Chatan Town

Itoigawa jade came out of a Jomon site.

Ireibaru Site, jade beads

Photo by Bérangère444 (CC BY 4.0)

01 ／ Indian Oak

The 67 crew of a wrecked British shipwere rescued by people of Chatan.

In 1840 the East India Company ship Indian Oak ran onto the reef off Chatan district. Its crew numbered 67. Villagers carried tools up from the broken ship, provided food such as rice, chickens, cattle and pigs along with clothing, and built huts for them to sleep in, the town's materials record.

67 crew
1840
Finds: 3 copper plates, 1,000 copper nails and more

02 ／ Chatan Uchinaa-ya

A two-bay limestone fuurukeeps its typical form well.

Chatan Uchinaa-ya is a facility where an old Okinawan farmhouse (the former Medoruma house) and a fuuru (latrine; the former Sakihara house's) were moved and restored. By the Agency for Cultural Affairs' description, the fuuru is a stone building 4 m wide and 4.6 m deep, with arched roofs over two rooms in the north half and a stone-paved, stone-walled pen in front.

4 m wide, 4.6 m deep
Two-bay limestone structure
2012: nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property

03 ／ Hanzanbaru B Site

Fragments that look like Tohoku potterywere mixed into Gusuku-period farm soil.

The Hanzanbaru B Site is a multi-period site running from the late Shellmound period into the early modern and modern eras. Among pottery from the farm soil is a sherd with a characteristic pattern, confirmed as probably Ohora-type pottery of the late Jomon period in eastern Japan.

Features of Ohora A type, late-late Jomon
Town page headline: "2,500 years ago"
Faint traces of red remain

Living here

No railway station; reach the town office by bus.

about 30,000 people
Rural district town

Chatan is a town in Nakagami District with no railway station within its limits. The page of the archives inside the town office gives the nearest bus stop as Chatan Town Office (route 43, a 1-minute walk).

People living here: 28,201people
Area: 13.91km²
Households: 11,697households
Rent (average for rentals): 66,429yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 14 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —8 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Chatan Town in Japan26.320°N 127.764°E

Territory of Chatan Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

5.9km

沖縄市, 嘉手納町, 北中城村, 宜野湾市

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Chatan Town isthis kind of town.

01The Ireibaru Site, a Jomon settlement site designated a national historic site in 2010 as the town's first, has Itoigawa (Niigata) jade beads among its late-period finds, and in the early period a feature where a bamboo basket was laid in the channel of the Uuchinukaa spring to store Okinawan oak acorns was also confirmed
02Records in the town's materials say that people of Chatan rescued the 67 crew of the British ship Indian Oak, which ran onto the reef off Chatan district in 1840
03At Chatan Uchinaa-ya, the main house of the former Medoruma home and the fuuru of the former Sakihara home became nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Properties in 2012, and at the Hanzanbaru B Site a sherd probably of eastern Japan's late Jomon Ohora-type pottery has been confirmed

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Chatan Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗