Enoshima
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Enoshima (江の島) is a small island, about 4 km in circumference, at the mouth of the Katase River, which flows into Sagami Bay in Japan. Part of the city of Fujisawa, 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 and Yokohama, the island and the nearby coast are the hub of a popular resort area.
Benzaiten, the goddess of music and entertainment, is also enshrined on the island. Enoshima is the center of Shonan (湘南), a resort area along the coast of Sagami Bay known for its scenic beauty.
The island is the scene of the Enoshima Engi, a history of the shrines on Enoshima written by the Japanese Buddhist monk Kokei in 1047 AD.
Katase-Enoshima Station on the Odakyu Enoshima Line of the Odakyu Electric Railway and on the Enoshima Electric Railway serves Katase and Enoshima. Template:Japan-geo-stub
External links
- Photos of Enoshima at photoguide.jp (http://photoguide.jp/pix/index.php?cat=36) in English
- Wikitravel: Enoshima (http://wikitravel.org/en/article/Enoshima)