| Smallest of the Japanese main islands, Shikoku is divided into four prefectures. This page includes lighthouses of northern Ehime Prefecture, a coastline facing north on the Inland Sea. This is a scenic and well populated coast with numerous harbors. In Japanese, the word for a lighthouse is tōdai or toudai (灯台). 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. There is at least one Coast Guard Section Office in each prefecture, often two or more. 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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Western Inland Sea Lighthouses
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![]() Tsurushima Light; Japanese Coast Guard photo |
Imabari City (Kurushima Strait) Lighthouses
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![]() Ōge Shima Light; Japanese Coast Guard photo |
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![]() Uzu Hana Light Japanese Coast Guard photo |
Ochi District (Hiuchi Bay) Lighthouses
Information available on lost lighthouses:
Notable faux lighthouses:
Adjoining pages: North: Okayama and Hiroshima | East: Kagawa | South: Kōchi | West: Western Ehime
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Posted May 28, 2007. Checked and revised January 9, 2012. Lighthouses: 41. Site copyright 2012 Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.