Kitanakagusuku Village

A farmstead stone-walled on three sides.

Nakamura House

Photo by 663highland (CC BY 2.5)

01 ／ Ogido Shell Midden

A shell midden contemporary with the mainland's late Jomon.Its finds were a standard reference for Southern Islands prehistory.

It lies at the foot of a cliff on a hill about 140 m high, north of Ogido hamlet, and its shell layer reaches 1.2 m at the thickest. In 1919 Tokyo Imperial University excavated it, and the pottery found was classed as the Ogido type.

1972: national Historic Site
Shell layer up to 1.2 m thick
1919: excavated by Tokyo Imperial University

02 ／ Kishaba Gan-ya

The roof of the building that kept the bieris an arch of two stones joined together.

A gan is a vermilion-lacquered bier that carried a coffin to the grave, and in Kishaba it was used for some time after the war. Its house stands at the western edge of the hamlet, facing north, built of limestone: 3.4 m wide, 1.9 m high, 4.4 m deep.

Roof: two stones joined as an arch
3.4 m wide, 1.9 m high, 4.4 m deep
1995: village-designated folk cultural property

03 ／ Shirube Dote-ishi

A stone carved "Kishiyahakoshi hara"was a survey marker of the Genbun land survey.

These are stones the Ryukyu court used as survey marks and boundary markers in the Genbun land survey (1737-50). The two on the grounds of the Yagibaru community hall are carved "Kishiyahakoshi hara"; the tourism association sees them as proof that Yagibaru was once part of Kishaba. One stone at Toguchi is a village historic site.

Genbun land survey, 1737-1750
Two stones at the Yagibaru community hall
Toguchi stone: 1997 village historic site

Living here

A village with no railway station, facing Nakagusuku Bay to the east.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

Kitanakagusuku lies in central Okinawa Island, with its east side facing Nakagusuku Bay. There is no railway station in the village, and its gateway is the Kitanakagusuku Village Office. Nakagusuku Castle Site, a World Heritage property, spans Nakagusuku and Kitanakagusuku.

People living here: 17,969people
Area: 11.54km²
Households: 6,558households
Rent (average for rentals): 63,166yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 7 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —5 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.

Kitanakagusuku Village in Japan26.301°N 127.793°E

Territory of Kitanakagusuku Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

4.6km

沖縄市, 北谷町, 中城村, 宜野湾市

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

Kitanakagusuku Village isthis kind of town.

01Nakamura House, a national Important Cultural Property, is a farmhouse compound walled in limestone on its east, south and west sides and planted inside with fukugi trees as a windbreak; it has a main house, annex, livestock shed, stone pigsty-toilet and granary; the standing buildings are said to date from the mid-18th century
02Ogido Shell Midden, a national historic site at the foot of a cliff north of Ogido hamlet, gave pottery classed as the Ogido type, contemporary with the mainland's late Jomon period
03Kishaba's Gan-ya has a roof arch of two stones and is a village-designated folk cultural property; at Yagibaru and Toguchi stand shirube dote-ishi, survey stones of the Genbun land survey

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Kitanakagusuku Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗