Surf Bungaku Kamakura

Surf Bungaku Kamakura (サーフ ブンガク カマクラ) is the fifth studio album released by the Japanese rock band Asian Kung-Fu Generation, released on November 5, 2008. The album peaked at the second position on both the Oricon charts and Billboard Japan. Its lead single, "Fujisawa Loser" managed to peak at number five on the Japan Hot 100 and at the number six spot on Oricon. The album's tracks are named after notable stops along the famous Enoshima Electric Railway in order starting from Fujisawa and ending with Kamakura. Additionally, it includes the three b-sides "Enoshima Escalator," "Yuigahama Kite," and "Kugenama Surf" released over the past two years within "Korogaru Iwa, Kimi ni Asa ga Furu," "After Dark," and "Aru Machi no Gunjō" respectively. In promotion of the conceptual album, on November 9, the band held an exclusive live concert within an undisclosed location in Kamakura.

The band has since revealed a continuation of this album is in the works, covering the stations of the Railway line which did not originally have a song. This began with Yanagikōji Parallel Universe, a B-side track to Demachiyanagi Parallel Universe.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Masafumi Gotoh.

Personnel

 * Masafumi Gotoh – lead vocals, guitar, lyrics
 * Kensuke Kita – lead guitar, background vocals
 * Takahiro Yamada – bass, background vocals
 * Kiyoshi Ijichi – drums
 * Asian Kung-Fu Generation – producer


 * Kenichi Nakamura – mixing, recording
 * Michifumi Onodera – mixing, recording
 * Stephen Marcussen – mastering
 * Stewart Whitmore – editing
 * Yusuke Nakamura – art direction

Surf Bungaku Kamakura Complete
Asian Kung-Fu Generation's eleventh studio album, Surf Bungaku Kamakura Complete (サーフ ブンガク カマクラ（完全版）) was released on July 5, 2023. The album contains re-recordings of the original songs and new five songs, also dubbed "complete version" as now it covers every Enoshima Electric Railway station. Two new tracks, "Yanagikouji Parallel Universe" and "Nissaka Down Hill" were already released as B-sides of "Demachiyanagi Parallel Universe" and "Shukuen", respectively.

Three weeks before the release of the full album, the band released an EP called Surf Bungaku Kamakura (half carton) (サーフ ブンガク カマクラ（半カートン）) that included five new songs and an instrumental cover of Caramelman's "Shonan Electro", exclusive on music streaming services.

On the day of release, an Instagram live talk was held on Gotoh and Kiyoshi's Instagram accounts, broadcasting from New Enoshima Aquarium. To promote the new album, the band took a different artist photo at each Enoden station, which were then displayed as posters at the respective stations for a two week period starting from the day prior to release.

Track listing
All songs written and composed by Masafumi Gotoh, except where noted.