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, Island Enoshima]] Enoshima (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 . Benzaiten , the goddess of music and entertainment, is also enshrined on the island. 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 Kokei in 1047 AD . In 1880 after the 'Abolish The Buddha. Destroy Sakyamuni' Policy 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 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 Odakyu Enoshima Line of the Odakyu Electric Railway , Enoshima Station on the Enoshima Electric Railway and Shonan Enoshima Station on the Shonan Monorail . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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