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The Best Attractions In Yokosuka

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Yokosuka is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of October 2017, the city has a population of 409,478, and a population density of 4,066 people per km2. The total area is 100.7 km2. Yokosuka is the 11th most populous city in the Greater Tokyo Area, and the 12th in the Kantō region.
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  • 1. Verny Park Yokosuka
    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.
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  • 2. Mikasa Park Yokosuka
    Mikasa is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1890s. Named after Mount Mikasa in Nara, Japan, the ship served as the flagship of 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 Russo-Japanese 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. After 1922, Mikasa was decommissioned in accordance with the Washington Naval Treaty and preserved as a muse...
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  • 3. Sarushima Island (Monkey Island) Yokosuka
    Sarushima , is a small island located off Yokosuka, Kanagawa in Japan. It is the only natural island in Tokyo Bay. Sarushima was used as a battery by the Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period, and after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the island was developed as part of the Yokosuka Navy Yard.Matthew C. Perry named the island Perry Island in 1853.
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  • 4. Memorial Warships Mikasa Yokosuka
    USS New Jersey is an Iowa-class battleship, and was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named after the US state of New Jersey. New Jersey earned more battle stars for combat actions than the other three completed Iowa-class battleships, and was the only US battleship providing gunfire support during the Vietnam War. During World War II, New Jersey shelled targets on Guam and Okinawa, and screened aircraft carriers conducting raids in the Marshall Islands. During the Korean War, she was involved in raids up and down the North Korean coast, after which she was decommissioned into the United States Navy reserve fleets, better known as the mothball fleet. She was briefly reactivated in 1968 and sent to Vietnam to support US troops before returning to the mothball fleet in 1969. Re...
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  • 6. Yokosuka Museum of Art Yokosuka
    Yokosuka is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of October 2017, the city has a population of 409,478, and a population density of 4,066 people per km2. The total area is 100.7 km2. Yokosuka is the 11th most populous city in the Greater Tokyo Area, and the 12th in the Kantō region.
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