Tags: Lighthouse, Tower.
Omaezaki Lighthouse (御前埼灯台 Omaezaki tōdai) is a lighthouse located on a hill at the outermost extremity of Cape Omaezaki south of Omaezaki port Shizuoka Prefecture Japan.A lighthouse was built at Cape Omaezaki as early as 1635 when the Tokugawa Shogunate recognized the frequency of marine accidents on the rocks off the coast of Tōtōmi Province. The Omaezaki Lighthouse was one of the 26 lighthouses to be built in Meiji period Japan by British engineer Richard Henry Brunton.
