Taitōsaki Lighthouse

What it is

• A white circular medium-sized lighthouse tower located at Taito Cape in Chiba Prefecture.
• The current structure is the second generation lighthouse, established in November nineteen fifty.
• The facility stands on a fifty-eight meter high cliff within Minami Boso Quasi-National Park.
• It was moved one hundred meters inland from its original position due to coastal erosion.

What to see

• A sixteen meter tall white tower that projects light twenty-one nautical miles out to sea.
• Panoramic views of the coastline from the surrounding quasi-national park grounds.
• The unmanned facility and its grounds situated on a high coastal cliff.

Getting there

• The lighthouse is located four kilometers from JR Taito Station.
• An onsite parking lot is available for approximately ten cars.

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.