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ENOSHIMA
Enoshima Island known as simply Enoshima is a small island along the resort style coast of Shonan. Enoshima is close to Tokyo and Yokohama.
Enoshima Island (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. It is also
located close to the famous sites of Kamakura
including
the Great
Buddha.
Benzaiten, the goddess of music and entertainment, is enshrined on the
island. The island in its entirety is dedicated to the goddess, who is said
to have made it rise from the bottom of the sea in sixth century. Enoshima
is the center of Shonan, 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 Kōkei in 1047 AD.
In 1880, after the Shinto and Buddhism separation order of the new Meiji
government had made the land available, much of the uplands was purchased by
Samuel Cocking, 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, the botanical garden (now Samuel Cocking Garden)
remains an attraction with over half a million visitors a year.
Enoshima is served by three railway stations: Katase-Enoshima Station on the
Odakyū Enoshima Line, Enoshima Station on the Enoshima Electric Railway, and
Shonan Enoshima Station on the Shonan Monorail.
(Article based on Wikipedia article and used under the GNU Free Documentation License)
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