Half swallowed by the jungle, on a ledge a hundred and twenty metres above the spring.
It is the most neglected of the three gusuku of Nanjō, and people who have been there say so as a compliment. The walls are of rough limestone, almost vertical, and the vegetation has grown over them. Two enclosures and a small place of worship remain, where excavations found potsherds and imported porcelain. From up there you can see the Kakinohana spring and the sea.
A gusuku on a ledge at about a hundred and twenty metres above sea level, in the municipality of Nanjō, above the Ukinju-Hainju and Kakinohana springs. The masonry dates it to more than six hundred years ago, to the beginning of the gusuku period; tradition attributes it to the second son of the lord of Minton, in the fourteenth century. It has been a prefectural historic site since 1961.
ℹ️ Outdoors, open at all times and free. ⚠️ There is no car park: you leave the car at the Kakinohana spring car park, about a hundred metres further down, and walk up. The ground is uneven stone.
🚉 Kaikinohana · 3 min walk
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