Yaese Town

A garden stone began the bone discovery.

Minatogawa Site, Minatogawa Man

Photo by Saigen Jiro (CC0)

01 ／ Yagi House

The stone of the wall, hinpun screen and wellis Ryukyu limestone from local Minatogawa.

The Yagi House in Oton district was built from 1952 to about 1955, and five items, the main house, annex, well, hinpun screen and stone wall, were registered as national Tangible Cultural Properties in 2009. The wall runs 50 m in total and the hinpun is 1.6 m high; the Agency for Cultural Affairs notes that the look of awaishi stone shapes the grounds.

2009: national registered Tangible Cultural Properties (5 items)
Stone wall 50 m in total length
Hinpun screen 1.6 m high

02 ／ Tomori Stone Lion

A lion form set facing Mount Yaese to prevent fire,says the Kyuyo's 1689 entry.

It is a prefectural Tangible Folk Cultural Property. The town says villagers were told by a geomancer of Kume Village that Mount Yaese holds the nature of fire, and set up a lion form facing the mountain; it adds that this is said to be the start of village stone lions. 18 stone lions survive in 9 districts of the town.

Prefectural Tangible Folk Cultural Property
Kyuyo, 21st year of King Sho Tei (1689)
18 stone lions in 9 districts of the town

03 ／ Hananda

A natural bridge about 30 m long, formed byerosion and collapse, is used by residents daily.

It is a natural bridge over the Shirami River in Gushichan district, and became a national Registered Monument in 2021. The Agency for Cultural Affairs describes it as about 30 m long and 10 m wide, formed by erosion and collapse of Ryukyu limestone, about 8 m above the water, long loved as a scenic spot and used daily by residents.

About 30 m long, 10 m wide
About 8 m from the water to the bridge top
2021: Registered Monument

Living here

About 35 minutes by car from Naha Airport, in a town with no railway station.

about 30,000 people
Rural district town

Yaese has no railway station, and its gateway is Yaese Town Office. The tourism association says it takes 35 minutes by car or taxi from Naha Airport to the association in Gushichan district, and that this varies with road congestion.

People living here: 30,941people
Area: 26.96km²
Households: 10,680households
Rent (average for rentals): 53,045yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 14 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.

Yaese Town in Japan26.158°N 127.719°E

Territory of Yaese Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

9.1km

南城市, 南風原町, 豊見城市, 糸満市

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

Yaese Town isthis kind of town.

01The Minatogawa Site in Nagamou district is a town-designated historic site; in 1967 Oyama Seiho noticed animal fossils in awaishi stone carried into a garden, kept visiting a fissure in the Minatogawa quarry, and found Minatogawa Man in 1970
02Yaese was formed in 2006 by the merger of Kochinda Town and Gushikami Village, and takes its name from Mount Yaese in the south of the town
03The palanquin shared by Toume and Kogusuku districts is a prefectural Tangible Folk Cultural Property, the Gushichan fukugi trees along Route 331 are a town-designated Place of Scenic Beauty, and Kochinda district is known as the home of Jahana Noboru

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yaese Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗