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Kamakura

5 (1920 Ratings)
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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About Kamakura

Kamakura is a town in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Although Kamakura right is nowadays as a substitute small, it is often described in records books as a former de facto capital of Japan, the state's maximum populous settlement from 1200 to 1300 AD, because the seat of the shogunate and of the Regency at some stage in the Kamakura period. Kamakura changed into specified as a metropolis on November 3, 1939. As of September 1, 2016, the current town has an anticipated population of 172,302, and a populace density of four,358.77 men and women in step with km2. The general vicinity is 39.53 km2 15.26 squaremi.

As a coastal town with a excessive quantity of seasonal fairs, as well as historical Buddhist and Shinto shrines and temples, Kamakura is a popular vacationer destination inside Japan. The earliest strains of human settlements within the location date lower back as a minimum 10,000 years. Obsidian and stone equipment discovered at excavation websites close to Jōraku-ji were dated to the Old Stone Age between 100,000 and 10,000 years in the past. During the Jomon duration, the sea stage changed into higher than now and all of the flat land in Kamakura up to Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū and, similarly east, up to Yokohama's Totsuka-ku and Sakae-ku become under water.

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