Nanjo City

One of Japan's 100 fine waters pours from stone.

Kakinohana Hija Spring

Photo by ブルーノ・プラス (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Tamagusuku Castle Ruins

On a hill overlooking Kudaka Island,a main, second and third enclosure.

Tamagusuku Castle Ruins stand on a hill that looks out over Kudaka Island and the central and southern parts of Okinawa Island, and were designated a national Historic Site in 1987. The castle consisted of a main enclosure, a second enclosure and a third enclosure. The city's tourism portal says a limestone gate stands at the top of a steep stairway.

1987: national Historic Site
Main, second and third enclosures
A hill overlooking Kudaka Island

02 ／ Chichinga Well

Stone steps, 43 of them, are laid downto the spring of a well outside the castle wall.

Chichinga is a well built outside the wall of Shimashi Ozato Castle in Ozato, said to have been used as the shared well of nearby hamlets. The spring is about 8 m below ground level, and 43 stone steps are laid down to it. It is estimated to have been built around the 14th century.

1990: designated by the city (structure)
43 stone steps to the spring
Estimated built around the 14th century (city)

03 ／ Funjiru Furnace, Hyakuna

A furnace for burning paper that has been written onstands in Hyakuna.

A funjiru is a furnace for burning paper that is no longer needed after being written on, a custom from China that valued written characters. The one in Hyakuna is built of four flat limestone slabs, with a rectangular opening in front for the paper and a round opening at the back for smoke.

1994: designated by the city (structure)
Built of four flat limestone slabs
Paper opening in front, round smoke opening at back

Living here

About 40 minutes by car from Naha Airport, a city without a station.

about 40,000 people

Nanjo has no railway station, and its gateway is the city hall. The city's tourism portal gives about 40 minutes by car from Naha Airport (varying with destination and time of day), and lists route buses of Okinawa Bus and Toyo Bus, plus the N Bus that runs within the city.

People living here: 44,043people
Area: 49.94km²
Households: 15,895households
Rent (average for rentals): 48,462yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 16 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —17 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.

Nanjo City in Japan26.163°N 127.771°E

Territory of Nanjo City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

8.3km

八重瀬町, 南風原町, 与那原町

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

Nanjo City isthis kind of town.

01Kakinohana Spring was selected as one of Japan's 100 famous waters by the Ministry of the Environment; the water from the right is called the male stream, from the left the female stream, a shallow pool downstream is the horse-bathing stream, and a stone-paved path leads to the hamlet
02Tamagusuku Castle Ruins, a hilltop site designated a national historic site in 1987, has a limestone gate at the top of a steep stairway according to the city's tourism portal, and at Chichinga, outside the wall of Shimashi Ozato Castle, 43 stone steps lead to the spring
03The funjiru in Hyakuna is a furnace for burning paper that has been written on, and like Chichinga it is a structure designated by the city; the city also has sacred places, including Kudaka Island, which the city introduces as the island of the gods, and the World Heritage Sefa Utaki

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

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