【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.

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.
My biggest purpose for me was to shoot this.
But it was impossible as it was very crowded with many people.

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 a queue when I got there.
It became more longer as time passed.
Besides in the holiday, 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 is owesome!
I can do whatever I want to by this app.

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!

【Date Visited】9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.of 8 December 2016

I went to Meigetsuin temple to see the autumn leaves.

Meigetsuin temple was founded in 14th century.
It is famous for the beautiful scenery of hydrangeas.

But the scenery of autumn leaves is excellent,too.

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Bamboo forest and autumn leaves.

Especially the view of garden through a round window of the main hall is popular.
Peak of red leaves had passed when I went there,but still it was so beautiful.
There were few people that made the line to take photo because I went there early in the morning of the weekday.
But in the weekend it will become long queue.

To take picture like this, you need to zoom in.

You can enter the garden for a limited time in the season of autumn leaves.
Round window of the main hall could be seen from the opposite side.

Jizo and autumn leaves.
When you visit Meigetsuin in the autumn leaves season, you should go to this garden because you can see more beautiful autumn leaves.