Yokohama Port Shore Excursion to Kamakura - Private Tour

Your ship gives you one day in Yokohama. Kamakura, the 13th-century samurai capital with the Great Buddha, is 45 minutes away by private van – and we know the terminal, the traffic and the all-aboard time.

Your guide meets you with a name board at Osanbashi Pier, Daikoku Pier or Shinko Pier – whichever your ship uses – and the van leaves as soon as you are aboard. In Kamakura we start at Kotoku-in and the Great Buddha, 13 metres of bronze cast in 1252 that has sat in the open since a tsunami took its hall away in 1498; you can go inside it. Then Hase-dera on the hill above, with its eleven-headed golden Kannon, hydrangea steps and a terrace over Sagami Bay.

We drive across town to Hokoku-ji, the bamboo temple, where you drink matcha in a grove of 2,000 bamboo stems, and Tsurugaoka Hachimangu, the great shrine at the head of the city with its long approach. Lunch is on Komachi-dori, the shopping street, or a set meal near the shrine – your guide takes you to a good place, not a tourist canteen.

If the ship’s schedule allows, we finish with the coast road past Enoshima and Yuigahama beach on the way back, or a stop in Yokohama’s Chinatown for a last hour ashore. We return you to the pier at least 90 minutes before the all-aboard time you give us.

What you pay is what you pay

The price is one fixed amount for your whole group: the private van, fuel, tolls, parking and your driver-guide for the day. There are no per-person supplements and no booking fees. Temple entries (about 300-400 yen each) and your lunch are paid by each guest on the day.

Good to know

Tell us your ship, pier and all-aboard time when you book. Kamakura temples involve steps; the Great Buddha and Hachimangu are flat and easy. The same tour works from a Yokohama or Tokyo hotel.