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• Akada Footbridge (赤田歩道橋) It stands on the Shin-Yokohama Motoishikawa, a short way south of Azamino Station. Yamauchi Library is 650 m to the north.
• Chigasaki City Library (茅ヶ崎市立図書館) Chigasaki's city library. A poster signed by the voice actors was put on display inside.
• Chōjagasaki (長者ヶ崎) In summer the car park costs 2,200 yen, and after closing time you cannot get out until morning.
• Cupnoodles Museum Yokohama You can design your own cup noodle from 5,460 combinations of soup and ingredients.
• Daibutsu Trail (大仏ハイキングコース) Three kilometres of woodland to the Great Buddha, closed by the typhoon until 2020.
• Engaku-ji (円覚寺) Its Shariden is the only building in Kanagawa declared a National Treasure.
• Enoden, the Enoshima Electric Railway (江ノ島電鉄) Ten kilometres right up against the houses: in some stretches the track is the pavement.
• Enoshima Aquarium (新江ノ島水族館) The deep-sea section was made with JAMSTEC, the oceanographic institute.
• Enoshima Caves (岩屋) You visit with a candle in your hand: the first cave is 152 metres deep.
• Enoshima Jinja Legend has it that the island was born of an earthquake in 552, in just ten days.
• Fujiko F. Fujio Museum It holds 50,000 original Doraemon drawings by the artist who lived here from 1961.
• Gōra Onsen It was born in 1919 for the Tokyo elite, when the mountain railway reached it.
• Gōra Park Opened in 1914, it is Japan's first geometric French-style garden, on a slope.
• Goryō Shrine, known as Gongorō (御霊神社) On 18 September the procession of the ten masks comes out; no photography in the grounds.
• Great Buddha of Kamakura (鎌倉大仏) For 50 yen more you can go up inside the bronze: the statue is hollow and can be visited.
• Gumyōji Park Viewpoint (弘明寺公園展望台) On a hill in the Minami district: from the top you can see the Yokohama basin as far as the towers of Minato Mirai.
• Hakone Mountain Railway At three switchbacks the train reverses direction, on an 80‰ gradient, a record for adhesion.
• Hakone Old Tōkaidō Cedar Avenue Planted in 1618 by order of the shogunate: some of the cedars are now over 350 years old.
• Hakone Open-Air Museum Opened in 1969, Japan's first open-air museum: 120 sculptures across 70,000 m².
• Hakone Ropeway Each cabin has 18 seats and one leaves every 45 seconds, along 4,028 metres of cable.
• Hakone Shrine The torii in Lake Ashi was put up in 1952 to mark the end of the Allied occupation.
• Hakone-Yumoto Onsen It is the oldest of Hakone's 17 hot springs, discovered, according to tradition, in 738.
• Harbor View Park (港の見える丘公園) A park on the Yamate hill.
• Hase-dera The Kannon statue, 9.18 metres tall, is the largest wooden sculpture in Japan.
• Hatajuku Craft Village Two hundred years ago yosegi marquetry arrived here: no dye, only the colours of the wood.
• Hayama Shiosai Park (葉山しおさい公園) It was land belonging to the imperial villa, and the museum displays the emperor's shells.
• Hikage Chaya (日影茶屋) You eat inside two buildings that became Registered Tangible Cultural Properties in 2011.
• Hiratsuka Grand Tanabata Festival One of the three biggest Tanabata festivals in Japan, with decorations over 10 metres.
• Hodogaya Catholic Church (保土ヶ谷カトリック教会) The Catholic church of Hodogaya, in Yokohama.
• Hōkoku-ji, the bamboo temple (報国寺) Two thousand bamboos, and you drink your tea inside the grove: last order at 15:30.
• Honmoku Pier and Port Symbol Tower (本牧ふ頭・横浜港シンボルタワー) The pier itself is a closed port area, but next to it stands the Yokohama Port Symbol Tower, with a park and an observation deck from which…
• Hoshikawa Station (星川駅) A station on the Sōtetsu line, in Yokohama. It is not Kami-Hoshikawa (上星川駅), which is a different station.
• Ichijō Ekan Villa (一条恵観山荘) Built in Kyoto in 1646 for a prince, and brought here piece by piece in 1959.
• Inamuragasaki (稲村ヶ崎) The wartime cave emplacements remain on the cliff; below, Enoshima and Mount Fuji.
• Ishigakiyama Castle Ruins Hideyoshi made it look as if it had been built in one night: in reality it took eighty days.
• Isshiki Beach (一色海岸) — Hayama In 2013 CNN put it among the hundred best beaches in the world: a kilometre of sand.
• Jinmu-ji (神武寺) Founded in 724, it stands in thirteen hectares of woodland; you do not enter the hall without asking.
• Jōgashima Lighthouse The first lighthouse, by the Frenchman Verny in 1870, collapsed in 1923 and was rebuilt to a different design.
• Kamakura Bunkakan Tsurugaoka Museum (鎌倉文華館 鶴岡ミュージアム) Sakakura's 1951 building was Japan's first public museum of modern art.
• Kamakura Farmers' Market, the Renbai (鎌倉市農協連即売所) Open since 1928, it opens at 8:00 and closes when it has finished: twenty-three farms take turns.
• Kamakura Museum of History and Culture (鎌倉歴史文化交流館) A villa by Norman Foster's studio, closed on Sundays and public holidays.
• Kamakurakōkōmae Level Crossing (鎌倉高校前1号踏切) It is the same crossing as in the Slam Dunk opening sequence, one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in Japan.
• Kanagawa Museum of Modern Art, Hayama (神奈川県立近代美術館 葉山館) The sculpture garden, library and restaurant can be used without a ticket.
• Kanagawa Museum of Natural History (生命の星・地球博物館) Ten thousand specimens, from dinosaurs to insects, spanning 4.6 billion years of history.
• Kenchō-ji (建長寺) You pay for a ticket even if you only go in for the trail: the Ten'en starts in here.
• Komachi-dori In a few hundred metres, 250 shops: the power cables have only been underground since 2013.
• Kōmayama Park (Shōnandaira) From the observation tower you can see the sea, Enoshima and, on clear days, Mount Fuji all at once.
• Kōmyō-ji (光明寺) It opens at six in the morning, and from 15 October at seven: no other temple does this.
• Koshigoe Beach (腰越海水浴場) A Kamakura beach along the Enoden line. The marker is on the 腰越海岸 point of National Route 134, the access to the beach.
• Koshigoe Fishing Harbour (腰越漁港) Shirasu is caught from 11 March: from 1 January to 10 March there is no raw shirasu.
• Kozu Beach (国府津海岸) A stretch of coast under the viaduct of the Seishō Bypass, five minutes' walk from Kōzu Station.
• Lake Ashi (芦ノ湖) — Hakone 724 m above sea level, 43.5 deep: it was made by a landslide that blocked a river, 3,100 years ago.
• Meigetsu-in, the hydrangea temple (明月院) The round window looks onto a garden that opens twice a year, in June and in November.
• MEN YARD FIGHT — Yokohama ramen Ramen in Kanagawa Ward, Yokohama.
• Misaki Port Between 400 and 1,000 fish a day pass through the frozen tuna market, all year round.
• Miyakobashi Building, Noge Built in 1964 for the Olympics, it now has 60 venues overlooking the river.
• Morito Beach (森戸海岸) The market is every Sunday from 8:30; the fireworks are on 25 July at 19:30.
• Morito Daimyōjin (森戸神社) The red torii stands on a rock seven hundred metres from the shore.
• Motomachi Shopping Street It began in 1860, when ninety families were moved to make room for foreigners.
• Nagoe Pass and the Mandara-dō yagura (名越切通・まんだら堂やぐら群) The rock-cut tombs can only be seen twice a year, and only from Saturday to Monday.
• Nakaya Supermarket, Zama (新鮮市場なかや座間入谷店) A neighbourhood supermarket in Zama, in the Iriya area. The drama's exterior filming is concentrated in Kanagawa, between Zama and…
• Nebukawa Station (根府川駅) The only unstaffed station on the Tōkaidō Line, overlooking the sea. In the station forecourt there is a monument to the victims of the…
• Nihon Minka-en 25 traditional houses, all of them cultural properties, moved here from all over Japan.
• Ocean Gate Minato Mirai (オーシャンゲートみなとみらい) An office complex at Minato Mirai 3-7-1.
• Odawara Castle In 1590 it held out for a hundred days against a siege by 180,000 men: it fell only by surrender.
• Ōfuna Kannon (大船観音寺) A twenty-five-metre bust, finished in 1960, and you can go inside the statue.
• Ōwakudani (大涌谷) — Hakone You can only walk among the vents with a guide: 700 m, four slots, 30 places, 800 yen.
• Ōyama Afuri Jinja (lower shrine) The Ōyama-mairi, an Edo-period pilgrimage, is now Japan Heritage.
• Ryūkō-ji (龍口寺) Its 1910 pagoda is the only wooden five-storey pagoda in the whole of Kanagawa.
• Samuel Cocking Garden and Sea Candle (江の島サムエル・コッキング苑) The garden is free until five; after that you pay, and that is when they light it up.
• Sankeien Hara Sankei moved 17 historic buildings here: ten are Important Cultural Properties.
• Sarushima A late nineteenth-century brick fortress, closed to the public until the end of the war.
• Sasuke Inari Shrine (佐助稲荷神社) Forty-nine torii in a row in the woods, and at the top thousands of porcelain foxes.
• Shasui Falls It falls in three drops, 69+16+29 metres: a monk trained here for a hundred days in the thirteenth century.
• Shichirigahama Beach (七里ヶ浜) The water is 24 degrees in summer and 12 in winter; the waves here are for beginners.
• Shichirigahama Station (七里ヶ浜駅) An Enoden station on the Kamakura coast.
• Shōnan Monorail (湘南モノレール) It hangs below the beam, and its 1970 tunnel was the first of its kind in the world.
• Sugimoto-dera (杉本寺) The oldest temple in Kamakura, from 734; the moss staircase, however, is closed.
• Suzuhiro Kamaboko Museum A business active for 150 years: you knead your own kamaboko by hand in the real workshop.
• Ten'en Trail (天園ハイキングコース) Four kilometres of ridge up to 159-metre Ōhirayama, the top of Kamakura.
• Tōkei-ji (東慶寺) The temple where a wife could obtain a divorce: the oldest petition dates from 1738.
• Tōnosawa Onsen Discovered in 1605, it is the oldest of the springs developed along the Haya River.
• Tsurugaoka Hachimangu The thousand-year-old ginkgo fell in 2010: an 8-metre trunk has already grown back from its base.
• Utsukushigaoka Nishi 1-chōme Junction (美しが丘西一丁目交差点) A hilly residential area between Tamaplaza and Azamino.
• Yamashita Park (山下公園) A seafront park in Yokohama, with the museum ship Hikawa Maru moored in front.
• Yamauchi Library (山内図書館) City library inside the community centre of the Yamauchi neighbourhood, in Azamino. 650 m to the south is the Akada footbridge.
• Yokohama Chinatown (横浜中華街) More than five hundred signs in twenty hectares, and almost all of them have a kitchen behind them.
• Yokohama Commonwealth War Cemetery Buried here are 1,800 Commonwealth soldiers who died as prisoners in Japan.
• Yokohama International Swimming Pool (横浜国際プール) A swimming facility in Kitayamata, in Tsuzuki Ward.
• Yokohama Landmark Tower The fastest lift in Japan climbs to the 69th floor in 40 seconds, at 273 metres.
• Yokohama Minato Mirai (みなとみらい) A Mitsubishi shipyard until 1983: today, 186 hectares and 140,000 people who work there.
• Yokohama Ōsanbashi Pier (横浜港大さん橋) A cruise terminal with an undulating wooden deck. Yamashita Park is 500 m away.
• Yokohama Red Warehouses It started out as a customs warehouse in 1911, built with the most advanced technique of the time.
• Yokohama Suiran High School (神奈川県立横浜翠嵐高等学校) One of the most selective public high schools in Kanagawa. It is in Mitsuzawa, in Kanagawa Ward, not in Aoba, where the rest of the story…
• Yugawara Onsen It is the only hot spring in eastern Japan mentioned in the Man'yōshū, the oldest anthology.
• Zeniarai Benten (Ugafuku Shrine) For 700 years, people who wash their coins in the cave have believed they will come back multiplied.
• Zuisen-ji (瑞泉寺) Musō Soseki's garden is the only one from the Kamakura period still in existence, and it is carved rock.
• Zushi Beach (逗子海岸) Since 2014, no alcohol or music on the beach: the number of beachgoers has halved.

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