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In 1854 Perry duly negotiated the Treaty of Kanagawa (now part of Yokohama), opening up two ports, Shimoda on the Izu Peninsula and Hakodate in Hokkaido.
The monument to Perry and Harris, not far from the harbor, celebrates these epochal events, as does Shimoda’s annual Kurobune Matsuri (“Black Ship Festival”) in May.
The shogunate bowed to the pressure and agreed to accept American diplomat Townsend Harris, who established the first US consulate at Gyokusenji temple in Shimoda in 1856.
In fact, charming though it still is today as a fishing port and yacht harbor, Shimoda was worthless from the commercial or diplomatic perspective.
Shimoda, at the southern tip of the peninsula, is famous in still another historical context.