Kamakura

That rule ended in 1333. Nitta Yoshisada, marching for Emperor Go-Daigo, found the passes into Kamakura held against him, so he led his men along the beach at low tide around the cape of Inamuragasaki and broke into the city; the last regent, Hōjō Takatoki, and hundreds of his followers killed themselves at their family temple. The Ashikaga kept Kamakura as the seat of their governor of the Kantō, the kantō kubō, but the kubō quarrelled with Kyoto and with their own Uesugi deputies until, in 1455, Ashikaga Shigeuji abandoned the city for Koga.

Without its rulers Kamakura dwindled into a town of temples. Storms brought down the hall of the Great Buddha in 1334 and 1369, and after the tsunami of 1498 the statue sat in the open air. Tsurugaoka Hachimangū burned in the wars with the Satomi of Awa and was rebuilt by the Later Hōjō of Odawara. Under the Tokugawa the old capital found a new role, as a stop for the townsfolk of Edo on their pilgrimages to Ōyama and Enoshima.