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Jōgashima


Jōgashima (城ヶ島, Jōgashima) is a Japanese island of the municipality of Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, off the southernmost and western tip of Miura Peninsula, facing Sagami Bay.

It is home to the Jōgashima Lighthouse, the fourth oldest western style lighthouse to be built in Japan.

Jōgashima is connected to the mainland by a box-girder bridge since 1959, the longest in Asia as of 1963.

Trees in Jōgashima.

The bridge.

Ōshima from Jōgashima.

Mount Fuji from Jōgashima.

Coordinates: 35°08′06″N 139°37′12″E / 35.135°N 139.62°E / 35.135; 139.62


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