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Tamagusuku Castle

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Tamagusuku Castle is a historic Okinawan castle ruin with unique rock-carved gates and sacred sites.

Tamagusuku Castle
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What it is

  • A castle ruin in Nanjo City, Okinawa Prefecture.
  • Designated a national historic site in 1987.
  • Estimated to be about 600 years old.
  • A sacred place for the Agari Umaai pilgrimage.

What to see

  • Castle walls of the main enclosure are almost intact.
  • Castle gate carved out of a single natural rock.
  • Amatsugi Utaki sacred site in the main enclosure.
  • Views from a naturally high plateau.

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.

Where it is

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