Uruma City

Hauling water meant about 150 steps.

Inna Gā, Ikei Island

Photo by Kugel (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Agena Castle Ruins

Stone walls ring both the outside and inside,a rare ring-type gusuku in the prefecture.

It is also called Great River Gusuku, after another name of the Tengan River that runs north of the castle. The hilltop inner enclosure holds the main and second baileys, and the outer enclosure lays walls from mid-slope. It is said to have been built around the 14th century by an Agena lord, but the date of construction is unclear.

1972: national Historic Site
Walls on both outside and inside
Said built around the 14th century

02 ／ Bullfighting

A 1911 newspaper records over 20,000at a contest of the Agena and Kawasaki districts.

Two bulls lock horns, and the one that turns its back and flees loses. The 1911 Ryukyu Shimpo reported that over 20,000 spectators gathered at a district contest at the Agena bullring, and the city records seven bullfighting associations and six bullrings.

2018: city Intangible Folk Cultural Property
Over 20,000 spectators (1911 newspaper)
Seven associations and six bullrings

03 ／ Waitui

A farm road cut through a cliffis called Waitui, meaning "split and taken."

Its formal name is the Hidono farm road. A cliff leading to the fields of Henna district was cut through from 1932 to 1935 to open it. It is about 150 m long and up to 20 m high, and the marks of digging with hoes and stone-splitting bars are carved in its cross-section.

Cut 1932 to 1935
About 150 m long, up to 20 m high
1997: city designation

Living here

Four former cities and towns became one city in 2005.

about 130,000 people

Uruma has no railway, and its gateway is the bus stop at City Hall. The city's guide says bus routes 23, 112, 113 and 223 from Naha Bus Terminal stop at Uruma City Hall. The city's visitor pages are divided into four areas: Ishikawa, Gushikawa, the Yokatsu Peninsula and the outlying islands.

People living here: 125,303people
Area: 87.03km²
Households: 48,163households
Rent (average for rentals): 45,009yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 55 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —36 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.

Uruma City in Japan26.379°N 127.857°E

Territory of Uruma City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

23.1km

沖縄市, 恩納村, 金武町, 所属未定地

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

Uruma City isthis kind of town.

01Inna Gā is a city-designated spring below a cliff on the northwest of Ikei Island, said to have been found by a farmer who saw a soaked dog climb up from the cliff; fetching water meant going up and down a path of about 150 stone steps
02Katsuren Castle Ruins, a national Historic Site and one of the World Heritage Gusuku and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu, is described by the city as having reached its peak under the lord Amawari
03Uruma also has the Nakabaru site on Ikei Island, a national Historic Site, and Heshikiya Eisa, a city-designated dance carried on by a single youth association split into east and west

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Uruma City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗