Gifted by Yokohama in 1958, the Japanese Friendship Bell stands on Point Loma's Shelter Island at the western cul-de-sac of Shelter Island Drive as a cast-bronze monument to the first West Coast sister-city relationship. The 4,600-pound bronze, cast by Japanese Living National Treasure Masahiko Katori, was delivered to San Diego aboard the U.S.S. Prairie and now anchors the public art walk along Shoreline Park. Unlike Western bells it carries no internal clapper: the ram is suspended horizontally from v-shaped chains inside the pagoda and pulled back with a lanyard before release to strike a raised surface on the bronze. First tolled on December 10, 1960 by Bishop Yamada of the Zen Shu Buddhist Temple with 18 traditional gongs for good luck, the bell is now rung in public ceremony by the San Diego-Yokohama Sister City Society on New Year's Eve. Adjacent to the pagoda sits the 2009 'Girl in Red Shoes' bronze sculpture by Munehiro Komeno, extending a cross-cultural heritage circuit on the peninsula that also traces the tuna-fishing legacy preserved at the Portuguese Historical Center. The signature public event is the New Year's Eve ringing, when Sister City Society members and visitors gather at the pagoda for the traditional joya no kane bell-tolling that closes the old year.