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Kurihama Station is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). Lines Kurihama Station is served by the Yokosuka Line. It is the southern terminus of the line and is located 2 ...

.'' is an area in the city of

Yokosuka is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the city has a population of 409,478, and a population density of . The total area is . Yokosuka is the 11th most populous city in the Greater Tokyo Area, and the 12th in the Kantō region. The city ...

Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...

, Japan. Kurihama is the location where

Matthew C. Perry Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was a commodore of the United States Navy who commanded ships in several wars, including the War of 1812 and the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). He played a leading role in the o ...

landed for his first negotiations for the

opening of Japan was the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended. Between 1853 and 1867, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government. ...

on July 14, 1853. "Perry Ceremony Today; Japanese and U. S. Officials to Mark 100th Anniversary."
''New York Times.'' July 14, 1953, A large monument was erected in 1901 to commemorate the event, and a small museum was opened in 1987. The Yokosuka Thermal Power Station is located at Kurihama. File:Kurihama port yokosuka japan.jpg, Kurihama ferry terminal File:KurihamaShōtengai 1.JPG, Kurihama commercial district

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