Tokyo bay. Japan

Gulf of the Pacific Ocean off the southeastern coast of the island of Honshu (Japan); separated from the open ocean by the Boso Peninsula. Narrow (up to 9 km) is connected by the Uraga Strait to Sagami-Nada Bay. Length about 50 km, width up to 37 km. Depth 15-30 m. The shores are low. The river flows Arakawa. On the bank of the T. z. - cities and ports: Tokyo, Kawasaki, Yokohama (or Keihin), Yokosuka, Chiba.

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Near Tokyo Bay is the world's largest agglomeration of the capital Tokyo, in which 33 million people live. The bay stretches from north to south for 60 km, and from west to east for 40 km. It also contains one of the largest ports in Asia, namely the port of Yokohama. In the east, the bay is separated from the open ocean by the Boso Peninsula. Access from one side of the bay to the other is via the Tōkyō-wan-Aqua-Line, a unique combination of a bridge and a tunnel.

Geography

Tokyo Bay in the broad (blue + pink) and narrow sense (pink).

In a broad sense, Tokyo Bay is a body of water north of the line connecting Cape Tsurugi ("Cape of the Sword") of the Miura Peninsula and Cape Su ("Island Cape") of the Boso Peninsula, including the Uragawa Strait. The area of ​​this space is 1,320 km².

In a narrow sense, Tokyo Bay is a body of water north of the line connecting Cape Kannon (“Cape of the Bodhisattva Kannon”) of the Miura Peninsula and Cape Fuzzu (“Cape of the Rich Port”) of the Boso Peninsula. The area of ​​this space is 922 km².

Infrastructure

There are many ports in Tokyo Bay. The largest ports are Yokohama, Tokyo, Chiba, Kawasaki, Yokosuka and Kisarazu. The port of Yokosuka is home to the naval base of the US Armed Forces in Japan and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

The bay has access to Kanagawa Prefecture, Tokyo and Chiba. On the coasts of these prefectures are located the factories and enterprises of the Tokyo-Yokohama industrial region, an important economic center of Japan since the 19th century.

Since ancient times, the sandy and shallow shores and watts of Tokyo Bay have been reclaimed by local residents. Since the 21st century, the area of ​​reclaimed land has been 249 km². The areas reclaimed from the sea include Tokyo Haneda International Airport and Tokyo Disneyland, a third of the area of ​​the city of Urayasu, and the entire Mihama district of Chiba city. Traditionally, the reclaimed zones were used for industrial enterprises, but after the 1990s they serve as sleeping areas, trade centers, etc.

Tokyo Bay is an important transport and trade hub. The cities and the underwater tunnel Aqua-Line of Tokyo Bay pass through the cities of Kawasaki and Kisazaru. Ferries connect both sides of the Uragawa Strait.

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In the 5th - 4th millennium BC. e. in connection with the melting of the last glacier, the waters of Tokyo Bay occupied an area one and a half times larger than the modern one, deeply wedged into the riverbeds of the Kanto Plain. With a gradual cooling, the bay acquired today's outlines. Until the 19th century, the coastline was removed from the modern one by 10-20 km deep into the island of Honshu.

In the 16th and 19th centuries, Tokyo Bay was called the Edo Sea, Edo Bay, or Inner Bay, as it was in front of Edo Castle, the main stronghold of the Tokugawa shogunate.

In the 1980s, Tokyo Bay became the site of negotiations between the Japanese government and foreign delegations, which led to the curtailment of Japan's "isolation" from the West.

On September 2, 1945, Japan's surrender was signed on board the USS Missouri, which ended World War II.

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tokyo bay mentioned in the novel "Isle of the Dead" by Roger Zelazny

… life strongly reminds me of the coast of Tokyo Bay… I remember a vast expanse of stinking muddy water, cold and slimy to the touch, perhaps a little clearer and clearer further from the shore. Like Time, water sometimes extracts a variety of objects from non-existence, sometimes hides them back. Every day, the waves of Tokyo Bay throw something ashore. Whatever you call it, sooner or later the water will wash it on the sand: a dead man, shells - white as alabaster, pink or yellow, like pumpkins, they curled ominously into a terrible-looking horn, which, however, is as harmless as the horn of a unicorn; a bottle, sometimes with a note, which most often could no longer be read; human fetus; a piece of polished wood with a hole from a nail - perhaps a particle of that same Holy Cross; white pebbles, dark pebbles, dead fish, empty fishing boats, pieces of rope, corals, algae - the word "do not count the pearls ..." and so on. If you leave an object alone, the sea will soon take it back. These are the rules of the game.

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  • 100 views of Tokyo Bay. (jap.)
  • Interactive map of Tokyo Bay. (jap.)
  • Endo Tsuyoshi. History of land reclamation in Tokyo Bay // Geographical Journal. 2004 (Japanese)
  • Tokyo Bay Environmental Information Center of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation of Japan. (jap.)
  • Environmental information website of the Tokyo Bay Coast Guard. (jap.)

Coordinates : 35°25' N. sh. 139°47′ E d. /  35.416667° N sh. 139.783333° E d.(G)(O)35.416667 , 139.783333


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    Pacific Ocean, off the southeast coast of the island of Honshu (Japan). Uraga Strait is connected to Sagami Nada Bay. Length about 50 km, width up to 37 km, depth 15 30 m. Ports: Tokyo, Kawasaki, Yokohama, Yokosuka. * * * TOKYO BAY TOKYO BAY ... encyclopedic Dictionary

    Gulf of the Pacific Ocean off the southeastern coast of the island of Honshu (Japan); separated from the open ocean by the Boso Peninsula. The narrow (up to 9 km) Uraga Strait is connected to the Sagami Nada Bay. Length about 50 km, width up to 37 km. Depth 15 30 m.… … Great Soviet Encyclopedia

    - (Tokyo Bay), in the Pacific Ocean, off the southeast. the coast of Honshu (Japan). Length approx. 50 km, width up to 37 km, depth 15–30 m. The shores are low. Pl. the bay is gradually reduced as a result of backfilling of shallow waters. and household waste with subsequent ... ... Geographic Encyclopedia

    OK. off the southeast coast of Honshu (Japan). The Uraga Strait is connected to the hall. Sagami Nada. Length approx. 50 km, width up to 37 km, depth 15 30 m. Ports: Tokyo, Kawasaki, Yokohama, Yokosuka … Big Encyclopedic Dictionary

    I MAP OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE. Contents: I. Physical essay. 1. Composition, space, coastline. 2. Orography. 3. Hydrography. 4. Climate. 5. Vegetation. 6. Fauna. II. Population. 1. Statistics. 2. Anthropology. III. Economic essay. one … Encyclopedic Dictionary F.A. Brockhaus and I.A. Efron

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TOKYO BAY Pacific ca. off the southeast coast of Honshu (Japan). The Uraga Strait is connected to the hall. Sagami-Nada. Length approx. 50 km, width up to 37 km, depth 15-30 m. Ports: Tokyo, Kawasaki, Yokohama, Yokosuka. THE TOKYO PROCESS The trial of the main Japanese war criminals, which took place in Tokyo on May 3, 1946 - November 12, 1948, at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. The Tokyo Trials exposed the expansionist plans and aggressive aspirations of the Japanese militarists. The defendants were found guilty and sentenced: 7 - to death (including former prime ministers Tojo and Hirota), 2 (Togo and Shigemitsu) - to long prison terms, 16 - to life imprisonment.

tokyo bay

Gulf of the Pacific Ocean off the southeastern coast of the island of Honshu (Japan); separated from the open ocean by the Boso Peninsula. The narrow (up to 9 km) Uraga Strait is connected to the Sagami-Nada Bay. Length about 50 km, width up to 37 km. Depth 15≈30 m. The shores are low. The river flows Arakawa. On the bank of the T. z. ≈ cities and ports: Tokyo, Kawasaki, Yokohama (or Keihin), Yokosuka, Chiba.

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tokyo bay

tokyo bay- a bay on the Pacific coast of Japan. Near Tokyo Bay is the world's largest agglomeration of the capital Tokyo, which is home to 33 million people. The bay stretches from north to south for 60 km, and from west to east for 40 km. It also houses one of the largest ports in Asia, namely the port of Yokohama. In the east, the bay is separated from the open ocean by the Boso Peninsula. Access from one side of the bay to the other is via the Tōkyō-wan-Aqua-Line, a unique combination of a bridge and a tunnel.

Access from one side of the bay to the other is via the Tōkyō-wan-Aqua-Line, a unique combination of a bridge and a tunnel.

Geography

In a broad sense, Tokyo Bay is a body of water north of the line connecting Cape Tsurugi ("Cape of the Sword") of the Miura Peninsula and Cape Su ("Island Cape") of the Boso Peninsula, including the Uragawa Strait. The area of ​​this space is 1,320 km².

In a narrow sense, Tokyo Bay is a body of water north of the line connecting Cape Kannon (“Cape of the Bodhisattva Kannon”) of the Miura Peninsula and Cape Fuzzu (“Cape of the Rich Port”) of the Boso Peninsula. The area of ​​this space is 922 km².

Infrastructure

There are many ports in Tokyo Bay. The largest ports are Yokohama, Tokyo, Chiba, Kawasaki, Yokosuka and Kisarazu. The port of Yokosuka is home to the naval base of the US Armed Forces in Japan and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

The bay has access to Kanagawa Prefecture, Tokyo and Chiba. On the coasts of these prefectures, there are factories and enterprises of the Tokyo-Yokohama industrial region, an important economic center of Japan since the 19th century.

Since ancient times, the sandy and shallow shores and watts of Tokyo Bay have been reclaimed by local residents. Since the 21st century, the area of ​​reclaimed land has been 249 km². The areas reclaimed from the sea include Tokyo Haneda International Airport and Tokyo Disneyland, a third of the area of ​​the city of Urayasu, and the entire Mihama district of Chiba city. Traditionally, the reclaimed zones were used for industrial enterprises, but after the 1990s they serve as sleeping areas, trade centers, etc.

Tokyo Bay is an important transport and trade hub. The cities and the underwater tunnel Aqua-Line of Tokyo Bay pass through the cities of Kawasaki and Kisazaru. Ferries connect both sides of the Uragawa Strait.

Story

In 5-4 millennia BC. e. in connection with the melting of the last glacier, the waters of Tokyo Bay occupied an area one and a half times larger than the modern one, deeply wedged into the riverbeds of the Kanto Plain. With a gradual cooling, the bay acquired today's outlines. Until the 19th century, the coastline was removed from the modern one by 10-20 km deep into the island of Honshu. Tokyo Bay is mentioned in the chronicles of the 11th century as a strategically important area, one of the maritime regions of Eastern Japan. In the XIV-XVI centuries, Japanese pirates were active here. In the 16th century, the bay was the site of constant battles between the samurai flotillas of the Satomi and Hojo clans.

In the 16th-19th centuries, Tokyo Bay was called the Edo Sea, Edo Bay, or Inner Bay, as it was in front of Edo Castle, the main stronghold of the Tokugawa shogunate.

… life strongly reminds me of the coast of Tokyo Bay… I remember a vast expanse of stinking muddy water, cold and slimy to the touch, perhaps a little clearer and clearer further from the shore. Like Time, water sometimes extracts a variety of objects from non-existence, sometimes hides them back. Every day, the waves of Tokyo Bay throw something ashore. Whatever you call it, sooner or later the water will wash it on the sand: a dead man, shells - white as alabaster, pink or yellow, like pumpkins, they curled ominously into a terrible-looking horn, which, however, is as harmless as the horn of a unicorn; a bottle, sometimes with a note, which most often could no longer be read; human fetus; a piece of polished wood with a hole from a nail - perhaps a particle of that same Holy Cross; white pebbles, dark pebbles, dead fish, empty fishing boats, pieces of rope, corals, algae - the word "do not count the pearls ..." and so on. If you leave an object alone, the sea will soon take it back. These are the rules of the game.

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- To what ... to what they brought! - Kutuzov suddenly said in an excited voice, obviously clearly imagining, from the story of Prince Andrei, the situation in which Russia was. “Give me time, give me time,” he added with an angry expression on his face and, obviously not wanting to continue this conversation that worried him, he said: “I called you in to keep you with me.
“I thank your grace,” answered Prince Andrei, “but I’m afraid that I’m no longer fit for headquarters,” he said with a smile that Kutuzov noticed. Kutuzov looked at him questioningly. “And most importantly,” added Prince Andrei, “I got used to the regiment, fell in love with the officers, and the people, it seems, fell in love with me. I would be sorry to leave the regiment. If I refuse the honor of being with you, then believe me ...
An intelligent, kind, and at the same time subtly mocking expression shone on Kutuzov's plump face. He interrupted Bolkonsky:
- I'm sorry, I would need you; but you're right, you're right. We don't need people here. There are always many advisers, but there are no people. The regiments would not be like this if all the advisers served there in the regiments, like you. I remember you from Austerlitz ... I remember, I remember, I remember with the banner, ”said Kutuzov, and a joyful flush rushed into the face of Prince Andrei at this memory. Kutuzov pulled him by the hand, offering him his cheek, and again Prince Andrei saw tears in the eyes of the old man. Although Prince Andrei knew that Kutuzov was weak in tears and that he now especially caresses him and pities him because of the desire to show sympathy for his loss, Prince Andrei was both joyful and flattering in this memory of Austerlitz.
- Go with God on your own path. I know your road is the road of honor. He paused. - I felt sorry for you in Bucarest: I should have sent. - And, changing the conversation, Kutuzov began to talk about the Turkish war and the peace concluded. - Yes, they reproached me a lot, - said Kutuzov, - both for the war and for peace ... but everything came on time. Tout vient a point a celui qui sait attendre. [Everything comes on time for someone who knows how to wait.] And there were no less advisers there than here ... - he continued, returning to the advisers, who apparently occupied him. - Oh, advisers, advisers! - he said. If we had listened to everyone, we would not have concluded peace there, in Turkey, and we would not have ended the war. Everything is faster, and the soon comes out for a long time. If Kamensky had not died, he would have disappeared. He stormed the fortresses with thirty thousand. It is not difficult to take a fortress, it is difficult to win a campaign. And for this you do not need to storm and attack, but you need patience and time. Kamensky sent soldiers to Ruschuk, and I sent them alone (patience and time) and took more fortresses than Kamensky, and forced the horse meat of the Turks to eat. He shook his head. And the French will too! Believe my word, - Kutuzov said, inspired, hitting his chest, - I will eat horse meat! And again his eyes filled with tears.
“However, will it be necessary to accept the battle?” - said Prince Andrew.
- It will be necessary, if everyone wants it, there is nothing to do ... But, my dear: there is no stronger than those two warriors, patience and time; they will do everything, but advisers n "entendent pas de cette oreille, voila le mal. [they don't hear with this ear - that's what's bad.] Some want it, others don't. What to do?" he asked, apparently waiting for an answer. "Yes, what do you order to do?" he repeated, and his eyes shone with a deep, intelligent expression. "I'll tell you what to do," he said, since Prince Andrei still did not answer. "I'll tell you what to do and what am I doing. Dans le doute, mon cher, - he paused, - abstiens toi, [In doubt, my dear, refrain.] - he said with a pause.
- Well, goodbye, my friend; remember that I carry your loss with you with all my heart and that I am not your brightest, not a prince and not a commander in chief, but I am your father. If you need anything, come straight to me. Farewell, dove. He hugged and kissed him again. And even before Prince Andrei had time to go out the door, Kutuzov sighed reassuringly and again took up Madame Genlis's unfinished novel Les chevaliers du Cygne.
How and why this happened, Prince Andrei could not explain in any way; but after this meeting with Kutuzov, he returned to his regiment reassured about the general course of the case and about the one to whom it was entrusted. The more he saw the absence of everything personal in this old man, in whom there seemed to be only the habits of passions and instead of the mind (grouping events and drawing conclusions) only the ability to calmly contemplate the course of events, the more he was calm that everything would be the way it was. should be. “He won’t have anything of his own. He won’t invent anything, he won’t do anything, thought Prince Andrei, but he will listen to everything, remember everything, put everything in its place, won’t interfere with anything useful and won’t allow anything harmful. He understands that there is something stronger and more significant than his will - this is the inevitable course of events, and he knows how to see them, knows how to understand their significance and, in view of this significance, knows how to renounce participation in these events, from his personal waves aimed at other. And most importantly, thought Prince Andrei, why do you believe him, is that he is Russian, despite the Janlis novel and French sayings; it is that his voice trembled when he said: “What have they brought!”, and that he sobbed, saying that he would “make them eat horse meat”. On the same feeling, which everyone more or less vaguely experienced, was based the unanimity and general approval that accompanied the popular, contrary court considerations, the election of Kutuzov to the commander in chief.

After the departure of the sovereign from Moscow, Moscow life flowed in the same, usual order, and the course of this life was so usual that it was difficult to recall the former days of patriotic enthusiasm and enthusiasm, and it was difficult to believe that Russia was really in danger and that the members of the English Club were together. with this, the sons of the fatherland, ready for him for any sacrifice. One thing that reminded of the general enthusiastic patriotic mood during the Emperor's stay in Moscow was the demand for donations in people and money, which, as soon as they were made, took on a legal, official form and seemed inevitable.
As the enemy approached Moscow, the Muscovites' view of their situation not only did not become more serious, but, on the contrary, even more frivolous, as is always the case with people who see a great danger approaching. When danger approaches, two voices always speak equally strongly in a person’s soul: one very reasonably says that a person should consider the very nature of the danger and the means to get rid of it; the other says even more sensibly that it is too hard and painful to think about danger, while it is not in the power of man to foresee everything and save himself from the general course of affairs, and therefore it is better to turn away from the difficult until it has come, and think about the pleasant. In solitude, a person for the most part gives himself to the first voice, in society, on the contrary, to the second. So it was now with the inhabitants of Moscow. For a long time they did not have so much fun in Moscow as this year.

In which 33 million people live. The bay stretches from north to south for 60 km, and from west to east for 40 km. It also contains one of the largest ports in Asia, namely the port of Yokohama. In the east, the bay is separated from the open ocean by the Boso Peninsula. Access from one side of the bay to the other is via the Tōkyō-wan-Aqua-Line, a unique combination of a bridge and a tunnel.

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Satellite image of Tokyo Bay
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35°25′00″ s. sh. 139°47′00″ E d. HGIOL
Upstream water areaPacific Ocean
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Geography

In a broad sense, Tokyo Bay is a body of water north of the line connecting Cape Tsurugi ("Cape of the Sword") of the Miura Peninsula and Cape Su ("Island Cape") of the Boso Peninsula, including the Uragawa Strait. The area of ​​this space is 1320 km².

In a narrow sense, Tokyo Bay is a body of water north of the line connecting Cape Kannon (“Cape of the Bodhisattva Kannon”) of the Miura Peninsula and Cape Fuzzu (“Cape of the Rich Port”) of the Boso Peninsula. The area of ​​this space is 922 km².

Infrastructure

There are many ports in Tokyo Bay. The largest ports are Yokohama, Tokyo, Chiba, Kawasaki, Yokosuka and Kisarazu. The port of Yokosuka is home to the naval base of the US Armed Forces in Japan and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

The bay has access to Kanagawa Prefecture, Tokyo and Chiba. On the coasts of these prefectures, there are factories and enterprises of the Tokyo-Yokohama industrial region, an important economic center of Japan since the 19th century.

Since ancient times, the sandy and shallow shores and watts of Tokyo Bay have been reclaimed by local residents. Since the 21st century, the area of ​​reclaimed land has been 249 km². The areas reclaimed from the sea include Tokyo Haneda International Airport and Tokyo Disneyland, a third of the area of ​​the city of Urayasu and the entire Mihama district of Chiba city. Traditionally, reclaimed areas were used for industrial enterprises, but after the 1990s they serve as bedroom communities, trade centers, and so on.

Tokyo Bay is an important transport and trade hub. The cities and the underwater tunnel Aqua-Line of Tokyo Bay pass through the cities of Kawasaki and Kisazaru. Ferries connect both sides of the Uragawa Strait.

Story

In 5-4 millennia BC. e. in connection with the melting of the last glacier, the waters of Tokyo Bay occupied an area one and a half times larger than the modern one, deeply wedged into the riverbeds of the Kanto Plain. With a gradual cooling, the bay acquired today's outlines. Until the 19th century, the coastline was removed from the modern one by 10-20 km deep into the island of Honshu. [ ]

Tokyo Bay is mentioned in the chronicles of the 11th century as a strategically important area, one of the maritime regions of Eastern Japan. In the XIV-XVI centuries, Japanese pirates were active here. In the 16th century, the bay was the site of constant battles between the samurai flotillas of the Satomi and Hojo clans.

In the 16th-19th centuries, Tokyo Bay was called the Edo Sea, Edo Bay or Inner Bay, as it was in front of