Cape Kannon-zaki is located on the eastern edge of Miura Peninsula, at the entrance of Tokyo Bay. In 1812 the Tokugawa Shogunate set up a lookout here to protect Edo from Western ships. After Japan opened her doors to the rest of the world, a lighthouse was built under the guidance of French technologists, F. L. Verny. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1922. A second lighthouse was soon destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. The one we can see today is the third one, made in 1925.
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Kannon-zaki Lighthouse
The entrance of Tokyo Bay
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