Nishihara
Worth seeing in and around Nishihara
9 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.
- 01Urasoe Art Museum
Urasoe Art Museum opened in 1990 in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The collection has a particular focus upon Ryukyu lacquerware.
2.4 km · museum in Urasoe, Okinawa, Japan · Wikipedia - 02Urasoe Castle
Urasoe Castle is a Ryūkyūan gusuku fortification which served as the capital of the medieval Okinawan principality of Chūzan prior to the unification of the island into the Ryūkyū Kingdom, and the moving of the capital to Shuri. In the 14th century, Urasoe was the largest castle on the island, but today only ruins remain.
1.4 km · building in Urasoe, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 03Ginowan City Museum
Ginowan City Museum opened in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan in 1999. The displays relate to the city's archaeology, history, and folklore.
1.8 km · museum in Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan · Wikipedia - 04Ryukyu University Museum (Fūjukan)
Ryukyu University Museum ) is a university museum affiliated with the University of the Ryukyus in Nishihara, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Of the collection of 160,000 items, which includes zoological type specimens and cultural artefacts such as the remains of the sundial from Shuri Castle and examples of warazan, some fifteen hundred are included in the permanent exhibition.
2.1 km · museum in Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan · Wikipedia - 05Sueyoshi-gū
Sueyoshi Shrine is a Shinto shrine in the Shuri-Sueyoshi neighborhood of the city of Naha in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Its grounds were designated a National Historic Site in 1972.
3.9 km · Shinto shrine in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 06Okinawa Prefecture Archaeological Center
The Okinawa Prefecture Archaeological Center opened in Nishihara, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan in 2000. The facility researches, preserves, and utilizes through display and other activities the prefecture's Buried Cultural Properties.
2 km · archaeology museum in Nishihara, Japan · Wikipedia - 07Mount Bengadake
Binnu Utaki was a sacred site for national rituals, including prayers for the king's health and the nation's peace in the Ryūkyū Kingdom. It is located in the city of Naha in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
3.9 km · religious site in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan · Wikipedia - 08Uchima Udun
Uchima Udun is a sacred site for veneration of the Ryūkyū kings, founded on the site of the residence of King Shō En, founder of the Second Shō Dynasty, located in the town of Nishihara, Okinawa Prefecture Japan. It was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2011.
3.8 km · sacred site for veneration of Ryūkyū kings · Wikipedia - 09Ginowan City Gymnasium
Ginowan City Gymnasium is an arena in Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan.
3.1 km · arena in Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan · Wikipedia
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Getting to Nishihara
- Airports
- Naha (OKA), 12 km
- Stations
- Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, 2 km · Urasoe-Maeda Station, 1.6 km
- Kagoshima → Nishihara651 km · quickest by air, 5h 43m · ¥32,350–47,240
- Miyazaki → Nishihara724 km · quickest by air, 6h 21m · ¥23,890–35,990
- Nagasaki → Nishihara751 km · quickest by air, 5h 20m · ¥30,080–44,800
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No local-transport research exists yet for Nishihara
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 Nishihara. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Nishihara
Nishihara is 8 km from Naha, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Urasoecity in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan2.3 km