I'm not sure how to describe the Great Buddha sculpture at Kamakura. It's huge, it weighs 93 tons, it's probably close to 800 years old, it's survived numerous storms/flooding that have repeatedly destroyed temples that were built around it (so much so that they gave up and have left it in the open air for the last 500 years), and it's iconic of Japan. Kamakura's about an hour from Shinjuku on some trains on the Shonan-Shinjuku line. It's definitely something to see in person. There are only 2 larger Buddha statues in the world and both were completed in the 1990s...
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