Sagami Bay

, also known as the Sagami Gulf or Sagami Sea, is an area of the Pacific coastline of the Japanese island of Honshu.   The bay is approximately  southwest of the capital, Tokyo.  

Underwater canyons extend out of Sagami Bay into the Pacific Ocean in a continuous slope called the "Sagami Trough".Draut, Amy E. et al. (2008).  Formation and Applications of the Sedimentary record in Arc Collision Zones, p. 168.

Major cities on the bay include Odawara, Chigasaki, Fujisawa, Hiratsuka, Ito, and Kamakura.

 History 
The center of the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923 was in Sagami Bay.Hammer, Joshua. (2006). Yokohama Burning, p. 278.

Related pages
 Shōnan
 Enoshima

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Category:Bays of Japan