Sakai Lighthouse

i went to Sakai Lighthouse... it takes about one and half an hour ride... it was good exercise for me ..

taken at june 8th

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Former Sakai Lighthouse located at nipple of Sakai herbour was built at 1877. This Lighthouse was registered as National Historical Property at 1972 because this is one of wooden oldest western style lighthouse at the point from the time it built originally.
Work of the basement piled with stones and harbour infrastracture were leaded by Shinkichi TSUGIKUNI,Stonemasonry from Bizen,Okayama prefecture. Work of architecting lighthouse was leaded by Sataro OMAYU, carpenter living in Sakai. The part of light was bought from France via dormitory of lighthose in Yokohama. It was attached by an british engineer.
The capital to build the lighthouse was gathered as donation from people living in Sakai and supportive money from Sakai government.
For about 100 years after it was built, the lighthouse have given light to a lot of ships as landmark. But by the reculamation spread to the sea area, the lighthouse become useless for ships as landmark. So the light was turned off in1968.By the reservative redevelop of the lighthouse completed at 2008, thelighthouse show people the lighthouse built in 1877.