page_title: Sagami Bay
section_title: Natural environment
hierarchical_section_title: Sagami Bay / Natural environment
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 箱根駒ヶ岳から望む相模湾English: Sagami Bay as seen from Mt.Komagatake, Hakone town, Kanagawa pref, Japan.
context_page_description: Sagami Bay lies south of Kanagawa Prefecture in Honshu, central Japan, contained within the scope of the Miura Peninsula, in Kanagawa, to the east, the Izu Peninsula, in Shizuoka Prefecture, to the west, and the Shōnan coastline to the north, while the island of Izu Ōshima marks the southern extent of the bay. It lies approximately 40 kilometres southwest of the capital, Tokyo. Cities on the bay include Odawara, Chigasaki, Fujisawa, Hiratsuka, Itō, and Kamakura.
context_section_description: A branch of the warm Kuroshio Current warms the bay, allowing it to host marine organisms typical of more southerly regions and giving a mild climate to the land bordering it. The maximum depth of Sagami Bay is about 1500 meters.
  Organisms from sub-arctic regions are advected into the bay by intrusions of the Oyashio Current resulting in very high biodiversity. It is the major study site for research programs at the University of Tokyo (ORI) and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC).
  In 2004, soil samples from Sagami Bay were found to contain radioactive contamination from the Bikini Atoll nuclear tests that took place from 1946 to 1958.
  The Hikiji River and Sakai River flow into the bay.
caption: Sagami Bay as seen from Mt. Komagatake (April 2008).
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