Cape Myōgane (明鐘岬, Myōgane-misaki) is a cape located on the border of Futtsu and Kyonan, Chiba, Japan, where Mount Nokogiri on its western end precipitously falls into the Uraga Channel to Tokyo Bay.

[1] Cape Myōgane, due to its strategic location over the Uraga Channel, was also a noted defensive position.

[1] Cape Myōgane, due to its strategic location over the Uraga Channel, was also a noted defensive position.

[3] Currently three tunnels (Motona, Shiofuki and Myōgane) allow safe passage by road via National Route 127.

At the beginning of the Edo period (1603–1868) the Tokugawa shogunate took direct control of the fisheries of the area at and around near Cape Myōgane, and designated Tateyama to the south as a market and shipping point for marine products to the Edo capitol.