Cape Kannon (Kanagawa, Japan)
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Cape Kannon (Japanese: 観音崎, Kannonzaki) is a cape at the easternmost point of the Miura Peninsula, which divides Tokyo Bay from the Pacific Ocean.
It is on a rocky coast where the Kannonzaki Lighthouse, Japan's first modern lighthouse (after two reconstructions) stands,[1] and faces the Uraga Channel, Japan's busiest sea lane.
Cape Kannon is located 3 kilometers east from Uraga Station of Keikyu Main Line railway. It is now part of Kannonzaki Park. The visitors to the Cape Kannon area can enjoy "Ship watching".[2]
It is perhaps best known as the spot where Lemuel Gulliver, the central character of the 1726 book Gulliver's Travels, landed in Japan in volume 3. It is featured as Xamoschi, a corruption of its then-spelling Kannonsaki.
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35°15′21″N 139°44′39″E / 35.25583°N 139.74417°E
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