After the Meiji Restoration, the town of Misaki within Miura District, Kanagawa was created on April 1, 1889.

The area was badly shaken during the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, which had its epicenter in Sagami Bay just a few kilometers offshore from the city.

The whole geographical area around the city was lifted by about 10 meters by tectonic movement, before subsiding to its original level during the next few days.

On January 1, 1955, Misaki absorbed neighboring Minami-Shitaura Town and Hasse Village to create the city of Miura.

Miura came to some infamy in 2001 after the dismembered body of Lucie Blackman was found in a seaside cave a few hundred meters from the apartment of serial rapist, Joji Obara.

The school trains students in one of four commercial fisheries skills: radio communications, engineering, food processing, and ocean fishing.