.

For more information on this trail, click here.

Tour details

Price : 1500 yen per person

Distance : 7 km

Private Tour (Your family and friends are OK.)

Difficulty : ★☆☆☆☆

Language : English, Japanese

Meeting place : Hotel pick-up or Kita-Kamakura Station (depends on your preference)

Meeting time : negotiable

Disclaimer

Please read and give me consent before booking for this tour.

Booking Now

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Kamakura’s Tenen Hiking Trail Private Tour | 1500 yen per person

If you visit Kamakura we recommend hiking the course called the Kamakura Alps.
You can enjoy a mysterious trail, a historic temple and a spectacular view of the sea and the mountain at the same time.

Hike to Kamakura’s Tenen Hiking Trail

Also, if it is not midwinter you may be able to see lots of lovely squirrels.
At the end of the trail there is the Zuisenji temple, and a stunning Japanese garden awaits you.
After hiking, there are plenty of sightseeing spots, temples and beaches in Kamakura.
You can have a wonderful and fulfilling holiday.

For more information on this hiking route, click here.

Tour details

Price : 1500 yen per person

Distance : 7 km

Private Tour (Your family and friends are OK.)

Difficulty : ★☆☆☆☆

Language : English, Japanese

Meeting place : Hotel pick-up or Kita-Kamakura Station (depends on your preference)

Meeting time : negotiable

Disclaimer

Please read and give me consent before booking for this tour.

Booking Now

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Kamakura Diabutu(Great Buddha) Hiking Course

Daibutsu Hiking Course is a hiking course packed with highlights that connects ‘Jouchiji Temple of Kitakamikura’ and the symbol of Kamakura ‘Great Buddha’ which stands on the grounds of Kotokuin Temple.

It is a course with a great relief and a walking distance of about 3 km in total length. Please avoid leather shoes and heels.
Hiking course which is representative of Kamakura very popular from hiking beginners to advanced people.

If you have plenty of time you can enter the hot spring in the ocean view and relax and return home.

Kamakura is a popular tourist destination to arrive in about 1 hour from Shinjuku. You can see lots of old shrines, temples and Japanese garden and enjoy various types of Japanese restaurants.

JR Yokosuka Line “Kitakamakura station”

area: Kanagawa Prefecture South of Tokyo Genre: Hiking LEVEL： Beginner Traveling time (not including breaks): 3 hours 30 minutes Distance： About 8km Maximum elevation difference： 100m Access： JR Yokosuka Line「北鎌倉駅 Kitakamakura station」 Return： Enoshima-dentetu Line「稲村ケ崎駅 Inamuragasaki station」

※It is an outline of the approximate course, please note that it is not completely correct guidance.

There is a map of today’s course in front of the station.

Leave the station and turn to the left.

It goes through several temples by Jouchiji Temple for the purpose.

Turn right at this sign.

Jouchiji Temple is more attractive than nature’s famous Zen temple, nature is deep and wild

Admission fee 200 yen.

Continue along the bamboo stuff on the side of Jodiji Temple.

It turns into a mountain path from this neighborhood.

Probably it is a squirrel on the way of the trail, if you hear strange cries from the trees.

I will arrive at the Kuzuhara shrine after going on a steep slope for a while.

In the park adjacent to the shrine, a bench is set up and it is ideal for taking a break.

It is a view which can see the city of Kamakura.

Nearby there is a grave of Toshimoto Hino which is a god of Kuzuhara Oka Shrine.

Let’s follow the signs of Daibutu Hiking Course.

It is a luxurious view with sea view.

There is a cafe “Ituki” on the trail.

Koutokuin which there is a great Buddha is 400 meters away.

As you get off the stairs you have a tunnel so please go down the slope without going to the tunnel side.

Kotokuin entrance fee is 200 yen.

It is a famous Kamakura Great Buddha.

You can enter the inside of the Great Buddha with an admission fee of 20 yen.

There are many restaurants and souvenir shops around Kotokuin.

Kamakura gelato is a popular gelato shop.
Triple gelato is 520 yen.

Hase Temple is called the western paradore of Kamakura, a Hase-ji temple that is popular as a “flower temple” throughout the year.

Hydrangea was beginning to bloom at this time.

It is said that it will come true if you write a wish in an ema.

You can also enjoy a beautiful Japanese garden.

Kresannsui is a garden style that expresses the landscape of mountain water with stones, sand, etc. without using water such as pond and sewage.

Next to Hase Sta. There is “Haseka Shokudo”.

We will have beer at “Hase Shokudou”.

Raw Shirasu bowls will be served at soy sauce.

You are going to the sea in a few minutes from Hase Sta.

Let’s go to the seaside (to the right) and go to the hot spring if you have time!

The first floor of Inamuragasaki Onsen is a restaurant.

Let’s relax at the hot spring in the ocean view.

Enoshima Dentetsu Railway “Inamura Gasaki Station”

If you are looking for tour guide of this hiking course please refer to the following.

Private Hiking tour in Kamakura Daibutsu Hiking Course

Kita-Kamakura Ten-en Hiking Couse

What is Ten-en Hiking trail?

How about Kamakura hiking for only 1 hour by train from Tokyo?
Once serving as a holy trail for Shugendou priests, the Ten-en hiking trail along the so-called Kamakura Alps with its highest point Ohhirayama, 159.2meters(about 522 feet) above sea level, is the most popular hiking trail in Kamakura.
Hiker will be able to enjoy a view of Sagami Bay and Mt.Fuji, and visit cave tombs and other historic spots along the hiking trail that about 5.5 kilometers or 3.4 miles stretching from Imaizumidai to Zuisenji.
The hiking route is accessible from several point: Hansobo 半蔵坊 on the premises of the Kenchoji Tenple(an admission fee of 300yen required to enter the tenple), the trail exit near Zuisenji.
It will take two to three hours to enjoy the hiking trail.

Tenen Hiking Course ~ Okuzashiki of Kencho-ji Temple, To Hansobou

Here we will guide the trail in the direction heading from the Kenchoji Tenple to the Zuisenji Temple in kamakura.

First off is Kitakamakura station(East Entrance)

area: Kanagawa Prefecture South of Tokyo Genre: Hiking LEVEL： Beginner Traveling time (not including breaks): 2 hours 30 minutes Distance： About 7km Maximum elevation difference： 100m Access： JR Yokosuka Line「北鎌倉駅 Kitakamakura station」 Return： JR Yokosuka Line「鎌倉駅 Kamakura station」

Before Kitami Kamakura Station, it is a famous scenic temple”Enkakuji Temple”.

Kenzoji Temple
In addition, although it is natural, since the Tianyuan hiking course passes through the precincts of Kenchoji temple, an admission fee is required. (Pay 300 yen)

When going to the direction length of Kencho-ji and passing too far, it becomes small diameter. It is a Hanzoubou road leading from here to Hanzoubou.

They are Hanzoubou Tengu! The Hanzoubou shrine is coming soon.

Well, once you pass through the Hanzoubou, you enter the real mountain road. It is about 5 minutes from here to the winning dedicated observation deck. And about 2 hours to Zuisen temple.

Let’s follow the signs of Tenen-Hiking course.

I will advance the violent path of up / down.

My mood is Indy Jones!

The destination zuisen temple is 3.2km away.
There are narrowing, undulations, and quite a walking response.
Let’s enjoy a trail like a sense of athletics!
Finally arrived. Go through the mountain road that continued from Hanzoubou to the top of Mt. Oohira! Ten-En is a sighty square.

You can purchase beer, soft drinks and snacks at the Ten-En resting place, if it openned.

After walking for about an hour the mountain path will end.
It is Zuisenji temple right after exiting the road from the mountain road.an admission fee is required. (Pay 200 yen)

It is almost like a Japanese garden on the moon of Zuisenji Tenple.

It is Kamakuraguu as he goes down the road for a while from Zuisen temple.
Apart from Kamakuraguu, there are many temples around here.
After walking for a while, the most famous Tutuokahachimanguu in Kamakura appears.

There are many restaurants and souvenir shops around Tutuokahachimanguu.
We toast with German beer and sausage shop “Chouzume Ya”.

The road that leads from Tutuokahachimanguu to Kamakura station is called “Komachi Street”, and many shops and shops line up.It is a popular Matcha ice cream shop “Kamakura Chacha”.
You can choose the concentration of Matcha in your choice.

Eating out to Kamakura station is fun!

I arrived at Kamakura Station. Congratulations!

Do you need a guide for this hiking course?

If you are looking for guide of this hiking course, please refer to the following.

Kamakura’s Tenen Hiking Trail Private Tour