Bunkazai TabiA travel guide to Japan’s cultural heritage

Cultural heritage in Okinawa

National Treasure buildings and historic districts in Okinawa.

Taketomi Island, Taketomi: A red-tiled house with a coral stone wall

Historic districts

Taketomi Island, Taketomi

Taketomi, Okinawa

A village on a small Yaeyama island where red-tiled houses sit behind coral-stone walls called gukku along white sand lanes. Under the Taketomi Island Charter drawn up by the islanders, the lanes are swept every morning and the island's way of life and scenery are carefully protected.

Tamaudun

Muromachi · Other buildings · National Treasures

Tamaudun

Naha, Okinawa

Tamaudun is a historic structure in Naha, Okinawa. 5 of its buildings, including the Tamaudun, Tomb Chamber (East Chamber) and Tamaudun, Tomb Chamber (Central Chamber), are designated National Treasures (Late Muromachi period, 1501).

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Historic districts

Tonaki Island, Tonaki

Tonaki, Okinawa

Tonaki Island, Tonaki is an island farming village in Tonaki, Okinawa, selected in 2000 as an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings.

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