Enoshima

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Enoshima

Enoshima is a small island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls are called islets....
, about 4 km in circumference, at the mouth of the Katase River

Katase River

The is a segment of a river in Shonan, central Japan, about 50 kilometers southwest of Tokyo.The Katase is an approximately 3-kilometer-long segment of the river from Kawana , Fujisawa, where the Sakai River and Kashio River join, to a point at Enoshima Island, where the river flows into Sagami Bay....
, which flows into Sagami Bay

Sagami Bay

Sagami Bay , also known as the Sagami Gulf or Sagami Sea, lies south of Kanagawa Prefecture in Honshu, central Japan, contained within the scope of the Miura Peninsula, in Kanagawa, to the east, the Izu Peninsula, in Shizuoka Prefecture, to the west, and the Shonan coastline to the north, while the island of Oshima marks the sout...
in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. Part of the city of Fujisawa

Fujisawa, Kanagawa

is a cities of Japan located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.As of 2005, the city has an estimated population of 394,990 and the population density of 5,682.49 persons per km?....
, it is linked to the Katase section of the same city on the mainland by a 600 meter-long bridge. Adjacent to the closest beach to Tokyo

Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
and Yokohama

Yokohama

is the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kanto region of the main island of Honshu. It is a major commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area....
, the island and the nearby coast are the hub of a popular resort area.

Benzaiten

Benzaiten

Benzaiten is the Japanese language name for the Hinduism goddess Saraswati; there was an important river in ancient India of this name . Worship of Benzaiten arrived in Japan during the 6th through 8th centuries, mainly via the Chinese language translations of the Sutra of Golden Light, which has a section devoted to her....
, the goddess of music and entertainment, is enshrined on the island.

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Enoshima is a small island

Island

Katase River

Sagami Bay

Japan

Fujisawa, Kanagawa

Tokyo

Yokohama

Benzaiten

Shonan

Shonan is the name of a resort-oriented region along the coast of Sagami Bay in central Japan. Centered on Enoshima, an island about 50 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, the Shonan region stretches from Oiso, Kanagawa in the west to Hayama, Kanagawa in the east, including Kamakura, Kanagawa and Hiratsuka, Kanagawa ....
, a resort area along the coast of Sagami Bay known for its scenic beauty.

The island is the scene of the Enoshima Engi
Enoshima Engi

The Enoshima Engi is a history of the temples and shrines on Enoshima Island in Sagami Bay. It was written in Chinese language, the scholarly language of the time, by the Japanese Buddhist monk Kokei in 1047 A.D....
, a history of the shrines on Enoshima written by the Japanese Buddhist monk Kokei

Kokei

Kokei , the author of the Enoshima Engi, was an eminent Japanese Buddhist monk. He is said to have commenced his career as a monk at the age of seven, when he climbed Mt....
in 1047 AD.

In 1880, after the Shinto and Buddhism separation order

Shinbutsu Bunri

File:Turu daitoz.jpgThe tendency to oppose Buddhism can be seen already during the early modern era as a nationalistic reaction to its spreading but the term usually indicates the anti-Buddhist movement that, from the middle of the Edo period onwards, accompanied Confucianism, the study of ancient Japanese literature and culture , and Shinto nat...
of the new Meiji government

Government of Meiji Japan

The Government of Meiji period Japan from 1868-1911 was an evolution of institutions and structures from the feudal order of the Tokugawa bakufu towards a constitutional monarchy encompassing pro-forma representative democracy....
had made the land available, much of the uplands was purchased by Samuel Cocking

Samuel Cocking

Samuel Cocking was a British trader in Yokohama arriving in 1869, shortly after the Matthew Perry #The Opening of Japan: 1852-1854. He is most famous for the large greenhouse and gardens that he developed in Enoshima....
, a British merchant, in his Japanese wife's name. He developed a power plant and extensive botanical gardens including a very large greenhouse. Although the original greenhouse was destroyed in the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake

1923 Great Kanto earthquake

The struck the Kanto plain on the Japanese main island of Honshu at 11:58 on the morning of September 1, 1923. Varied accounts hold that the duration of the earthquake was between 4 and 10 minutes....
, the botanical garden (now Samuel Cocking Garden

Samuel Cocking Garden

The Samuel Cocking Garden. also known as the Enoshima Tropical Plants Garden, is a small botanical garden on the small island of Enoshima in Japan....
) remains an attraction with over half a million visitors a year.

Transportation

Enoshima is served by three railway stations: Katase-Enoshima Station

Katase-Enoshima Station

Katase-Enoshima Station is the southern Train station of the Odakyu Enoshima Line of the Odakyu Electric Railway. It's also within walking distance the Enoshima Station of Enoshima Electric Railway ....
on the Odakyu Enoshima Line

Odakyu Enoshima Line

|}The is a long branch line operated by the Japanese private railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture. The Enoshima Line branches from the Odakyu Odawara Line at Sagami-Ono Station, extending south to Fujisawa Station and Katase-Enoshima Station, a distance of 27.6 km....
, Enoshima Station

Enoshima Station

is a train station located in southern Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. This line runs on the road between this station and Koshigoe Station....
on the Enoshima Electric Railway

Enoshima Electric Railway

The connects Kamakura Station in Kamakura, Kanagawa, with Fujisawa Station in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Stations en route include Hase Station , the stop closest to Kotoku-in, the temple with the colossal outdoor statue of Amitabha....
, and Shonan Enoshima Station on the Shonan Monorail

Shonan Monorail

The is a suspended SAFEGE monorail located in the cities of Kamakura, Kanagawa and Fujisawa, Kanagawa in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the , the line opened March 7 1970, and was the first monorail of its kind in Japan....
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