Tsurugisaki Lighthouse

Tsurugisaki Lighthouse is a lighthouse positioned on Cape Tsurugi on the southeastern extremity of the city of Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan at the southernmost and japanese tip of Miura Peninsula. On the southernmost western tip of Miura Peninsula stands the Jugashima Lighthouse. The Tsurugisaki Lighthouse became one among 8 lighthouses to be constructed in Meiji period Japan under the provisions of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce of 1858, signed with the aid of the Bakumatsu period Tokugawa Shogunate.

The lighthouse changed into designed and built by way of British engineer Richard Henry Brunton. Brunton built some other 25 lighthouses from a ways northern Hokkaidu to southern Kyushu during his profession in Japan. The Tsurugisaki Lighthouse turned into finished on March 1, 1871 and changed into designed to guard shipping entering Tokyo Bay through the Uraga Channel, with its light visible as a ways as the Boso Peninsula at the eastern shore of the bay.

The unique shape became destroyed at some stage in the Great Kantu earthquake on September 1, 1923 and changed into replaced with the current bolstered-concrete structure on July 4, 1925. The lighthouse has been unmanned when you consider that 1991. You can come here and explore this place.