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Jōgashima Lighthouse
Jōgashima Lighthouse. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Jōgashima Lighthouse (Jōgashima tōdai) is a lighthouse located on the island of Jōgashima in the city of Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, off the southernmost and western tip of Miura Peninsula, facing Sagami Bay. It is the fourth oldest western style lighthouse to be built in Japan, and the second oldest surviving to the present day.

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