Yokosuka Port --- and a Mysterious Visitor

The Port of Yokosuka offers 100 berths serving commercial, military, fishing, and ferry traffic.  With the Nissan Oppama plant nearby, the Port of Yokosuka is an important shipping point for automobiles.  The port’s fishing fleet lands tuna and other fish species.  Ferries operating from the Port of Yokosuka take travelers and cargo to Tokyo, Isu Oshima, and Ōita on Kyūshū, Japan’s southern and third largest island.

The Yokosuka City Hall Port and Harbor Department is the port authority managing the Port of Yokosuka.  Located in the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area, the Port of Yokosuka serves the national capital region with easy highway access to the capital city.

The Port of Yokosuka harbor area covers over 5.5 thousand hectares and contains 100 berths at depths of more than 4.5 meters.  In 2004, over 28 thousand ships visited the port carrying more almost 17 million tons of cargo, including 2.1 million tons of foreign cargo and 14.8 million tons of domestic goods.  This included about 8.8 million tons of exports and 8.1 million tons of imports.

Link:  More Information On Yokosuka Port

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All kinds of ships pull into Yokosuka, naval combatants, merchants, fishing vessels .... and, sometimes, a visitor from a different time & dimension...