Maizuru

Maizuru lies along Maizuru Bay on Japan’s Sea of Japan coast, where sheltered inlets cut into the wooded hills of northern Kyoto Prefecture. The city developed as a naval port, and its red-brick warehouses in the eastern district preserve architecture associated with the former Imperial Japanese Navy. Maizuru Port also holds an important postwar story: from 1945 to 1956, it received Japanese repatriates returning from overseas after the Second World War. That experience is documented at the Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Museum, whose related records are listed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. See how Maizuru connects with the wider Kyoto Prefecture coast by browsing webcams nearby.

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