【Date Visited】9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. of Wednesday June 14,2017

Photos and movie are taken by iPhone.

I went to Meigetsuin temple to see the beautiful and popular scenery of hydrangea.
Kamakura is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture,once it was a political capital along with Nara and Kyoto.
It makes an easy day trip from Tokyo.
Meigetusin temple was founded in 1160 A.D.

When I arrived Meigetsuin at 7:30 a.m. (one hour prior to the opening time), people already made queues!
But according to the staff near there, the most earliest person arrived at 7:00.

But when I came here yesterday on 8:30, the line was more longer!

This is an entrance of this temple.

A pathway leads you to the entrance gate.
There are three ticket counter on the right and left side.

Usually only this gate is opened.
The other one is opened only when the tourist season.

Go straight from the gate, then you can go to this place where many tourists take pictures.

This place is very famous photo spot for this scenery.
If you want to take a picturesque photo, you have go to the head of the line between 8:30 ～ 8:35.
I held my iPhone little lower than the eyes, then tapped the shutter button with 3 ～ 3.5 times zoom.

If you miss the best timing, people come into the path one after another.

Finally it was filled with people soon.

Then I moved to the other popular photo spot quickly.
Because it would be crowded soon.
This is the main hall (Hojo).
The view of garden through a round window is very famous.
People already made queues when I got there.
It became more longer as time passed.

When it comes to weekend, it becomes more and more longer!

I couldn’t take much time to shoot pictures because many people were waiting behind me.
So during the waiting time I considered many compositions.

I took picture by iPhone without zoom.

Double zoom.
Looks nice.But it wasn’t great.

So I moved to the left a little and got on one knee.
Then I tapped the shutter button with 3 ～ 3.5 times zoom.
This one is excellent!!
But people at inner garden was eyesore.
So I retouched inside the round window by the application of iPhone Enlight.
This app is owesome!
I can do whatever edit I want to .

After finished shooting photo, I went to the inner garden.
This is the entrance.
I can enter into it for a limited time in the season of hydrangea or autumn leaves.

Ticket counter.
It costs 500 yen for 1 adult.

Round window of the main hall could be seen from the opposite side.

Iris was fully bloomed.

Blue and red Jizo statue with iris.

Went out from inner garden and I looked around other places.
There were Jizo statue with hydrangea here and there.

This temple is famous for its beautiful blue hydrangea.
That’s because Jizo statue wears a blue cloth.

Besides the blue one, they had many kinds of hydrangea.

Bamboo forest and hydrangea was also beautiful!

When I went back to Kita Kamakura station, I found it was very crowded with people.
They made a long line to go out from platform because the exit gate was too narrow.
If you want to get off at Kita Kamakura station in the tourist season, you should get on the first car toward the direction that the train is heading.
Then you can go to the ticket gate faster than anyone and exit quickly.