Hase-dera: Hydrangea Season Queues, Tickets and When to Go
By the BeatTheCrowd team · Updated 21 October 2026 · 3 min read
Quick answer
Hase-dera costs ¥400 and opens at 8 am. Most of the year it's easy to visit, but in mid-June to early July, its hydrangea path is so popular that entry uses numbered tickets with waits of an hour or more. Arrive at 8 am to get an early number. Don't miss the 9 m Kannon, the ocean view terrace and the Benten-kutsu cave.
At a glance
- Entry
- ¥400 adults, ¥200 children
- Kannon Museum
- ¥300 extra
- Hours (Mar-Sep)
- 8 am to 5 pm
- Hours (Oct-Feb)
- 8 am to 4:30 pm
- Hydrangeas
- Mid-June to early July, with numbered tickets
- Best time
- 8 am
- Getting there
- Enoden to Hase, 5 minutes' walk
- Time to allow
- 1 hour
How busy is Hase-dera?
Hase-dera is a hillside temple overlooking Sagami Bay, home to an 11-faced Kannon statue over 9 m tall, one of the largest wooden statues in Japan. It's calm most of the year, but in hydrangea season, its slope of around 2,500 hydrangeas becomes one of Kamakura's busiest spots.
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