Nakijin Village

Fukugi rows shield homes from the wind.

Imadomari Fukugi Woods, Hogo

Photo by Indiana jo (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Nakahara Horse Field

A horse field of about 250 mis covered by Ryukyu pines.

The prefecture's cultural-property guide calls it the best-preserved horse field in the prefecture. It is about 30 m wide and about 250 m long, with raised earthen seating along its sides, and a row of Ryukyu pines shades it from the sun. Before the war each village had two or three such fields, which disappeared through conversion to farmland or housing, among other causes.

About 30 m wide, 250 m long
Seating banks about 1 m high, 5-10 m wide
Prefectural historic site

02 ／ Shimachisujinori

Called a "strange alga",it was peeled off when the well was cleaned.

The spring-fed well Amisuga in Amesoko is a growth site of Shimachisujinori, a freshwater red alga, and a prefectural Natural Monument. When a village school teacher found it in 1931, locals called it a "strange alga" and peeled it off when the well was cleaned. The prefecture notes that the spring's flow has decreased, making observation difficult.

Found in 1931 by a local school teacher
A freshwater red alga
Prefectural Natural Monument

03 ／ Wakugawa Rojigaku

Music that heralded the king's processionis performed at Wakugawa's village dance.

Rojigaku is processional music that came from China and uses wind instruments called gaku, among others; it was played as the herald of the Ryukyuan king's procession. In Wakugawa it is one of the main pieces of the village dance in the eighth month of the old calendar, with three tunes.

Main piece of the old-calendar eighth-month village dance
Three tunes
2002: prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property

Living here

About 160 minutes from Naha Airport by highway bus.

about 9,000 people
Rural district town

Nakijin has no railway station. In the timetable of Yanbaru Express Bus (airport line, outbound), the bus leaving Naha Airport at 10:10 reaches the Nakijin Village Office stop at 12:50. The timetable notes that times are approximate. The village consists of 19 districts.

People living here: 8,894people
Area: 39.94km²
Households: 3,541households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 2 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —4 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.

ACCESS

Where you can go from here.

Nakijin Village in Japan26.683°N 127.973°E

to NahaHighway bus160min

Travel times follow やんばる急行バス（今帰仁村仲宗根480に事業所がある事業者）公式の空港線時刻表PDF（下り・那覇空港→運天港。https://yanbaru-expressbus.com/wp-content/themes/ykb/download/time/time-d.pdf）。時刻表ページに『2025年11月1日から有効の時刻です』とある（同じページの上りの注記は『2026年3月10日～4月28日の時刻表』と古いまま。PDFの発行日は書かれていない）。運行情報は2026-10-06付の遅延の知らせまで更新されている (checked 2026-10-07). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 2 municipalities.

Territory of Nakijin Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

8.7km

本部町, 名護市

Nakijin Village isthis kind of town.

01The Imadomari fukugi woods and village landscape were selected as a national Important Cultural Landscape in 2019; three green belts, the hogo around each house lot, the village hogo to the east and west, and the shore hogo to the north, hold the settlement against the wind
02Imadomari lies at the foot of Nakijin Castle Ruins, a World Heritage site; because the two old hamlets did not merge their kami hasagi when they merged, the village has two, Hasagingwa and Fupuhasagi
03The prefecture has designated the Shimachisujinori of Amesoko as a Natural Monument, the Rojigaku of Wakugawa as an Intangible Folk Cultural Property, and Nakahara Horse Field as a historic site

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Nakijin Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗