 The area is served by the Enoshima Electric Railway, or Enoden, which connects Kamakura Station in Kamakura with Fujisawa Station.The beach's name means "Seven Ri Beach", where a "ri" is an old Japanese unit of measurement equivalent to 3.9 km, and therefore Shichirigahama should be about 27 km long.In fact, it is just over one tenth of that length.