Japan's Lighthouses & Coastal Landmarks

About this book

Two hundred real Japanese sea-edge landmarks — the brick tower of Inubosaki and the strait light of Kannonzaki, Brunton's Meiji towers and the great lenses of Muroto and Hinomisaki, the wind capes of Soya, Erimo and Ashizuri, the whirlpools of Naruto, the volcano shore of Sakurajima, the vanishing sandbar of Yurigahama and the last lighthouse light of Yonaguni — each told the same four ways, and told in depth: The Light & Its Story (what the place is, when its light began and what water it watches), What to Look For (the structure, the view or the phenomenon that repays attention), Walking the Coast & Local Food (how to take the place on foot and what its district eats), and Visiting & Cautions (a practical outline, checked November 2026, never a promise).

Travel guides give you Inubosaki and Shionomisaki and stop. Japanese lighthouse books are deep and have no English edition. This is the missing book: Japan's coasts read from their lights and capes, 200 sites, every entry over 200 words — in fact over 340 — at $9.99. Learn to read a tower's generation from its form, a strait from its current lines, a cape from its terraces and arches, and discover that the small light at the end of a fishing town's road often teaches the sea more honestly than a celebrated resort shore.

Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.