Geijutsu Geki-Jo

Yokosuka City hosts a world-class performance venue ... For opera or symphonies or other stage performances...

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The Yokosuka arts theatre is in the complex institution called The Bay Side Square Yokosuka. 

It opened in February 1994, after decade of its conception. 

There is the Yokosuka art theater other than, office, a hotel, shops, gathering residences in this institution.

The Yokosuka arts theatre, with 1,806seats, is designed as opera house. It is a horseshoe in plan with four layers of high balconies. 

The small hall called “The Bay Side Pocket” is designed for multipurpose space, having capacity of 600seats, can be used as a flat level floor for a variety of performances. 

Yokosuka-City is at the center of Miura Peninsula and there is the distance of about 50 km from Tokyo.  The site for The Bay Side Square Yokosuka was the former site of the EM Club (Enlisted Men’s Club) which was a U.S. Navy personnel meeting place at one time. 

The plot was returned from U.S. in 1983. 

The EM club was the birthplace of  jazz music in Japan during the postwar years, as that music was performed in the EM club, and various concert were carried out. 

Such jazz performances were supporting the development of the music world of Japan.

Old Shioiri Station

This sign is located along the road, right outside of Keihin Kyuko electric railway company's Shioiri Station.

I don't know when the sign was erected, but it looks like it's been there for many years.

From 1930 through 1940, the name of the Shioiri Station was 軍港駅 -- GUNKO EKI .... Which means Naval Port Station.  The name came from the fact that it was located close to the big naval base used by Japan's Imperial Navy.

Getting back to the sign .... The kanji characters, from right to left, read something like as follows:

こころ  咲きます  みらい都市

KOKORO SAKI-MASU MIRAI TOSHI

   

City of the future where warm feelings bloom.

Of interest, the heart-shaped illustration/cartoon of Yokosuka shows various daily life scenes: buildings, businesses, houses, car traffic, greenery, etc. --- But no sign of U.S. or Japanese naval ships, which are a prominent and visible presence in the downtown-harbor area of eastern Yokosuka...

There was a time, for many decades after World War II, when Yokosuka, aspiring to be a "peace city", did not openly advertise or promote itself as a Navy Town .... That has changed in recent years, where the naval harbor/history and warships have become a tourism resource...