We were taking the train outside of Tokyo and went for an
hour ride towards Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture. Kanagawa is a prefecture
located in southern Kantō region of Japan.
For anyone who is interested in my post here, Kantō
region is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. The
region includes the Greater Tokyo Area and encompasses seven prefectures:
Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, and Kanagawa. Within its
boundaries, slightly more than 45 percent of the land area is the Kantō Plain.
The rest consists of the hills and mountains that form the land borders. In
official census by the Japan Statistics Bureau, the population amounting to
approximately one third of the total population of Japan.
Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area. Kanagawa
Prefecture is home to Kamakura and Hakone, two highly popular side trip
destinations from Tokyo.
