Abuchira Cave, Itokazu 糸数アブチラガマ
Two hundred and seventy metres of cave, and they served as a hospital for more than six hundred wounded.
A natural cave two hundred and seventy metres long in Itokazu, in the municipality of Nanjō. During the Battle of Okinawa it became a branch of the Haebaru military hospital and came to hold more than six hundred wounded soldiers; it was used as a hospital until 25 May 1945, when it was abandoned in the retreat south.
Okinawa
糸数, 糸数, Itokazu Entrance