BokenJapanSights in Uruma, Okinawa
Uruma · Okinawa · 12 places
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CAVE OKINAWA
Central Okinawa's largest-class limestone cave with stalactites formed over tens of thousands of years.
Araka
Sacred well storing rock-spring water, said to have served for births and purifying the dead.
Carrot Observatory
Carrot-shaped observatory on high ground, with carrot-shaped benches and views of Okinawa's main island, villages, carrot fields, and Tumai Beach.
Notch
Coastal rocks with wave-eroded bases called notches show a once-higher sea; beachrock is visible.
Hotu Well
Seaside well named for a pigeon said to have found this spring during a long drought.
Maka
Small shrine with a stalactite deity like an embracing couple, revered for granting children.
Naka-no-Utaki
One of Tsuken Island's four utaki, at Tumai Beach, with ancestral god Kishabashi's grave.
Ikei Bridge
Opened March 1, 1982, this 198-meter bridge links Miyagi Island and Ikei Island in Uruma, contrasting red against blue sea.
Old Lighthouse Ruins
Only the brick base remains of Okinawa's first lighthouse, completed on Tsuken in 1896 and destroyed in the war.
Kafu Banta
On Miyagi Island's Nuchimasu salt factory grounds, a 70-meter cliff overlooks a clear, shallow white-sand sea.
Hamahiga Bridge
Opened February 7, 1997, this 900-meter bridge links Henza and Hamahiga islands in Uruma, with fine views from the span.
Kaichu Road
4.75 km embankment road from Yokatsu Peninsula to Henza Island, longest in the Orient, with a central beach.