 In 1921 the battery was the first place in Hyogo Prefecture to be designated as a historic site by the prefectural government.Also, the Wadamisaki Lighthouse was completed in 1871 under the guidance of the "father of Japanese lighthouses", Englishman Richard Henry Brunton, who was brought to Japan by the Shogunate under an 1867 agreement with the United Kingdom to build five western-style lighthouses around Osaka Bay.The original lighthouse, which was first illuminated in 1872, was a wooden octagonal structure.