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沖縄県 · Shrines & temples

Fubo Utaki

南城市本島南部

One of the seven great utaki of Ryukyu. To this day no one at all may enter.

沖縄県 · Shrines & temples

Izena Tamaudun

伊是名村離島

The tomb of the ancestors of the second Sho dynasty, built against the rock.

沖縄県 · Shrines & temples

Yuinchi

南城市本島南部

A place of worship whose name means filled to overflowing with abundance.

沖縄県 · Shrines & temples

Hinukan

久米島町離島

Okinawan houses keep a place in the kitchen for the god of fire. This preserves an old form of it.

沖縄県 · Shrines & temples

Tamagusuku

南城市本島南部

The gateway is cut in the shape of a heart, and the sun of the summer solstice comes straight through it.

沖縄県 · Shrines & temples

Karaukaa

今帰仁村本島北部

A place of worship surviving inside the castle. A castle was also a place of prayer.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Gyokusendo

南城市本島南部

A limestone cave five kilometres long. It shows how an island of Ryukyu limestone came to be.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Heiwa no Ishiji

糸満市本島南部

It carves the name of every person who died in the Battle of Okinawa, regardless of nationality, soldier or civilian.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Bise Fukugi

本部町本島北部

Trees planted as a windbreak became the hedge that shelters the village.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Himeyuri no To

糸満市本島南部

It carries the memory of the Battle of Okinawa.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Iriomotejima

竹富町八重山

Ninety percent of the island is primeval forest. The Iriomote cat is a Special Natural Monument.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Katsuren-jo

うるま市本島中部

A Roman coin was excavated here, showing how far trade by sea reached.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Kumejima

久米島町離島

The island of Kumejima pongee. Each village keeps its utaki.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Nakagusuku-jo

北中城村本島中部

Its curving stone walls are beautiful. Perry is said to have surveyed them and been astonished at their accuracy.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Nakijin-jo

今帰仁村本島北部

The seat of the king of Hokuzan. A wall 1.5 kilometres long runs along the ridge.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Shikinaen

那覇市本島南部

A villa of the Ryukyu royal house. It was the garden in which Chinese envoys were received.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Shurijo Seiden

那覇市本島南部

It burned in 2019 and is being rebuilt. The stone walls of the castle site remain World Heritage.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Taketomijima

竹富町八重山

Red tiles and shisa, and streets of white sand. The island's code, utsugumi, has kept the townscape.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Tamaudun

那覇市本島南部

The mausoleum of the kings of Ryukyu, and a National Treasure. A stone structure imitating a plank roof, it carries a form of tomb peculiar to Okinawa…

沖縄県 · Tourism

Zakimi-jo

読谷村本島中部

The oldest arched gateway in Okinawa survives here.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Shuri-jo

那覇市本島南部

The royal castle of the Ryukyu Kingdom. It burned in 2019 and is being rebuilt; the stone walls of the site remain.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Churaumi Aquarium

本部町本島北部

Whale sharks and reef manta rays in the great Kuroshio tank.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Kokusai Street

那覇市本島南部

One point six kilometres. Its recovery from the burnt ground of the war was called the miracle mile.

沖縄県 · Tourism

Iriomote

竹富町八重山

Ninety percent of the island is primeval forest. The Iriomote cat is a Special Natural Monument.