Kinkasan
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Satoh Junpei, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Miyagi, Japan
- Also known as: “Kinkasan-tō”, “Kinkazan-tō”, and “Mount Kinka”
- Historically known as: “Kinka San Island”, “Kinkuwasan Island”, and “Kinkwazan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kinkasan Lighthouse and Koganeyama Shrine (Ishinomaki).
Kinkasan Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.1 jp.
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.
Koganeyama Shrine (Ishinomaki)
Shinto shrine
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Koganeyama Shrine (Ishinomaki) is a Shinto shrine.
Kinkasan
- Categories: sacred mountain and landform
- Location: Miyagi, Tohoku, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Spanish—“Kinkasan” goes by many names.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kinkasan”. Photo: Satoh Junpei, CC BY-SA 3.0.