Inubosaki Lighthouse

Inubosaki Lighthouse was completed in 1874 and stands at the tip of the cape of Inubozaki, which has long been called a difficult place on the sea because of its many small islands and reefs.

It is a Western-style lighthouse designed by Englishman R. H. Brunton, and 193,000 bricks were used for the lighthouse, annex, and quarters. The lighthouse is 31 meters high from the ground to the top, making it the tallest brick structure in Japan, second only to the Shiriyasaki Lighthouse.

It was selected as one of the 100 best lighthouses in the world and one of the 50 best lighthouses in Japan, and is an A-rank preserved lighthouse.
It is one of only 16 “climbable lighthouses” in Japan, and after being registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2010, it was designated as a National Important Cultural Property in 2020.

In building the lighthouse, Blanton considered using British-made bricks due to the inferior quality of domestic bricks, but Japanese engineers used high-quality local soil to produce superior bricks that were comparable to foreign products.