Hesaki Lighthouse

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Hesaki Lighthouse
部埼灯台

Hesaki Lighthouse

Location	Moji-ku, Kitakyūshū, Japan
Coordinates	33°57′33.7″N 131°01′22.4″E / 33.959361°N 131.022889°E / 33.959361; 131.022889
Year first constructed	1871
Year first lit	January 22, 1871 (1871-01-22)
Construction	Granite
Markings / pattern	White
Height	9.7 metres (32 ft)
Focal height	39.1 metres (128 ft)
Original lens	Third order Fresnel
Intensity	180,000 Candela (Flash) 7,000 Candela (Fixed light)
Range	17 nautical miles (31 km; 20 mi)
Characteristic	F. Fl.(1) 15s
Japan number	5409 [F5312]

Hesaki Lighthouse (部埼灯台, hesaki tōdai) is a lighthouse on the Kiku Peninsual in Moji-ku, Kitakyūshū in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Notes

v t e Lighthouses of Japan

Early Meiji lighthouses (Léonce Verny)	Kannonzaki Lighthouse (1869) Nojimazaki Lighthouse (1869) Shinagawa Lighthouse (1870) Jōgashima Lighthouse (1870)

Later Meiji lighthouses (“Brunton’s Children”)	Kashinozaki Lighthouse (1870) Tsurugisaki Lighthouse (1871) Esaki Lighthouse (1871) Hesaki Lighthouse (1871) Mikomotoshima Lighthouse (1871) Irōzaki Lighthouse (1871) Iojimazaki Lighthouse (1871) Satamisaki Lighthouse (1871) Nosappumisaki Lighthouse (1872) Tomogashima Lighthouse (1872) Mutsurejima Lighthouse (1872) Shirasu Lighthouse (1873) Sugashima Lighthouse (1873) Anorisaki Lighthouse (1873) Tsurushima Lighthouse (1873) Shionomisaki Lighthouse (1873) Inubōsaki Lighthouse (1874) Omaezaki Lighthouse (1874) Eboshijima Lighthouse (1875) Shiriyazaki Lighthouse (1876) Kinkasan Lighthouse (1876) Tsunoshima Lighthouse (1876)

Taisho period lighthouses	Sunosaki Lighthouse (1919) Nomazaki Lighthouse (1921)

Modern lighthouses	Yokohama Marine Tower (1961)

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