We left early on Thursday morning for Kamakura by train. We arrived in Kamakura after about two hours and three transfers.....It was a beautiful day...sunny and warm, but not too hot. We walked from temple to temple, along with crowds of school kids, older Japanese tourists and a very few "gaijin" (foreigners). We have seen so few non-Japanese here (except for on the base of course), that it almost feels like Kenya, without the scaring of small children! We went all day Friday without seeing one foreigner, until we got near to Matt's apartment. The roads were lined with shops and restaurants, but the temple grounds were peaceful and immense, with many old trees. The exception was the Shinto Temple we visited, where the crowds were noisy and and there were stands inside the grounds selling
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