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Kanegusuku

Haebaru is a town located in Shimajiri District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

Kanegusuku
Kanegusuku · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Haebaru is a town located in Shimajiri District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kanegusuku

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Shuri Castle

    Shuri Castle is a Ryukyuan gusuku castle in the historic Shuri district of Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Between 1429 and 1879, it was the palace of the Ryukyu Kingdom, before becoming largely neglected.

    3 km · Ryukyuan gusuku castle · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu

    The Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which consists of nine sites all located in the Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The heritage sites include two utaki, the Tamaudun mausoleum, one garden, and five gusuku castles sites, four of which are ruins and one of which is a reconstruction.

    4.9 km · building in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    gusuku

    In the Ryukyu Islands, gusuku are castles and fortresses that feature stone walls. The origin of gusuku remain controversial.

    5 km · castle or fortress in the Ryukyu Islands · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Lake Man

    Lake Man is an area of wetlands in Okinawa that is located between the cities of Naha and Tomigusuku, and within Manko Park. Despite being called "Lake Man", it is in fact a wetland and not a lake.

    4.5 km · lake in Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Tamaudun

    Tamaudun is one of the three royal mausoleums of the Second Shō Dynasty of kings of the Ryukyu Kingdom, along with Urasoe yōdore at Urasoe Castle and Izena Tamaudun near Izena Castle in Izena, Okinawa. The mausoleum is located in Shuri, Okinawa, and was built in 1501 by King Shō Shin, the third king, to bury his father, King Shō En a short distance from Shuri Castle.

    3.3 km · building in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum

    The Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, or Okimu for short, is a museum in the most southern prefecture of Japan. The museum complex in the Omoro-machi area of Naha, the capital city of Okinawa Prefecture.

    5.2 km · museum in Naha City · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Sonohyan-utaki

    Sonohyan-utaki is a sacred grove of trees and plants of the traditional indigenous Ryukyuan religion. It is located on the grounds of Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa, a few paces away from the Shureimon castle gate.

    3.2 km · Sacred grove at Shuri Castle, Okinawa · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Shikina-en

    The gardens of Shikina-en are located on a small hill to the south of Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa. The residence and its gardens are also known as Sichina-nu-udun or Nan'en, as opposed to the Tōen of Uchaya-udun, laid out on a small hill east of Shuri Castle in 1677.

    2 km · hilled gardens south of Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Naha City Museum of History

    Naha City Museum of History opened in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, in 2006. The collection includes the National Treasure Materials relating to the Shō Family of Ryūkyū Kings.

    5.5 km · museum in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Gokoku-ji Temple

    Gokoku-ji is a Shingon Buddhist temple in Naha, Okinawa.

    5.5 km · Buddhist temple in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Kanegusuku

Airports
Naha (OKA), 9 km
Stations
Omoromachi Station, 4.6 km · Furujima Station, 5.1 km · Asato Station, 4.3 km · Gibo Station, 3.8 km · Shuri Station, 3.1 km
  • Kagoshima → Kanegusuku
    657 km · quickest by air, 5h 33m · ¥30,780–45,040
  • Miyazaki → Kanegusuku
    730 km · quickest by air, 6h 11m · ¥22,320–33,790
  • Nagasaki → Kanegusuku
    758 km · quickest by air, 5h 10m · ¥28,510–42,600
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kanegusuku

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kanegusuku. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFerry services to Okinawa have been cut drastically, with Arimura Sangyo filing for bankruptcy and RKK Line stopping passenger services entirely.
  • Get inAs of 2014, the only survivors are A-Line Ferry, aka Maru-A (マルエー), which runs twice a week from Kagoshima (25 hours, ¥16,000 2nd class one-way) and once a week from both Osaka/Kobe and Tokyo (44 hours, ¥28,000) to Naha, and Marix Line, which runs between Kagoshima and Naha only.
  • Get inAll ferries call at various minor islands including Yoron and Amami Oshima along the way.
  • Go nextSouthern Okinawa - Many WW2 historical sites Central Okinawa - US military bases, pottery villages, castle ruins Northern Okinawa - The wildest and remotest part of Okinawa Island Kerama Islands - Regular ferry connections are available between Naha harbor and this nearby group of islands.
  • Go nextGreat for a day trip or a few days to experience a more isolated tropical experience.

From Wikivoyage: Naha, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    43 km
  2. 02
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    420 km
  3. 03
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    775 km
  4. 04
    Orchid Island (Lanyu)TW

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    778 km
  5. 05
    Kinmen (Quemoy)TW

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    960 km

If you know how people move in Kanegusuku – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kanegusuku

Kanegusuku is 6 km from Naha, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Nahacapital city of Okinawa prefecture, Japan5.5 km
  • Tomigusukucity in Okinawa prefecture, Japan5 km
  • Nanjō-shicity in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan5.2 km
  • Yonabarutown in Shimajiri district, Okinawa prefecture, Japan2.8 km
  • Yaesetown in Shimajiri district, Okinawa prefecture, Japan3.8 km
  • Nishiharatown in Nakagami district, Okinawa prefecture, Japan4.6 km