Kinkasan Lighthouse
Kinkasan Lighthouse is a lighthouse on Kinkasan, an island off the Oshika Peninsula in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan. The Kinkasan Lighthouse was one of 26 lighthouses designed and built in Meiji period Japan by the British engineer Richard Henry Brunton.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.1 jp.
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in Japan
- Historically known as: “Kinka San Light” and “Kinkuwa San Light”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kinkasan and Koganeyama Shrine (Ishinomaki).
Kinkasan
Photo: Satoh Junpei, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kinkasan is a small mountainous island at the tip of the Oshika Peninsula, part of Ishinomaki City. It's not far from Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
Koganeyama Shrine (Ishinomaki)
Shinto shrine
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Koganeyama Shrine (Ishinomaki) is a Shinto shrine, which is situated 3½ km northwest of Kinkasan Lighthouse.
Kinkasan Lighthouse
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Tohoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
38.27659° or 38° 16′ 36″ northLongitude
141.58406° or 141° 35′ 3″ eastElevation
32 metres (105 feet)Inception
November 1st, 1876Open location code
8RC37HGM+JJOpenStreetMap ID
node 4520597005OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouseGeoNames ID
9859042Wikidata ID
Q6413910
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From French to Japanese—“Kinkasan Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- French: “phare de Kinkasan”
- French: “Phare de Kinkasan”
- Japanese: “金華山灯台”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Turtle’s Rock and 鹿山.
Nearby Places
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