Kamakura

Spent the day in Kamakura, a city known as "Little Kyoto" because there are so many temples and shrines.

Tokeiji temple was founded in 1285 by a nun named Kokusan. In those days a woman did not have the right to seek a divorce. But in the temple women could live for 3 calendar years and then obtain a divorce. Tokeiji is nicknamed the Divorce Temple. The joke in the town is that if a woman is running in town she must running from her husband and she is kindly directed to the temple... In 1873 the temple law was adopted by the national court of justice.

Next was Jochiji Temple with its celebrated nectar well and wooden Buddha statues of past, present and future. The trail that winds through the cyprus forest that leads to a special cave. If you are brave enough, the cave leads to happiness...