day trip to Kamakura

Here we are standing in front of Amita-Buddha, a.k.a. Daibutsu, the second-largest Buddha statue in Japan. It used to live inside a temple, but that structure was swept away by a tsunami in 1498, so it's been an outdoor attraction ever since. It was cast in bronze in 1252, so that makes it (hmmm...) 756 years old.

We took the train to Kita-Kamakura, about an hour southwest of Tokyo, and from there hiked for about two hours to reach this point, stopping at several other sights along the way...which I will have to write about some other day...