Kannonzaki Park

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Kannonzaki Park (Japanese: 観音崎公園) is a prefectural-level combined scenic-city park, located at Cape Kannon (Kannonzaki), the northeastern tip of the Miura Peninsula, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa, Japan. It is a park that makes the most of the rich nature, such as the laurel forest and the coastal rocky shore of the area. In its 70.2-hectare area are found: the park management center, the Kannonzaki Lighthouse, the Yokosuka Museum of Art, the Kannonzaki Nature Museum (Japanese: 観音崎自然博物館), a day camp site, the coastal and hill trails, etc.The visitors to this park can enjoy "Ship watching", as it is located on the Uraga Channel, Japan's busiest sea lane.

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Kannonzaki Park
県道209号, Yokosuka

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神奈川県立　観音崎公園　(パークセンター側入口)

県道209号
238-8550 Yokosuka
Japan
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Cape Kannon (Kanagawa, Japan)

Cape Kannon (Japanese: 観音崎=Kannonzaki) is a cape at the easternmost point of the Miura Peninsula, which divides Tokyo Bay from the Pacific Ocean. It is on a rocky coast where the Kannonzaki Lighthouse, Japan's first modern lighthouse (after two reconstructions) stands, and faces the Uraga Channel, Japan's busiest sea lane. Cape Kannon is located 3 kilometers east from Uraga Station of Keikyu Main Line railway. It is now part of Kannonzaki Park. The visitors to the Cape Kannon area can enjoy "Ship watching".It is perhaps best known as the spot where Lemuel Gulliver, the central character of the 1726 book Gulliver's Travels, landed in Japan in volume 3. It is featured as Xamoschi, a corruption of its then-spelling Kannonsaki.

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