Haebaru Military Hospital Tunnel No. 20 沖縄陸軍病院南風原壕群20号
In 1990 it was the first war site in Japan to be designated a cultural property.
It is part of the complex of some thirty tunnels that the Okinawa military hospital dug in 1945 between the hamlets of Kyan and Kanegusuku, after the bombing of 10 October 1944 had destroyed its premises in Haebaru elementary school. Tunnel No. 20 began as an internal medicine ward and was reclassified as the second surgical ward as the number of wounded grew. It was here that the students of the Himeyuri Nursing Corps were attached as auxiliaries. Open to the public since June 2007.
Okinawa
Tōmabaru, 兼城十字路, 新川営業所
