The banyan-hinpun of Nago 名護のひんぷんガジュマル
It acts as the hinpun for the whole town: the wall that screens the entrance and turns spirits away.
A monumental banyan in the centre of Nago, a national Natural Monument since 2 September 1997 and a prefectural one since 19 October 1956. The 文化庁 gives it a height of nineteen metres, a circumference of 10.1 metres at breast height, a crown of twenty-seven metres and an estimated age of two hundred and forty years.
Okinawa
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