
Nippon Maru - Yokohama, Japan
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N 35° 27.223 E 139° 37.938
54S E 375884 N 3924220
A sail training ship from 1930.
Waymark Code: WMMG6P
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Date Posted: 09/16/2014
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The Nippon Maru was in service as a sail training ship for over 50 years. During this time, it travelled about 1,830,000 km and around 11,500 people were trained on it.
Today, it is permanently docked in the port of Yokohama in front of the Yokohama port museum.
[Source: Tokio Guidebook (
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