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| Miura Peninsula, being only 50km south of Tokyo, can be easily reached. I started from Zushi Station and cycled around the peninsula, it was about 80km to Enoshima Station. The east side of the peninsula had many good harbors in a Ria coast(drowned valley). There was the Yokosuka base of US Navy which is the home port of nuclear-powered carrier "George Washington" here. Natural scenery gradually increased when I passed over Yokosuka. Japanese radish cultivated prosperously here because there was little water and cannot make rice. At the shore, a farmer was airing lots of Japanese radishes. These are processed into pickled radish.  |
In Kurihama there was a landing monument of Perry, who forcibly opened the "closed country" of Japan to the world. He was a younger brother of Oliver Perry. Oliver commanded at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. I cycled heading north on the ridge of the peninsula from the cape, and turned westward at Kamakura. I saw Enoshima and Mt. Fuji in the front, I photographed it while cycling instinctively. |
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 83.4Km/Total 6h |
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