After a busy business week in Tokyo, my German colleagues, Andreas Luengen, Volkmar Tietz and I decided to spend Saturday in the town of Kamakura. Neither Andreas nor Volkmar had ever been in Japan before, so I considered it my responsibility to show them around…. For me, it was probably the third or fourth visit to Kamakura, but this time, I wanted to see any places or have any experiences that I missed during previous trips there. One of my old guidebooks recommended taking the Odakyu Line from Shinjuku to the town of Fujisawa, and from there, taking the old electric tram with the official name of Eno-Den Line through picturesque neighborhoods and along the coast line into the Hasen Station in Kamakura. Hasen Station is the closest one to Daibutsu, the Great Buddha, which
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