Kin Town

A statue denied Naha Port stands in Kin.

Kyuzo Toyama, Yuhi no Mori

Photo by visitkintown (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Ukkaga Spring (Kin Okawa)

A spring with no clear water-drawing spotwas divided into bathing and washing places.

金武大川の水.JPG — Photo by ラングレー (CC BY-SA 3.0)

A shared spring in the middle of the village district. In the early Taisho era, water welled out of three cracks in the Ryukyu limestone, and the water-drawing area had no clear bounds. In 1924 it was divided into bathing places for men and women, a washing place for sweet potatoes and vegetables, and one for cattle and horses. The first water drawn on New Year's Day was also used in celebratory rites.

Over 1,000 tons of water a day
1924: divided by use
1992: town-designated historic site

02 ／ Kin Kannonji Temple

Kannonji, rebuilt in 1942, usesearly-modern temple building methods.

金武観音寺.JPG — Photo by ラングレー (CC BY-SA 3.0)

The main hall is hip-and-gable with a red-tile roof and Yanbaru bamboo under the tiles. The prefecture-designated bell is recorded as hung at Tenkaiji temple in Shuri in 1466; in 1713 it was in the Gokokuji hall of Naminoue Shrine in Naha, and since 1929 it has been at Kannonji. Its striking spot is chipped, so it cannot be rung.

Rebuilt in 1942
1984: town-designated
1985: bell designated by the prefecture

03 ／ Fenushima

From stick dances to the karate-style Jino,it ends with pairs turning to exit.

A folk performing art long staged in village plays in Ige. Dancers wear uchikake robes and red-haired wigs, move from stick dances with six-shaku and three-shaku staffs to the karate-style dance Jino, and exit with Saruge. A preservation society was formed in 1989, and it has been shown at the moon-viewing festival on the 15th of the eighth old-calendar month.

Longer staff about 1.8 m
1989: preservation society
1991: town-designated intangible folk property

Living here

About 45 minutes by car from Naha.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in the town. The town's official site gives about 45 minutes from Naha and about 20 minutes from Nago on the Okinawa Expressway. To the northwest, the Onna-dake mountains separate it from Onna Village; to the southeast it faces the Pacific Ocean.

People living here: 10,806people
Area: 37.93km²
Households: 4,657households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 7 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —6 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.

Kin Town in Japan26.456°N 127.926°E

Territory of Kin Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

7.8km

恩納村, 宜野座村, うるま市, 所属未定地

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

Kin Town isthis kind of town.

01Yuhi no Mori is a small wooded hill at the Kin Town Office, where a statue of Kyuzo Toyama, called the father of Okinawan overseas emigration, stands; it was erected in 1931, requisitioned in 1944 leaving only the pedestal, and rebuilt in 1961
02Kin Kannonji is said to have been founded by the priest Nisshu around 1521-1522; the Nisshu cave in its grounds is a limestone cave whose inner hall is closed to visitors, and the name of the Sa-ga spring is said to come from his remark that its water tasted like tea
03The Ige gajimaru is a banyan at the center of its village, said to be about 300 years old, and was certified as one of the Okinawa's Hundred Famous Trees in 2005

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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