Old Sakai Lighthouse

A Fifteen-minute stroll from Sakai Station on the Nankai Railway. The old Sakai Lighthouse was worked in the tenth year of the Meiji Era 1877 at the tip of the old Sakai Port, rising 11.3 meters high. It is one of the most seasoned wooden Western-style beacons as yet staying, alongside the old Anorizaki Lighthouse and Fukuura Lighthouse. This beacon was worked in the meantime when beacons were being worked in different places around the season of the opening of Japan with the landing of Commodore Perry, so remote boats could explore securely. The outline was by an English designer named Biggleston, and its development charge was paid for by gifts and so forth from natives. At the time, a lamp fuel light was utilized, and its greenish light is said to have come to far out to ocean.