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.

Cape Kannon in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
Cape Kannon (Kanagawa, Japan) is located in 100x100
Cape Kannon (Kanagawa, Japan)
The position of Cape Kannon in the Miura Peninsula, Kanagawa, Japan

It is on a rocky coast where the Kannonzaki Lighthouse, Japan's first modern lighthouse (after two reconstructions) stands,[1] 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".[2]

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.

See also

References
  1. Cape Kannon from the series Views of the Famous Sights of Japan (The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints)
  2. railwayml Yokosuka Eco-tour "Ship Watching over the Uraga Channel (Yokosuka City) (in Japanese)

35°15′21″N 139°44′39″E

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