 This was replaced with a 17m tall, three-story, steel hexagonal structure in 1884.The steel lighthouse was moved to the Suma Kaihin (Seaside) Park in Suma-ku in 1967 and in September 1998 it was registered as a national tangible cultural asset under the name .On 1 September 1931 the city of Kobe was the 6th city in Japan to adopt the system of dividing the city into wards.