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Built in 1873 and at 19.55 meters, this Meiji-era lighthouse served as an important marker for ships entering Osaka Bay.
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串本応挙芦雪館 Kushimoto Ōkyo Rosetsu kan
This art museum prides itself as being Japan's smallest. Houses a fine collection of "India-ink" paintings by Ōkyo Maruyama and his disciple Rosetsu Nagasawa.
串本海中公園 Kushimoto Kaichū Kōen
See the local sea life through its underwater exhibit built underwater and through a glass bottomed boat ride.
橋杭岩
A legendary set of rock formations that stretch out sea for about 850 meters, and is pretty much ingrained into the town's identity to both locals and visitors.
日米修交記念館 Nichibei Shūkō Kinenkan
A museum commemorating the first actual arrival of an American ship in Japan—the USS Lady Washington in 1791—taking place decades before Commander Perry's more famed 19th-century landing. Also houses a small collection of memorabilia of the town's American Sister City (Hemet, California). Exhibits have English-language recordings and materials.
海金剛 Umikongō
Rock formations taking on strangely recognizable shapes, such as pyramids and lion masks. Declared in 1983 by Asahi Shimbun newspaper as one of Japan's 100 Most Important Natural Treasures for the 21st Century.