Yokosuka Port has been developed as a naval port since US Fleet with Commodore Perry arrived nearly 160 years ago. This port is famous for US Naval Base (Yokosuka Port) and the headquarter of JMSDF (Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force) (Nagaura Port) located next to each other. TRYANGLE offers unique local tour, Cruise of YOKOSUKA Naval Port daily. This is one and only unique tour available in Japan to view JMSDF and US Naval ships up close.
Many different kinds of vessels can be viewed during the cruise. JMSDF (Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force) submarines and escort vessels, US Naval Aegis destroyers and cruisers, and depending on the time, aircraft carrier, icebreaker vessel (an Antarctic research vessel), and so many more. Cruise with the view of vessels that changes daily is a unique charm of Yokosuka!
The US Naval fleet with Commodore Matthew Perry (aka Kurofune the black ships) came to Uraga, Yokosuka in 1853. During that period, Japan was under the isolationist foreign policy by Japanese Tokugawa shogunate (aka Bakufu), and the order such as Edict and Repel Foreign Vessels were placed. However Oguri Kozukenosuke who was a commissioner of the finance of Edo Bakufu believed Japan as an islands country urgently needs modern Naval system, in order to stand fair and equal position against foreign countries. He convinced Edo government and hired Leonce Verny the French naval engineer as a construction director, and built Japan’s first modern comprehensive factory “Yokosuka Ironworks” in Yokosuka where it's close enough to Edo and has less effect from ocean waves in 1865.
After nearly 150 years, Yokosuka has developed as one of the leading Naval port in the world.
The leading technologies and the remaining facilities are still used in many places and Yokosuka became the modern military port with many vessels moored there daily.
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