Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Yokosuka, Japan
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4.9 km
261 m
Experience Yokosuka in Japan in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Individual Sights in YokosukaSight 1: Anjin-duka
Anjinzuka is the grave of William Adams, located in Tsukayama Park in Nishi-Itsumi-cho, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture. As "Yasuharizuka Station", it is also the station name of the Keikyu Electric Railway. As for the notation, it may be referred to as "needle mound".
Sight 2: Tsukayama Park
Tsukayama Park is a prefectural urban park located in the hills of Nishiitsumi-cho, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Sight 3: 二宮金次郎
Ninomiya Sontoku , also known as Ninomiya Kinjirō, was a Japanese agriculturalist. He lost his parents when he was a boy, but through hard work and diligence, he rebuilt his fallen family at the age of 20. Later, he rebuilt approximately 600 villages and became a shogunate retainer. His ideas and actions were inherited as the Hōtokusha Movement.
Sight 4: 浄土寺
Jodoji Temple (Jodoji) is a temple of the Jodo Shinshu Honganji sect (Nishi Honganji) whose founder is Shinran, located in Nishiitsumi-cho, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Built by the Kamakura period warlord Hatakeyama Shigetada. During the Muromachi period, he took refuge in Rennyo during the 11th abbot and became a Jodo Shinshu from the Tendai sect. It is the Bodhi Temple of the British navigator William Adams (Japan name: Miura Shohari), who came to Japan in the early Edo period and served as a diplomatic advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu. The current head priest is Michio Itsumi.
Sight 5: 鹿島神社
Kashima Shrine is a shrine located in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, with "Kashima" as its name and a shrine dedicated to the god Takemikazuchi.
Sight 6: コロボックルの会(観光案内)
Korobokkuru Monogatari (Korobokkuru Monogatari) is a series of fantasy novels by Sato and Arikawa Hiroshi.
Sight 7: 戦艦陸奥 第四主砲 砲身
Mutsu (陸奥) was the second and last Nagato-class dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) at the end of World War I. She was named after the province. In 1923 she carried supplies for the survivors of the Great Kantō earthquake. The ship was modernized in 1934–1936 with improvements to her armour and machinery, and a rebuilt superstructure in the pagoda mast style.
Sight 8: 小栗上野介忠順
Oguri Kozukenosuke was a statesman of the Tokugawa government in the last stage of the Edo period, and he is often regarded as a rival of Katsu Kaishu. At the time when the power of the Tokugawa government was diminishing, he took the posts of finance magistrate twice, and that of the foreign magistrate once. Also, he decided to construct the first arsenal in Japan, and this decision contributed to the Meiji Restoration.
Sight 9: フランソワ・レオンス・ヴェルニー
François Léonce Verny, was a French officer and naval engineer who directed the construction of the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal in Japan, as well as many related modern infrastructure projects from 1865 to 1876, thus helping jump-start Japan's modernization.
Sight 10: Verny Park
Verney Park is a municipal urban park (neighborhood park) located in Shioiri, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Open all year round.
Sight 11: Mikasa
Mikasa (三笠) is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in the late 1890s, and is the only ship of her class. Named after Mount Mikasa in Nara, Japan, the ship served as the flagship of Vice Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, including the Battle of Port Arthur on the second day of the war and the Battles of the Yellow Sea and Tsushima. Days after the end of the war, Mikasa's magazine accidentally exploded and sank the ship. She was salvaged and her repairs took over two years to complete. Afterwards, the ship served as a coast-defence ship during World War I and supported Japanese forces during the Siberian Intervention in the Russian Civil War.
Sight 12: Mikasa Park
Mikasa Park is a park located in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.
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