| This page lists lighthouses of Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima, three prefectures near the northeastern corner of Honshū, Japan's largest island. This coast, facing east on the Pacific Ocean, is mostly rugged and spectacular--and dangerous to navigation. In Japanese, the word for a lighthouse is tōdai (or toudai). The words saki and misaki are for capes and headlands, shima (also spelled sima or jima) is an island, wan is a bay, and kō is a harbor. Lighthouses in Japan are operated and maintained by the Japanese Coast Guard's Maritime Safety Agency. On Honshū there is usually one Coast Guard Section Office in each prefecture. That is the case in this region, with section offices at Kamaishi in Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima. ARLHS numbers are from the ARLHS World List of Lights. JP numbers are the Japanese Coast Guard's light list numbers. Admiralty numbers are from volume M of the Admiralty List of Lights & Fog Signals. U.S. NGA List numbers are from Publication 112.
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Lighthouses of Iwate Prefecture
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![]() Kuro Saki Light; Japanese Coast Guard photo |
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![]() Todo Saki Light Japanese Coast Guard photo |
Lighthouses of Miyagi Prefecture
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![]() Rikuzen O Shima Light; Japanese Coast Guard photo |
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![]() Kinkasan Light; Japanese Coast Guard photo |
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![]() Ha Shima Light; Japanese Coast Guard photo |
Lighthouses of Fukushima Prefecture
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Posted August 15, 2006. Checked and revised June 13, 2009. Lighthouses: 43. Site copyright 2009 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.