You cross the waterfall from behind, and the ticket costs two hundred yen.
It is a Chinese garden in the middle of Naha, behind a white wall that gives no hint of anything from the street. Inside there are a carp pond, pavilions on several levels, little bridges carved with the signs of the zodiac, and a waterfall with a walkway passing under it: you barely get wet. Half an hour is enough, and everyone who goes says so straight away: it is small.
Opened in 1992 by the municipality of Naha for the tenth anniversary of its twinning with Fuzhou, in China, and for the city's seventieth anniversary. It is built in the style of Fuzhou gardens, with materials and craftsmen brought from there, in the Kume neighbourhood, which was the Chinese neighbourhood of the Ryūkyūs.
ℹ️ Two hundred yen. It is five or six minutes on foot from the Kenchō-mae stop on the monorail; parking is in the car park of the neighbouring Matsuyama Park, with the first hour free. You can walk round it in half an hour, or an hour if you sit down.
🚉 The Okinawa Times · 7 min walk
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