History / Culture / Tour Spots in Miura Peninsula Area
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- Yokosuka Museum of Art
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4.5196 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Kanagawa Pref. Yokosukashi Kamoi 4-1
- This museum is located in Yokosuka City's Kannonzaki Park. In addition to the various exhibition areas, there is a Mountain Plaza and an Ocean Plaza facing the forest and the sea, letting guests view the ocean or do some forest bathing. The museum annex and the Rokuro Taniuchi Hall displays work by Rokuro Taniuchi, an artist who does the cover of the Weekly Shincho magazine. Events such as art markets and workshops are held from time to time.
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The Art museum focuses on contemporary art in Japan. This includes artists of new and old. Allow about two hours to see everything that the museum offers. Wear walking shoes because the art work...
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- Mikasa Historic Memorial Warship
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4.5366 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Kanagawa Yokosuka-shi Inaokacho 82-19
- This battleship became a flagship of the Combined Fleet in December 1902. It was restored by the Mikasa Preservation Society in 1958 through domestic and international donations and government grants and was opened to the public for viewing. They have both 30 and 60-minute viewing plans available, as well as a plan for groups of 10 or more. Onboard you can learn about the history of the Mikasa and the warfare through a variety of displays that include items like a 36 radiotelegraph, 15-centimeter secondary battery operation room, and documents written in the hand of staff officer Akiyama Saneyuki. You can reach it by taking the Mikasa Junkan Bus from Keiyu Yokosuka-Chuo Station to the Mikasa Koen Stop.
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Lots of interesting information and can pretty much access most of the ship. At only ¥600 (£~4) for adults its definitely worth it. Theres also a nice park located to the side.
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- Kainan Shrine
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4.040 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Kanagawa Pref. Miurashi Misaki 4-12-11
- This shrine is located in Misaki 4-chome , Miura City. In addition to enshrining Fujiwara-no-Sukemitsu, the ancestral founder of Miura, it venerates Senryu Benzaiten, one of the Seven Lucky Gods of Miura. Every year on January 15th, they hold the sacred Chakkirako dance, registered as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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三崎のフィッシャリーナウォーフ「うらり」でのお買い物や食事の前後にオススメです。 三崎口駅へのバス通りと平行する参道に入るともう正面に見えていて、歩いて３分ほどの近さです。近づくとより社殿の朱が際立って見えます。立派な御神木も見事です。 御朱印は何種類かが正面右手の社務所で頂けますが、通常版だけは書き置きではなく持ち込んだ御朱印帳に直接記してくださいました。
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- Kano-jinja Shrine
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4.045 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Kanagawa Pref. Yokosukashi Higashiuraga 2-21-25
- This shrine is located in Higashiuraga, Yokosuka City. This is the western shrine of the pair of twin Kano-jinja shrines that sandwich the Uraga harbor. Thought to be sites with spiritual energy, based on the name Kano, meaning 'possible'. Fortune in finding a partner is found by placing a bead from the west Kano shrine in an amulet case from the east Kano shrine. The two shrines are easily accessible using the Uraga no Watashi passenger ferry, which traverses the harbor.
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浦賀駅から徒歩20分ほど。 1181年に石清水八幡宮を勧請して創建。祭神は応神天皇。現社殿は1929年再建の木造銅板葺でその脇にある神輿蔵には立派な神輿が納められている。また拝殿左側の石段を220-230段ほど上ったところ(明神山山頂)には奥の院が鎮座している。
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- Kannonzaki Nature Museum
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4.017 Reviews - Leisure / Hobbies
- Kanagawa Pref. Yokosukashi Kamoi 4-1120
- This museum is located in Kannonzaki Park in Kamoi, Yokosuka City. It features exhibits relating to the “Tokyo Bay catchment area” from the source of rivers flowing into Tokyo Bay to the mouth of Tokyo Bay, and the nature of Miura Peninsula where the museum is located. In addition to arranging displays of National Natural Monuments like the Tokyo bitterling and exhibits like a touch pool where you can touch sea life, they hold collective observation events for observing life like the sea firefly which illuminates at night in summer.
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入場料400円ですので，正直，たいした事ない？子供向け？なのでは，とたかをくくっていました。失礼しました。 こじんまりとはしていますが，魚に触れるプールがあったり，観音崎の海の中にいるお魚の水槽があったり，非常に楽しめました。
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- Jinmuji Temple
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4.015 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Kanagawa Zushi-shi Numama 2-1402
- In 724, Emperor Shomu ordered the Buddhist priest Gyoki to carve and enshrine 11-headed Kanzeon, Yakushi Nyorai, and Shaka Nyorai statues here. The temple was founded as a place to pray for the safety of the Emperor, national peace, and the prosperity of the people. During the Showa and Heisei periods, the approach to the temple was improved and the Yakushido sanctuary was renovated. This temple retains vestiges of mountain worship, rare today in Zushi and Kamakura. The temple continues to proclaim the Buddhist teachings today. Its 400-year-old woodland elaecarpus tree has been selected as one of the 100 most important trees in the prefecture.
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Hidden in a forest on a mountainside at the far reaches of Zushi this is a beautiful temple complex with extensive grounds. It is well worth the hike down the country lane and path up.
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- Morito Daimyojin Shrine
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- Kanagawa Pref. Miuragunhayamamachi Horiuchi 1025
- This prestigious shrine was built by Minamoto No Yoritomo during Kamakura period, and is even mentioned in the historic literature Azuma Kagami. The main sanctum is designated as an Important Cultural Property of Hayama Town. The torii is located on a small island called Najima. This view at twilight is one of Kanagawa's top 50 sites. Also known as a shrine that treasures children, many visitors pray for fertility and safe delivery of a child.
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- Kitahara Hakushu Memorial Monument
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3.514 Reviews - Travel / Tourism
- Kanagawa Miura-shi Misakimachijogashima
- "A monument unveiled in 1949 and moved to its current location by the Jogashima Ohashi Bridge in 1960 where a musical monument to Yanada Tadashi was added. An over 3-meter-high sail-shaped monument made of stone from the Nebukawa River, it's carved with Hakushu's cursive script of a passage from ""The Jogashima Rain."""
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三浦半島をランニングした際に訪れました。今までバス等で何度も訪れている城ヶ島ですが、ここに北原白秋に関する施設や碑があることに気が付きませんでした。ほぼ城ヶ島大橋の真下に位置しているのも災いしているのかもしれませんね。ランニングしたからこそ、発見出来たのかもしれません。
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- The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama
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- Kanagawa Pref. Miuragunhayamamachi Isshiki 2208-1
- This is an art museum located in Hayama Town, Miura County. This structure, the third one in The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama, opened in 2003. Incorporating exhibition spaces with various features such as high ceilings or distinctive lighting, this museum displays various kinds of artworks and exhibits. This museum also has a fully library equipped with a cataloging system and periodicals, a hall and a restaurant, for use at no cost.
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- Zushi Bunka Plaza Hall
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- Kanagawa Pref. Zushishi Zushi 4-2-10
- A hall near Shin-Zushi Station in Zushi 4-Chome, Zushi City. The building has the Nagisa Hall with a capacity of 558 and the Sazanami Hall with a capacity of 160 as well as a gallery for display of paintings and photographs and classroom facilities. In addition to hosting concerts, plays, and rakugo comedy performances they also support local community development efforts.
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- Tomyodo
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- Kanagawa Yokosuka-shi Nishiuraga 6-46
- This is the site of a Japanese lighthouse built on the tip of the west coast of Uraga Port a 10-minute drive from Keikyu Uraga Station. The two-story lighthouse was built with a stone foundation in 1648, and it is said its light reached all the way to the Boso Peninsula. For some 220 years until it was closed in April 1872, the lighthouse helped maintain maritime safety in the area at night without missing a single day. After it was closed, it was demolished, leaving only the stone foundation, but it was reconstructed exactly as it once looked in 1988. Today, the rebuilt lighthouse continues to look on as numerous boats ply the nearby waters.
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- Yokosuka City Hamayu Hall
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- Kanagawa Pref. Yokosukashi Kinukasasakaechou 1-47
- This concert venue is located a three-minute walk from Kinugasa Station on the JR Yokosuka Line . It has a 516-seat hall and exhibition gallery as well as a lounge and multipurpose room. There is a grand piano which people only have very little chance of playing, and besides concerts, they use the stage for local dance and piano recitals. They also have a program that lets visitors try using the grand piano for an hour. The lounge can be used for various gatherings like meetings, discussions, and regional club activities.
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- Chiyogasaki Cannon battery Ato
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- Kanagawa Yokosuka-shi Nishiuraga 6-5-1
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- Yokosuka City Museum
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- Kanagawa Pref. Yokosukashi Fukadadai 95
- Operated by the municipal government, Yokosuka City Museum is located in the Fukadadai area of Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Its exhibit includes a model of the topography of the Miura Peninsula and a replica of the Paleoxodon (an extinct variety of elephant) that was dug up in Yokosuka. The humanities section of the museum contains exhibits concerning people who influenced the development of the city and exhibits related to Commander Perry's arrival in Japan. Events include monthly outdoor education sessions, guided tours of Tenjin Island, and lectures at the museum.
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- Nagoe Kiridoshi Pass
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- Kanagawa Prefecture Kamakura City, Zushi City
- Nagoe Kiridoshi Pass was one of the main roads to the Miura Peninsula from Kamakura. The flat ground cut with precipices was considered a great defensive point for the surrounding area. The remains of scaffolds and funeral rites such as cremation can be founded scattered across the pass. It is a well preserved historical landscape of the feudal era. Points of interest such as the Mandarado yagura (burial caves) area, Okirigishi cliff, and more, are scattered across 10 hectors of the pass.
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- Perry Memorial
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- Kanagawa Yokosuka-shi Kurihama 7-14
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- Magaibutsu
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- Kanagawa Yokosuka-shi Shonantakatori 3-3-520 (Takatoriyama Park)
- This huge statue of Maitreya is located a 10-minute walk from the Takatori Shogakko bus stop on the Shonan Takatori Loop bus which leaves from Keikyu Oppama Station. The sculpture is located on Mt. Takatori, which is known for its sheer vertical cliffs which were created through the harvesting of the mountain's stone. The statue was created over a one-year period starting in 1960 by Yokosuka City sculptor Shigeru Fujishima and is eight meters tall and 4.5 meters wide. A statue of Gautama Buddha was also created at the same time but was later destroyed in order to build Takatori Elementary School, and today only the statue of Maitreya remains. The surrounding area is maintained as Takatoriyama Park.
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- Grave of Miura Anjin
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- Kanagawa Yokosuka-shi Nishihemicho 3-57
- This pair of memorial towers, located a 20-minute walk from Keikyu Anjinzuka Station and Hemi Station, stands on ground which belonged to Englishman Miura Anjin (William Adams), who gained the trust of shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and served as a diplomatic advisor. A 1905 excavation discovered hair and other relics and determined that this place was the location of his grave. The tuff tower on the right is Anjin's grave, while the andesite tower on the left is the grave of his wife. The graves are located in Tsukayama Park, which boasts fantastic views and which is also a famous destination for cherry blossoms; a festival celebrating Anjin and a cherry blossom viewing event are held in the park in spring.
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- Museum Haus Kasuya
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- Kanagawa Yokosuka-shi Hirasaku 7-12-13
- This private art museum is located in a lush, bamboo thicket-enshrouded residential area a 15-minute walk from Kinugasa Station on the JR Yokosuka Line. Dedicated to modern art, the museum's standing exhibitions primarily consist of solo exhibitions featuring modern-day artists; the museum also holds special exhibitions around every two months. In order to popularize modern art, which ordinarily most people don't come in contact with, the museum additionally holds a variety of events, including seminars, tea parties, symposiums, and concerts.
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- Ishihara Yujiro Memorial Monument
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- Kanagawa Miura-gun Hayamamachi Horiuchi 1025 Morito Jinja Uchi
- A stone monument at Morito-jinja Shrine, the guardian sanctuary of Hayama. Located at the entrance to the beach behind the shrine, the bronze statue of Yujiro is inscribed with a poem by Ishihara Shintaro in his own script. Many fans still visit this memorial to Yujiro Ishihara, an actor who spent his youth in Shonan and loved the area immensely.
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Kanagawa prefecture acts as an extension of the Tokyo metropolis that spills over into coastal towns, most notably Yokohama city, heavily populated and known for its Chinatown and seaside attractions. Just the right distance for a day trip out of Tokyo, Kanagawa is home to some of Tokyo’s most accessible beaches, including around Kamakura, best known for its Big Buddha. Visitors can also travel a little farther afield for a weekend at Hakone onsen town.
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