Ogimi Village

An office with octagonal forms to ease typhoon winds.

Former Ogimi Village Office

Photo by 運動会プロテインパワー (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Kijoka Bashofu

Boatbuilders left for Naha,and bashofu became the women's work.

Kijoka originally had many boatbuilders, who went on to Naha as skilled carpenters. Bashofu, a cloth of banana fiber, was taken up again as the work of the women left in the village, and after the war Toshiko Taira worked to revive it. It became a national Important Intangible Cultural Property in 1974, and Taira a Living National Treasure in 2000.

Many boatbuilders in Kijoka
1974: national Important Intangible Cultural Property
2000: Toshiko Taira, Living National Treasure

02 ／ Ungami of Shioya Bay

When the dragon boats reach the far shore,the crews leap into the sea with their paddles.

This harvest-prayer festival is held on the first boar day after the old-calendar Bon, and four local districts are its protectors. When the dragon boats reach the far shore, the crews jump into the sea with their paddles, strike them together to celebrate victory, and the festival reaches its peak.

First boar day after the old-calendar Bon
Protected by four districts
1997: national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property

03 ／ Ogimi Boar Walls

A stone wall rings the whole village,about 31 km long.

Built along the boundary between the mountain forest and the fields, it kept wild boars out of the farmland, and is also called the Great Wall of Ten Ri. The Kyuyo chronicle records a large-scale repair by the villagers of each settlement in 1776-1782. The village records that anyone who left a broken section unrepaired was ordered to pay two sho of rice as a fine.

About 31 km long
1776-1782: repair (Kyuyo chronicle)
Village-designated historic site (about 1.3 km designated)

Living here

Begun with 13 villages, now 17 districts.

about 3,000 people
Rural district town

The village says its history begins in 1673, when an administrative district was created from 13 villages. Today it is made up of 17 districts. There is no railway station, and the gateway is the Ogimi Village Office. The village's guide gives about 45 minutes by Route 67 bus from Nago Bus Terminal (updated 2023).

People living here: 3,092people
Area: 63.63km²
Households: 1,308households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 4 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —2 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.

Ogimi Village in Japan26.702°N 128.120°E

Territory of Ogimi Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

11.4km

東村, 国頭村, 名護市

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

Ogimi Village isthis kind of town.

01The Former Ogimi Village Office, a national Important Cultural Property (building) completed in 1925, took the octagonal plan, the village says, to reduce typhoon wind pressure, in a design that considers Okinawa's climate
02Bunagaya is a child-sized creature with red hair hanging down, and in 1998, as a project marking the 90th anniversary of the village system, the village declared itself the Village of Bunagaya, Ogimi
03The northern Okinawa Island component of the World Natural Heritage site Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island lies in the villages of Kunigami, Ogimi and Higashi

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Ogimi Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗