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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Yokosuka

2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Yokosuka, Japan

Updated March 12, 2020
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Sarushima Island

Yokosuka, Japan

Sarushima - "Monkey Island"

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

Yokosuka, Japan

Mikasa Memorial Warship

The last remaining pre-dreadnought battleship in the world has been a museum for nearly a century.
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The Mandarado yagura cluster.

Kamakura, Japan

Mandarado Burial Grottoes

An eerie cluster of medieval cave-like tombs carved out of a cliff, hidden in a historic mountain pass.
6 miles from Yokosuka
Prince Morinaga’s Dungeon.

Kamakura, Japan

Prince Morinaga's Dungeon

The alleged site of the months-long imprisonment of a Japanese prince.
6 miles from Yokosuka
The Harakiri Yagura, the site of Hōjō Takatoki’s suicide.

Kamakura, Japan

Harakiri Yagura

Access to this hidden site of a 14th-century mass suicide is prohibited, unless it is to pray for the dead.
6 miles from Yokosuka
Kurosawa Akira’s grave.

Kamakura, Japan

Grave of Akira Kurosawa

Japan's legendary filmmaker is interred in a small graveyard in a similarly modest temple in Kamakura.
6 miles from Yokosuka
The island is sometimes accessible on foot at low tide.

Kamakura, Japan

Wakae Island Ruins

The ruins of the oldest artificial island in Japan, still used for mooring today at 800 years old.
6 miles from Yokosuka
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