The Enoden links Fujisawa & Kamakura via a coastal route that gives both those cities access to the little island of Enoshima – hence the name. It’s a charming, old-fashioned trainline, with some really interesting sights to be seen along the way.

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Local Sights

The park down by the ocean is about all there is to see, really.

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All About EN10 Inamuragasaki Station

This is an interesting post (for me at any rate) some of the pictures here are from a visit to Inamuragasaki in March 2020, when I assumed I’d be leaving Japan in April of that year. Before … well, you know. All those things happened.

A fair few of the pics in the gallery below then come from a simpler time when I wasn’t going to be around long enough to visit every station on the Enoden. When I took the notion to cycle down to this chilled little beach, watch the waves, enjoy the spring sun & just sit with my thoughts (of which I had plenty owing to the whole moving countries but also perhaps because of the pandemic just starting to take hold.)

The main draw of Inamuragasaki is really, as with so many of the other stations on this part of the Enoden, the beautiful views of Enoshima.

But there’s a lot of history in the area, mostly communicated through monuments.

Once you make it down to the ocean, there’s a small park where General Nitta entered Kamakura back in 1333. A marker at the entrance tells you a bit about this.

Up the stairs at the top of the cape, you can find a monument to Robert Koch, legendary bacteriologist & all around top bloke.

Down back the hill, and overlooking the sea, is a statue that tells a much more sombre tale – a tribute to the twelve students who died in 1910, when their boat capsized during a sailing exercise.

Twelve students actually drowned that day, all of them from Zushi Kaisei Junior High School (逗子開成). High waves capsized their boat on their return to Zushi from a training session near Enoshima Island. The day had been cold with a strong westerly wind that strengthened towards afternoon. The students and one elementary school child were aboard a cutter and desperately tried to return to land, but off the coast of the Yukiaigawa River (行合川) the boat capsized. Later on the same day, a fishing boat found one boy drifting but alive, although he died soon after. The others were found dead over the next few days, among them a student holding his younger brother tightly in his arms.

     The monument represents his desperate efforts to save him. The twelve bodies were brought to their school, where a funeral service was held. A song in their memory, Mashiroki Fuji no Ne (真白き富士の嶺), composed by Ms. Misumi Suzuko (三角錫子), a teacher at Kamakura Jogakko　(now Kamakura Jogakuin Junior-Senior High School, 鎌倉女学院), is still remembered and sung by many people.

from KAMAKURA : HISTORY & HISTORICAL SITES

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EN10 Inamuragasaki Station Gallery

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