Shinagawa Lighthouse

Shinagawa Lighthouse
品川灯台

Shinagawa Lighthouse, now in Meiji Mura.
Japan
Location Shinagawa, Japan (former)
Meiji Mura (current)
Coordinates 35°20′29.9″N 136°59′38.9″E / 35.341639°N 136.994139°E / 35.341639; 136.994139Coordinates: 35°20′29.9″N 136°59′38.9″E / 35.341639°N 136.994139°E / 35.341639; 136.994139
Year first lit 5 March 1870
Deactivated 1957
Construction brick tower
Tower shape cylindrical tower with gallery and lantern
Markings / pattern white tower and lantern
Height 9 metres (30 ft)
Original lens 4th order Fresnel lens
Characteristic decorative light[1]

Shinagawa Lighthouse was a lighthouse in Shinagawa (品川第二砲台), south of Tokyo, Japan.

The lighthouse was the third of the 4 lighthouses built by French engineer Léonce Verny. It has now been relocated at the Meiji Mura near Nagoya.[2]

Later lighthouses would be built by the English engineer Richard Henry Brunton, until the Japanese would take over lighthouse construction from 1880[3]

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