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On the right-hand side of San-mon, there is a flight of about 140 steps leading up to the top of the hill where the famous bell - the largest in Kamakura and a National Treasure - is hanging. Unlike the Western bells, Japanese ones have clappers not inside but outside the bells, and the clapper is a log (hemp-palms are preferred) hung horizontally. To ring a bell, a man swings the log and hit the outside of the bell. It was made by members of Mononobe {mo-no-no-bay} family, the most notable caster family during the Kamakura Period, and Sadatoki Hojo donated it in 1301.
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