Kanagawa · Updated: 2026-09-27
Around Hase Station (長谷駅) in Kamakura there are six walking spots, ranging from a set-meal diner and cafés to bookshops, a gallery and a memorial hall. Five of them are a 3-minute walk from Hase Station, and the remaining one, the Yoshiya Nobuko Memorial Hall, is a 3-minute walk from Yuigahama Station (由比ヶ浜駅). Food, sweets, books and art sit inside one small area, so half a day is enough to link all six on foot.
This guide covers 6 walking spots; 6 of them are an average 3-minute walk from the nearest station (3–3 min).
Counted from zorozoro listings when this page was generated. Walking minutes are estimates: straight-line distance to the nearest station × 1.3, at 80 m per minute.
Start with breakfast at Teishokuya Shamoji, which opens at 09:00, the earliest of the six. Then work in something sweet at TEMPLE and Bergfeld Hase before Books&Gallery Umi to Hon and OFF SESSION Gallery&Books open at 13:00. Those two share the third floor of the same Tsutaya Building, so one staircase gets you both. Finish by walking on toward Yuigahama Station to the Yoshiya Nobuko Memorial Hall, which turns the route into a walk between two stations.
A set-meal restaurant in Hase that opened in 2012, where you can add a topping of raw shirasu (whitebait). It is a 3-minute walk from Hase Station and open Monday to Saturday, 09:00–19:00, closed on Sundays. At 09:00 it opens earliest of the six spots, which makes it easy to fit in before you start walking.
A café in Hase marked by its pink exterior, with around eight kinds of vegan-friendly house-made doughnuts on the counter. It is a 3-minute walk from Hase Station, open 10:00–17:00 and closed on Thursdays. If you are walking Hase on a Thursday, plan around this one being shut.
A German pastry shop a 3-minute walk from Hase Station, open 11:00–17:00 every day; in July and August it closes on Mondays and Tuesdays, and from September onward it has no regular closing day. It also serves a summer-only Sri Lankan curry set (June to September each year) that comes with a salad and a drink, so on a summer walk lunch at a pastry shop becomes an option.
A bookshop and gallery on the third floor of the Tsutaya Building, stocked with books on the theme of the sea. It is a 3-minute walk from Hase Station, open Wednesday to Friday and Sunday, 13:00–17:00, and closed on Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays. After walking a seaside town, you can switch straight into reading about the sea.
A gallery and bookshop in the same building as Umi to Hon, handling art books. It is a 3-minute walk from Hase Station, open Wednesday to Sunday, 13:00–18:00, and closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. It stays open an hour later than Umi to Hon, until 18:00, so visiting it second leaves you more time.
A memorial hall that opens the former residence of the writer Yoshiya Nobuko to visitors; the house was designed by Isoya Yoshida (吉田五十八). Open days for the general public are held each spring and autumn, with details published on the Kamakura City website, and enquiries go to the Lifelong Learning Division of the Kamakura City Board of Education. It is a 3-minute walk from Yuigahama Station, closed on Mondays and public holidays (when a Monday is a holiday, the following day is closed too) and over the New Year period.
Which shops are open shifts by the day of the week here. The two shops in the Tsutaya Building close on Mondays and Tuesdays (Umi to Hon also closes on Saturdays), TEMPLE closes on Thursdays, and Teishokuya Shamoji closes on Sundays. Five of the six line up on Wednesdays and Fridays, so aim for those days if you want to cover the area in one walk.