By train through Will's domain: IN SEARCH OF THE LOST ENGLISH SAMURAI.
The domains of Will Adams and the wider Miura peninsula have not become completely part of the Tokyo urban sprawl. Their depth, steepness and in many cases sheer inaccessibily has guaranteed a large degree of unspoilt greenness has endured. And with this, some of the families, with their traditional surnames - many of them called 'Miura' - still reside here.
Here, we see many of those misty valleys, lit up by the rays of the rising sun, as the Keikyu line train, originating in the capital, heading south through Yokohama and on to Yokosuka, in the Miura peninsula dissects Hemi, Anjinzuka and many nearby vales.
From the documentary series IN SEARCH OF THE LOST ENGLISH SAMURAI.
Series playlist:
Music: Frederick Delius - La Calinda (Malcolm Sargent conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra).
Points of interest along the route:
0:30 The copper-domed stupa of Ryoshin-ji, a Jodo Buddhist temple which houses a relic of the Buddha - presented by the president of Sri Lanka in 1986.
1:00 Keikyu Taura Station.
1:06 Trans-peninsular road, from Taura, on Tokyo Bay, to Kamakura, on the Pacific.
1:12 The JR Train Line. Unlike the Keikyu Line, which largely follows the eastern and southern coastlines of Miura, the JR Yokosuka Line cuts through the centre of the peninsula, from the northwest, at Kamakura, to the southeast, at Kurihama, via Zushi, Taura, Yokosuka central and Kinugasa.
2:00 Anjinzuka Station, named after the monument to Will Adams, which sits on the hilltop above.
2:45 Hemi Station, in the heart of Will Adams' domain. Walking down the steps from the station will bring one out on Anjin-dori Street, just a five minute walk from Jodo-ji, the temple long associated with the English navigator.
3:10 Shioiri station, on the edge of downtown Yokosuka, right by the Japanese and US naval bases and a short walk from Mikasa Park.