Yonabaru Town

Rebuilt station; pillars from 1931 remain.

Yonabaru Station Site

Photo by Rsa (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Yonabaru Great Tug-of-War

The straw is bought from Yaka district in Kin.The rope is twisted by the town's 13 districts, by assignment.

The straw came from nearby villages before the war, and from the Yanbaru region afterward. Today 5,000 tsubo, about 5 tonnes, is bought from Yaka district in Kin Town. The 13 districts twist ropes by assignment and bundle them east and west into a great rope 50 ken (90 m) long, with branch ropes partway along.

Straw: 5,000 tsubo, 5 tonnes
Twisted by 13 districts, by assignment
Length 50 ken (90 m)

02 ／ Yanbarusen and Sunchaa

Yanbarusen shipping and horse carts joined up,and Yonabaru Village established itself as a hub.

In 1903, once land readjustment freed former royal land, people who had come from Shuri and Naha used it as a base to start shipping by maransen ships (yanbarusen). That year the Sashiki road linking Naha opened, and horse-cart hauling began. The town website presents Yonabaru as a port town that prospered on yanbarusen and horse-cart drivers (sunchaa).

1903: shipping begins
Same year: horse-cart hauling begins
Sashiki road links Naha

03 ／ Untamamui

Cradled by Untamamui to the northwest and Rain-Prayer Hill to the southeast,the town spreads toward Nakagusuku Bay.

Untamamui rises 158 m and straddles the border with Nishihara Town. Okinawa Prefecture's landscape portal describes a pyramid-shaped mountain of Shimajiri Group silty mudstone and sandstone. Rain-Prayer Hill to the southeast is 133 m. Marine Town reclamation, begun in 1996, filled 0.82 km2 beyond the original shoreline.

Untamamui 158 m
Rain-Prayer Hill 133 m
Reclaimed 0.82 km2

Living here

A town on Okinawa Island's east coast, 9 km from Naha.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

Yonabaru covers 5.18 km2 and has no railway station. Its gateway is the Yonabaru Town Office Entrance bus stop. The town-run station museum's guide lists Toyo Bus routes 37 and 338 and Okinawa Bus routes 39 and 339, among others, from Naha Bus Terminal.

People living here: 19,695people
Area: 5.18km²
Households: 7,949households
Rent (average for rentals): 54,206yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 8 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —8 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.

Yonabaru Town in Japan26.200°N 127.755°E

Territory of Yonabaru Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

3.2km

南城市, 西原町, 南風原町

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

Yonabaru Town isthis kind of town.

01The Yonabaru Station Site of the Okinawa Prefectural Railway became a national registered monument in 2017, covering the pillars (nine, according to the Ryukyu Shimpo) of the station rebuilt in reinforced concrete in 1931 and rails dug up nearby; the station has been reconstructed and houses a town museum
02The ropes of the Yonabaru Great Tug-of-War are twisted by the town's 13 districts by assignment, with branch ropes partway along; the straw is bought from Yaka district in Kin Town, and the kanachi bar that joins the male and female ropes is normally kept in water to prevent cracking
03Yonabaru is presented by the town as a port town that prospered on yanbarusen and horse-cart drivers; Udunyama and Uegaa are pilgrimage sites on the Agari Umaai route, and Untamamui to the northwest, 158 m, straddles the border with Nishihara Town

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Yonabaru Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗