Esaki Lighthouse

Please note that even if you climb hard, you are prohibited from entering the top! !!

Original Text

It is a lighthouse at the northernmost tip of Awaji Island. I like the lighthouse, so I felt light, so I started climbing the stairs from the parking lot at the foot of the mountain and headed up. Since I climbed without preliminary research, the length of the stone stairs became quite difficult from the middle. I couldn't see the future because I had bad eyes, but when I counted it on my way home, there were 185 steps. The worst thing is that after climbing, there is a notation that you are prohibited from entering at the entrance gate! !! But there was no chain, so if you ignore it and go inside, it's very ...

it was a large white stone lighthouse.

Original Text

The "Osaka Treaty" with the United Kingdom concluded by unreliable Meiji government officials in the early Meiji period forced the opening of the port to build a new ５ lighthouse. One of them is this lighthouse. Others include Rokurenjima, Bezaki, Tomo ｹ Island, and Cape Wada. １８６７ It was signed in 1871 and was first lit, and it seems that the oil lamp was originally designed by Henry Brandt as a light source. The Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake caused great damage, and the stone steps to the lighthouse were also greatly blurred by the deviation of the Nojima fault ...