Also Yoritomo continued development of Kamakura such as moving Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu Shrine, a branch shrine of a deity of Iwashimizu Hachimangu in the suburbs of Kyoto made by an ancestor, MINAMOTO no Yoriyoshi, to the foot of a mountain in the north, and erected the Shochoju-in Temple to pray to Buddha for the happiness of father Yoritomo.
また先祖の源頼義が京都郊外の石清水八幡宮を勧請した鶴岡八幡宮を北の山麓に移し、父義朝の菩提を弔うための勝長寿院の建立を行うなど整備を続けた。