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Yanesen temple district 谷根千 1274 ) An area that was spared the devastating firebombing of Tokyo during WWII.
Kamakura 鎌倉 1185–1333) Japan's first shogunate capital during the failed Mongol invasions, inspiring the term kamikaze, god of wind, adapted after typhoons sunk Kublai Khan's fleet off the shores of Fukuoka on his two attempts in 1274. Far from the Genko war the Samurai class was moving away from the courtly practices to fostering a more egalitarian Buddhism in Kamakura.