Shoten-jima Park
"Originally, this place was an island called Shotenjima floating in the sea of Enoshima.
There used to be a rocky shore with two rocks that resembled the shape of Kangiten (the god of bliss), so the island was called Shotenjima after Shoten, another name for Kangiten.
After the Great Kanto Earthquake, the seafloor rose up and the island was connected to the shore, and when Shonan Port was built for the Tokyo Olympics, the sea was reclaimed and the island took its present form.
Today, the upper part of the rock surface remains, which gives a glimpse of what the island looked like in those days.
In the past, the island was a sacred place where misogi (a purification ceremony) was performed during the Enoshima Tenno Festival of Yasaka Shrine, so there is a shrine in the park, and a statue of Ryoshin, a high-rank priest of the Kamakura period, is enshrined.
