Nakagusuku Village

Stonework differs by enclosure.

Nakagusuku Castle, historic site

Photo by 663highland (CC BY 2.5)

01 ／ Iju Tafaku Dance

A Chinese-style dance of leaps and twists,carried on only in Iju, the village says.

Iju's Tafaku is a Chinese-style dance. Performers in bright costumes form a solemn procession and dance with many leaps and twists. Eleven dancers perform with three singers. The village says it is danced on the 15th day of the 8th month of the old calendar, and the preservation society also performs at events on request.

1985: prefectural Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property
11 dancers and 3 singers
Danced on the 15th of the 8th old-calendar month (village)

02 ／ Hanta Road, Arakaki

An old cliffside road survives for about 330 m in Arakaki,with two periods of paving found.

Hanta means a road along a cliff, and this one linked Shuri, Nakagusuku Castle and Katsuren Castle. In Arakaki about 330 m survives, and paving from around the 15th century and from the early modern period has been found. Along it, Banner Rock (Taachiishii) is a village-designated historic site where the Perry expedition is said to have raised a flag in 1853.

2015: national Historic Site, Nakagusuku Hanta Road
About 330 m survives in Arakaki
Paving from the 15th century and the early modern period

03 ／ Tomari's Great Kwadiisaa

A great tree said to have been plantedby an official sorry to leave.

Tomari's great kwadiisaa (Terminalia catappa) is a village-designated Natural Monument. About 200 years ago, an official sent from the Shuri court to the Nakagusuku district office is said to have planted it, sorry to part from the people of Tomari he had befriended, when his term ended. A well called Shichanuka is nearby.

Village Natural Monument
Said to be planted about 200 years ago
Shichanuka well nearby

Living here

About 45 minutes by car from Naha Airport, a village without a station.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

Nakagusuku has no railway station, and its gateway is the village office. The village says it is about 45 minutes by car from Naha Airport up Route 329, or about 30 minutes by expressway, leaving at Nishihara or Kitanakagusuku. For buses, it gives about 10 minutes from the airport to Naha Bus Terminal, then about 50 minutes by Toyo Bus.

People living here: 22,157people
Area: 15.53km²
Households: 8,851households
Rent (average for rentals): 54,647yen
Healthcare: 2 hospitals ／ 10 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 3 municipalities.

Nakagusuku Village in Japan26.262°N 127.790°E

Territory of Nakagusuku Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

6.4km

宜野湾市, 西原町, 北中城村

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

Nakagusuku Village isthis kind of town.

01Nakagusuku Castle, a national historic site spanning Nakagusuku and Kitanakagusuku, has stonework that differs by enclosure; the walls of the third enclosure, said to be added by Gosamaru, are built of five-sided stones
02Iju's Tafaku is a dance with Chinese-style costumes and many leaps and twists; the village says only Iju carries it on, and the prefecture designated it an Intangible Folk Cultural Property in 1985
03Banner Rock, a village-designated historic site where the Perry expedition is said to have raised a flag in 1853, lies along the national historic site Nakagusuku Hanta Road, and Tomari's great kwadiisaa is a village-designated Natural Monument

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Nakagusuku Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗