Tomigusuku City

Stones go in its upper or lower hole.

Kodakara Iwa, Senaga Island

Photo by Kugel (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Tuduruchi-ga

A park built on the spring recorded as Taira-ihas a waterfall at its lowest end.

A spring inside Seseragi Park, beside the old road linking Shimajiri and Naha, it was also used by travelers. The Ryukyu-koku Kyuki records it as Taira-i (Taira-todoroki). The park was laid out in 1995 around this water source, and the city says a waterfall with a notable drop lies at its lowest end.

Recorded in the Ryukyu-koku Kyuki (1731) as Taira-i
A valued water source for about 300 years
1995: laid out as Seseragi Park

02 ／ Remains of Madanbashi

A trial dig in 1995 confirmed the remainsof a stone bridge that lay buried.

The city says King Sho Shin built Madanbashi in 1522 at a key crossing between the royal government at Shuri and Shimajiri. A trial dig in 1995 confirmed the stone bridge's remains, and a survey the next year excavated the paving and the arch. The remains were moved and restored beside Prefectural Route 11 in Madanbashi district.

1995: remains of a stone bridge confirmed by a trial dig
2006: city-designated cultural property (structure)
Moved and restored beside Prefectural Route 11

03 ／ Bin's Machi-bo

Only in rabbit and rooster years, every six years,a staff performance said to depict a flock of hawks.

Every year on the 15th and 16th of the 8th old-calendar month, a Juguya harvest festival is held on Bin's old horse track. The Machi-bo, performed only in rabbit and rooster years, every six years, is a group staff performance by Bin's men in a form called Takamachi. It is said locally to have begun over 200 years ago.

15th-16th of the 8th old-calendar month: Juguya harvest festival
Machi-bo in rabbit and rooster years, every six years
Said to have begun over 200 years ago

Living here

No station; the gateway is the City Office bus stop.

about 60,000 people

Tomigusuku is a city on the west coast of southern Okinawa Island, with no railway station in the city. The city's guide lists the circular city bus (Route 105), run by Ryukyu Bus Kotsu, which partly passes Onoyama Park Station on the monorail in Naha. One of its stops is Tomigusuku City Office.

People living here: 64,612people
Area: 19.33km²
Households: 24,580households
Rent (average for rentals): 51,548yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 42 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —14 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.

Tomigusuku City in Japan26.177°N 127.681°E

Territory of Tomigusuku City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

6.3km

那覇市, 糸満市, 八重瀬町, 南風原町

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

Tomigusuku City isthis kind of town.

01Kodakara Iwa on Senaga Island, a restored rock that locals call Ishi-iri, has two holes in its upper part; the city says people throw a stone into the upper hole to wish for a boy and into the lower to wish for a girl
02Of Chiya, a small island off the southwest shore of Lake Man, the city's sign says that according to the Kyuyo, the lord of Tomigusuku Castle floating a dragon boat on the lake is said to be the origin of Hari (dragon boat racing)
03Through the tie of John Manjiro, who was held at the Takayasu house in Onaga, Tomigusuku signed a sister-city pact with Tosashimizu, his home city

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Tomigusuku City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗