Tamsui Lighthouse sits on the northern bank of Tamsui Port in Taipei County. The original lighthouse was funded and built by locals. The lighthouse was made of natural cobbles into 4-meter-tall tubular shape. The lighthouse was equipped with a lantern with the glass curtain wall, and oil lamps. The lighthouse keepers shone and extinguished lights after sunset and sunrise. The building date is unknown. However, the lighthouse was recorded in the British nautical chart in early times.

　　In 1888, the Customs of the Ching Dynasty built a 15.8-meter-tall iron tetragonal tower with the sixth-class kerosene fixed lighting lamp, which generated 100 candlepower light. The lighthouse was re-equipped with the electric lamp in 1926. In 1951, the lighthouse was re-equipped with the flash lamp, which flashed once every three seconds with 4,000 candlepower light.

　To meet practical needs, the Taiwan government move the lighthouse to the nearby site, and rebuilt a tetragonal iron-framed tower. The lighthouse was equipped with the fourth-class alternating current (AC) electric lamp as the main lamp, which flashed white light once every eight seconds with 28,000 candlepower. The new-type arc-light signal was set up below the main lamp to guide vessels to enter to channels of Tamsui Port.

　　Height of Lighthouse: 32.7 meters

　　Height of Light (above H.W.): 35.2 meters

　　Nominal range: 16.6 nautical miles