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Jōgashima

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Elevation
  
30 m

Area
  
99 ha


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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.

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Map of J%C5%8Dgashima, Misakimachi Jogashima, Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture 238-0237, Japan

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.

j gashima no ame


References

Jōgashima Wikipedia