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Chief guardian of Otsu founded by invitation from Suwa Taisha in 824 — celebrating 1,200 years of enshrinement in Yokosuka in 2024

An ancient shrine at the eastern tip of the Miura Peninsula where Princess Ototachibana calmed the waves — Katsu Kaishu also prayed here before the Kanrinmaru's Pacific crossing

Founded by Wada Yoshimori in 1189 — enshrining five nationally designated Unkei-sculpted Buddhist statues, a supreme treasury of Kamakura Buddhist art

A Jodo sect temple founded in 1504, known as the burial site of Oryo (Narasaki Ryo), Sakamoto Ryoma's wife, who died here at 66 in 1906

A hilltop guardian shrine of the old naval port town of Taura — looking out over the Taura Ume no Sato plum grove with some 2,700 trees in spring

The Miura clan's home castle built by Miura Tamemichi in 1081, where the 89-year-old Yoshiaki sacrificed himself in 1180 to buy time for the clan to join Yoritomo's uprising.

The first sacred site of the Nichiren sect — built on the cave where Saint Nichiren prayed on his 1253 journey to Kamakura to begin his mission

Admiral Togo's flagship at the Battle of Tsushima (1905) — where the Z-flag signal 'The fate of the empire rests upon this battle' was hoisted before the decisive victory

Founded at the shore where Nichiren himself first landed on the Miura Peninsula in 1253 — the head temple of Nichiren Buddhism in Miura, whose 11th abbot was the son of Ōta Dōkan

Chief guardian shrine of Yokosuka founded by Miura Sadamune in 1380 — the community's spiritual pillar through the feudal age and the turbulent Perry era alike