Yokosuka
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Yokosuka is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Top: View of downtown Yokosuka from Verny Seaside Park, Middle: Mikasa Battleship Monument and Heihachirō Togō Statue, Kurihama Matthew Perry Park, Bottom: Yokosuka Naval Curry, Kannon Cape [ja], and seaside park (all item for left to right)
View of Mount Fuji and downtown Yokosuka, seen from Uraga Channel
Construction of the Yokosuka arsenal c. 1870
The U.S. Navy base at Yokosuka
Japanese battleship Mikasa
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Mikasa is a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1890s, and is the only ship of her class. Named after Mount Mikasa in Nara, Japan, the ship served as the flagsh
Yokosuka
…Sarushima is an uninhabited island in the Tokyo Bay, accessible by ferry from Yokosuka. The Mikasa, flagship of Admiral Togo at the Battle of Tsushima, built in Britain by Vickers, is preserved on dry land at Yokosuka. It is a museum, complete with…
Mikasa in Yokosuka, Japan, 2021
Turret layout for original 12-inch (305 mm) 40-calibre guns
Mikasa as she appeared in 1905
The new 45-calibre 12-inch guns added during the reconstruction