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14201 ／よこすかし

Yokosuka City

100 wicks a night were lit, it is said.

Tomyo-do, Uraga's cape

Photo by のりまき (CC BY 3.0)

01 ／ Shell mound

Shells and fish bones, eaten and thrown away,came out in stacked layers.

Natsushima Shell Mound is an Early Jomon site. Digs in 1950 and 1955 found stacked shell layers, with pottery mainly of the Natsushima type, stone tools and bone fishhooks. Clam, short-neck clam and oyster shells and bones of tuna, mullet and black sea bream also came out. Measurements from the same shell layer gave a value of about 9,500 years ago.

National Historic Site (designated 1972)
Measured at about 9,500 years ago
Excavated in 1950 and 1955

02 ／ Festival

A tiger dances as if rampaging,and is calmed in the end.

In the tiger dance, a dancer in a tiger’s head dances as if rampaging. It survives in two places, Nobi-Nakamura and Nishi-Uraga. It is held at each district’s shrine festival, on a stage set up in or near the precincts. Based on Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s Kokusen’ya Kassen, it features Watonai and a girl’s Karako dance, and ends with the tiger calmed.

Nationally selected Intangible Folk Cultural Property (2004)
Two places: Nobi-Nakamura and Nishi-Uraga
Based on Kokusen’ya Kassen

03 ／ Buddhist statues

Fudo Myoo and Bishamonten:a plaque inside showed Unkei made them.

For the statues of Fudo Myoo and Bishamonten kept at Joraku-ji, a ladle-shaped plaque found inside in 1959 showed that Unkei made them in the 5th year of Bunji (1189). They overturned the established view that there were said to be no works of his in the Kanto region, and are Important Cultural Properties.

Important Cultural Property (designated 1975)
Plaque found in 1959
Made in the 5th year of Bunji (1189)

Yokosuka City from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot November 2021)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

46 minutes from Shinagawa on the Keikyu.

about 390,000 people
60 min to a city centre

From Shinagawa Station, the fastest Keikyu Main Line train reaches Yokosuka-Chuo Station in 46 minutes, with no change. From Tokyo Station, the JR Yokosuka Line runs to Yokosuka Station in 74 minutes at best, also with no change.

People living here: 388,078people
Area: 100.81km²
Households: 165,473households
Rent (average for rentals): 55,645yen
Healthcare: 12 hospitals ／ 304 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —45 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

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Where you can go from here.

Yokosuka City in Japan35.281°N 139.672°E

to ShinagawaKeikyu Main Line46min
to TokyoJR Yokosuka Line74min

Travel times follow 品川→横須賀中央は京急電鉄公式の各駅時刻表（norikae.keikyu.co.jp の品川駅・浦賀方面。平日〔dw=0〕・土曜〔dw=1〕・休日〔dw=2〕。『2025年12月13日改正』）の快特の列車ごとの停車駅ページ（T7）で、品川の発車と横須賀中央の着を引いた（2026-10-21・本体）。東京→横須賀駅はJR東日本の時刻表（timetables.jreast.co.jp/2610）の列車ページ、東京駅の横須賀線の平日（1039130）と土休日（1039131）の列車の東京発・横須賀駅着を数えた (checked 2026-10-21). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Territory of Yokosuka City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

18.0km

Zushi City, Yokohama City, Hayama Town, Miura City

Yokosuka City isthis kind of town.

01Uraga’s Tomyo-do kept a light burning over the sea for about 220 years
02The shell layers of Natsushima gave a value of about 9,500 years ago
03A rampaging tiger dance, and statues shown to be by Unkei

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yokosuka City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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