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Kamakura, Hase-dera for couples: sunset and golden hour by date
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Times are Kamakura local time (Asia/Tokyo), worked out from the sun’s position for this place (the NOAA method), good to about a minute on a flat horizon. Golden hour is the last hour before sunset; blue hour runs from sunset to the end of civil twilight.
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free, before you go
Rain-dark stone steps, two thousand hydrangeas, and Yuigahama Bay slowly opening up in the gaps between them.
In the reel: A couple, she in a pink yukata under a red paper umbrella, climbs rain-wet stone steps at Hase-dera between lantern-lit hydrangeas, the lit seaside town below under a full moon.
Hase-dera is at 3-11-2 Hase, a 5-minute walk from Enoden Hase Station, and its Hydrangea Path really does frame Yuigahama Bay. But in hydrangea season the gates close at 17:30, and the only night opening is the late-autumn illumination, so the drawn frame splits in two: June hydrangeas by day plus blue hour by the sea, or lantern-lit steps under a November moon. We found no pagoda here; that part is the illustrator's.
When to go
Late May to late June for hydrangeas (the paid path period ran 6–26 June in 2025 and opened 5 June in 2026). Late November to early December for the night illumination (22 Nov–7 Dec in 2025; the temple posts each season's dates on hasedera.jp).
The hour: Book the 08:00 slot for the path in soft, overcast rainy-season light. At Yuigahama the sun sets at 18:59 on 19 June 2027 and blue hour runs 18:59–19:29 (our own calculation). The full moon is Sat 19 June 2027, rising in the east-southeast over Sagami Bay about the time the sun sets (our own calculation).
Avoid: Expecting night hydrangeas: last entry is 17:00 from April to June. Late-morning slots at peak bloom, when the path fills.
Kamakura, month by month
The 15th of each month, local time.
| date | sunrise | golden hour | sunset | blue hour ends |
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| Oct 2026 | 05:47 | 16:07 | 17:07 | 17:32 |
| Nov 2026 | 06:16 | 15:35 | 16:35 | 17:02 |
| Dec 2026 | 06:42 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 16:58 |
| Jan 2027 | 06:50 | 15:51 | 16:51 | 17:19 |
| Feb 2027 | 06:28 | 16:23 | 17:23 | 17:49 |
| Mar 2027 | 05:53 | 16:48 | 17:48 | 18:14 |
| Apr 2027 | 05:10 | 17:14 | 18:14 | 18:40 |
| May 2027 | 04:38 | 17:38 | 18:38 | 19:06 |
| Jun 2027 | 04:26 | 17:58 | 18:58 | 19:27 |
| Jul 2027 | 04:37 | 17:57 | 18:57 | 19:26 |
| Aug 2027 | 05:00 | 17:31 | 18:31 | 18:58 |
| Sep 2027 | 05:24 | 16:49 | 17:49 | 18:15 |
the hour, every week
the weekly note: one place and its hour, one story, one tip. a tap in the first mail confirms it.