Source: enoden.co.jpChecked 27 Aug 2026

The Enoden Line: What It Gives You, and Where

Fifteen stations. Thirty-four minutes end to end. Three hundred and ten yen to ride the whole line.

Then there is a one-day pass at ¥800, which is more than twice the price of riding the line from one end to the other. On a line this short, that is a strange number, and it is the question this guide answers: what does a day on this line need to look like before ¥800 becomes the cheaper choice?

If you are coming for one particular stop and going back the way you came, the arithmetic below is the part that matters. So is the part about where you can put your bag, because the station most visitors come for is not one of the four that will take it.

From Tokyo, and Where You Start

The line does not connect to Tokyo on its own. You arrive at one of its two ends on somebody else's train, and which end you arrive at changes what you buy next.

From Tokyo Station, the JR Yokosuka Line runs to Kamakura in about 60 minutes. From Yokohama, about 25 minutes. From Haneda Airport, about 30 minutes on the Keikyu line to Yokohama, then the 25 minutes above. From Narita Airport, the Narita Express takes about 110 minutes to Ofuna, and Ofuna is about 10 minutes further. From Omiya, the Shonan-Shinjuku Line takes about 90 minutes.

Those five routes all put you at the Kamakura end. The other end, Fujisawa, is where the Odakyu line reaches, and that matters later — the pass that costs ¥10 more than Enoden's own is an Odakyu product, and none of the journeys above can use it.

We are not quoting fares for these routes. The tourist information the times come from lists journey times and no prices, and we are not going to supply numbers it does not.

Fifteen Stations, Thirty-Four Minutes

The line runs between Fujisawa and Kamakura and stops at fifteen stations: Fujisawa, Ishigami, Yanagikoji, Kugenuma, Shonan-Kaigan-Koen, Enoshima, Koshigoe, Kamakurakokomae, Shichirigahama, Inamuragasaki, Gokurakuji, Hase, Yuigahama, Wadazuka, Kamakura. End to end takes 34 minutes.

Single fares come in three steps. ¥200 takes you one stop. ¥260 covers Kamakura to Kamakurakokomae, which is the ride many visitors make. ¥310 covers the whole line. Children pay half of each: ¥100, ¥130, ¥160.

We are not printing a first or last train here. The English site publishes departure tables rather than a stated first and last service, and the times differ by direction and by whether the day is a weekday or a weekend. Read the table for your own date and direction.

Where the Lockers Are — and Where They Are Not

Enoden has coin lockers at four of its fifteen stations: Fujisawa, Enoshima, Hase and Kamakura. Kamakurakokomae is not one of them. Neither are the other ten.

The stations do not hold luggage over a counter, either. The nearest paid service is run by the Kamakura City Tourist Association, on the fourth floor of the Enoden building in Onarimachi, by Kamakura Station: ¥300 for a bag, ¥600 for a small case, ¥800 for a large one, open 9:00 to 17:00. Tourist information desks sit at Kamakura Station's east exit (9:00 to 17:00) and at Katase-Enoshima (8:30 to 17:00).

Note the last of those prices. Leaving one large case for the day costs ¥800 — the same as the one-day pass.

If the stop you are travelling for is Kamakurakokomae, what that station does and does not have is a longer subject, and we wrote it up separately in what Kamakura actually asks of visitors at the Kamakurakokomae crossing.

Is the ¥800 Pass Worth It

Before any of the numbers, one caveat, because it sits underneath the comparison rather than beside it.

Enoden states that its one-day pass covers the whole line. The Odakyu pass we compare it to below does not state how much of Enoden it covers — only that it includes unlimited rides on local trains in the Enoshima and Kamakura area. We do not know whether that means all fifteen stations. We are not going to decide it for them.

Now the arithmetic. A return trip from Kamakura to Kamakurakokomae is ¥520. A return trip along the whole line is ¥620.

The pass is ¥800. Neither of those reaches it. Riding the entire line out and back, the longest ordinary thing you can do with this railway, still leaves you ¥180 short of the pass being worth buying.

So the honest form of the question is not whether the pass is good value but how many times do I have to get off and on before it is? Three full-line rides come to ¥930, which clears ¥800. Three rides at the ¥260 fare come to ¥780, which does not. Four rides at the ¥200 fare come to exactly ¥800, which buys you nothing. The pass pays for itself on three long rides, or four or more short ones — not on three rides as such.

There is one more ticket worth knowing about, and it belongs to a different railway. The Odakyu Enoshima-Kamakura Freepass costs ¥810 for an adult and ¥410 for a child from Fujisawa, and ¥1,640 for an adult and ¥430 for a child from Shinjuku, because the price follows the Odakyu station you start from. It is valid for one day and combines a discounted Odakyu round trip with unlimited local rides in the area. It is sold through Odakyu's online ticket service in English and at Odakyu station machines and counters. It is an Odakyu ticket, so none of the JR or Keikyu routes at the top of this guide can use it.

From Fujisawa it is ¥810 against Enoden's ¥800. Adults and children face the same ¥10 gap, in both directions of the comparison. What the ¥10 buys is the Odakyu stretch between Fujisawa and Katase-Enoshima. If your day never uses that stretch, the ¥10 has bought you nothing — and the caveat at the top of this section is what stops the comparison there, because the published wording does not say how much of Enoden comes with it. Which ticket is cheaper depends on where you start and what you plan to do, and we would rather leave you the two numbers than pick one for you.

What Enoden Does Not Publish

Four things we looked for on the English site and did not find. None of them are errors; they are simply outside what the railway puts in English.

• Locker sizes, prices and counts. The station pages mark which stations have coin lockers and stop there.
• Crowding notices, conduct signs and photography rules. There is nothing on the English site about any of them. The city, on the other hand, has an ordinance, and what it actually names is narrower than most people expect — we went through it stop by stop.
• How to reach the line from Tokyo. The journey times earlier in this guide come from Kamakura's tourism site, not from Enoden.
• A stated first and last train. Departure tables, yes. A sentence naming the first and last service, no.

Before You Go

Fares and times here were checked on 26 August 2026, and the Odakyu pass prices on 27 August 2026. Fares change, and pass conditions change more often than fares do.

One thing we deliberately left out. We have not confirmed what crowd measures, if any, are in place around the line in 2026. A four-day trial ran near one station in September 2025, and the city then contracted guides there from October 2025 to March 2026 — but that arrangement was published as ending on 31 March 2026, and we have not found an announcement covering the rest of the year. So we are not going to tell you the arrangement you will find.

Sources: Enoshima Electric Railway — fares, stations, lockers, checked 26 August 2026. VISIT KAMAKURA — routes from Tokyo and paid baggage storage, checked 26 August 2026. Odakyu Electric Railway — Enoshima-Kamakura Freepass prices, checked 27 August 2026.

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