Ginowan City

The mound that named a pottery style is also an utaki.

Oyama Shell Mound, Misukumui

01 ／ Kiyuna Spring

Ufuga is built wide for bathing;Kaaguwa has a spout for drawing water.

The village's shared well, made of two stone-built springs, Ufuga and Kaaguwa. Ufuga is wide because men back from the fields and livestock bathed there; Kaaguwa has a spout easy for women and children to draw from. The slope from the village is about 100 m and steep. Visits are by prior inquiry.

1992: national Important Cultural Property
Main walls from around the early 19th century
Slope of about 100 m from the village

02 ／ Mori no Kawa

A stele marking the finished stonework and gatestands behind the gate beyond the spring.

A spring in Morikawa Park, a prefectural Place of Scenic Beauty. In 1725 the Ie family of the Sho clan of Shuri developed the spring, which water had cut into a small valley, with stonework. The stele behind the gate is 120 cm high. A legend is also told of a heavenly maiden who bathed here, whose son became Satto, king of Chuzan.

1725: developed with stonework
Stele 120 cm high
Prefectural Place of Scenic Beauty

03 ／ Futenma Shrine Cave

The cave, about 280 m long, has two mouthsand three wide spaces, with traces of flowing water.

A cave beside the main hall; the city's tourism site gives its length as about 280 m, of which about 50 m is open. It has three large open spaces and cave notches that show where water once flowed. The cave and the area by its east mouth are an archaeological site, with finds from the later early Shell Mound period (about 3,000 years ago) onward.

About 280 m long; about 50 m open
Two mouths, three open spaces
1991: city Place of Scenic Beauty

Living here

No station; the gateway is the City Hall bus stop.

about 100,000 people

Ginowan is a city in central Okinawa Island, with no railway station. The city's guide lists a bus from Naha Airport and a bus connection from Furujima Station on the monorail; both end at the Ginowan City Hall stop.

People living here: 100,125people
Area: 19.8km²
Households: 44,163households
Rent (average for rentals): 52,815yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 50 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —25 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 5 municipalities.

Ginowan City in Japan26.282°N 127.778°E

Territory of Ginowan City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

5.3km

浦添市, 中城村, 北谷町, 西原町, 北中城村

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

Ginowan City isthis kind of town.

01Oyama Shell Mound is a national historic site that locals call Misukumui and treasure as an utaki, a sacred site; the pottery found in the 1958 dig was placed as Okinawa's standard pottery, known as Oyama-style
02Kiyuna is a planned village of early modern Ryukyu laid out like a grid, with seven carved stone shisa lions placed around it
03Ginowan lies on a thick layer of Ryukyu limestone that stores water like an underground dam, so springs and caves are scattered across the city

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Ginowan City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗