Sagami Bay

Sagami Bay opens southward to the Pacific between the shores of Izu and the Miura Peninsula. Its sandy northern coast contrasts with rocky shores farther west, and the seabed drops steeply into the deep Sagami Trough. Branches of the warm Kuroshio Current enter the bay, where coastal reefs and submarine valleys provide fishing grounds for mackerel, horse mackerel and yellowtail. Fishing villages have long occupied the surrounding shores.