Is it legal to collect at Tomonoura: Joyato lantern and gangi stone wharf?

Gray area. Nationally protected historic harbor and preservation district: the stone works are untouchable, so this is strictly a look-only foreshore with at most sea glass off the gangi margins; buried relics reportable under the Cultural Properties Protection Law

What can you find at Tomonoura: Joyato lantern and gangi stone wharf?

sea glass and shell at step margins, intact Edo harbor engineering

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Tomonoura

Joyato lantern and gangi stone wharf

Tidal foreshore Inferred from historyGray area

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea glass

Also reported: intact Edo harbor engineering.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Edo tide-waiting port on the Seto Inland Sea; Japan's most complete set of Edo harbor works: 1859 Joyato lantern, gangi steps, wave breaks, dock office

harbor structures themselves are the documented survival; no published record of loose finds, and the town is a protected preservation district