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Tokashiki Island 渡嘉敷島

Area 15.31 km² (5.9 mi²)Okinawa Prefecture
Tokashiki Island
Tokashiki Island (渡嘉敷島)Photo: Tomaž Vajngerl — Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
Island groupKerama Islands
PrefectureOkinawa
RegionOkinawa
MunicipalityTokashiki
Area15.31 km² (5.9 mi²)
Highest point227 m
Coordinates26.19778° N, 127.36444° E

Getting there: the article below outlines this island's usual ferry and flight routes. Timetables change with the season and sailings are cancelled in rough weather — always confirm the current schedule with the operator or the municipality before you travel.

Tokashiki Island (as it were) and Okinawan language: It's about 30 kilometers west of Manjito and is located on the eastern edge of the island on the largest island in the Trans-Cai Islands. It's one of the main islands that make up the islands of China, for example, where the post area of Tohoku Village is set up.

I'm on my way

The ferry will be replaced by a new ferry from March 2013, and the old ship "Frier" will be back. It's called the "Karama Road" port. Starting in April 2013 with a government communications ship in Chokichimura. It's an on-demand system which has two flights a day set, but only when you have a reservation. From the inter-agency airport, there once existed a regular passage, but it was abolished later. Since there is no regular passage to the pre-annual island, belonging to the village of Tohoku, and since there is no regular route to which several families are supposed to live, you need to take a tour or charter fishing boats and so on.

Incoming traffic

A tourist bus that appears to be traveling between the Abuta and the beach is taking the bus. 20 minutes time. They're going to be sent to meet the arrival of a regular ship at the port of Tohoku. We'll stop before the stage on the way.

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History

There have been human habitations since prehistoric times. There have been remains of shells, such as the oyster. In the middle of the 17th century, there were Zamami Island XZZ48X XZXX and XXXX, "Heather" (The Heatier). At the end of World War II and in the Okinawan war, they were subjected to violent attacks by the U.S. military because of the Tokashiki Island base at sea. On the 28th after the landing of the U.S. Army on March 27th, the Red Matsu Corps ordered them to assemble in an open space in Red Mountain, and the group began to decide. About half of the population were victims of 368 people. In 1962, the U.S. forces took over the Red Mountain to build a land-to-air Hawk missile base, and the mountains were greatly cut. The monument was transferred to the shrine. In 1972 the base was returned to the country's estate, and now it's the "house of the National Coastal Youth Communications."

Industrial

Of all industrial workers, the third industrial workers account for more than 80 percent, and the tourist industry has become the main industry, with the annual arrivals of over 100,000 people over 100 times the island's population. Although less than 5 percent of the fishing and farming workers are in the area, the area around them is a small fishing area with a single fishing net and fishing rope. Also, the islands may be rich in forest and water, as well as rice growing in favorable areas.

Tourists

Along with the surrounding islands, the area has become the National Park of the Confederate Islands, known as the coral reef, the breeding area of the whale, the white beaches, the sea-feeding cliffs and the peculiar terrain. The Tokashiki Island itself has two beautiful beaches called the Akru team and Kunihito, while the sea is one of the most transparent in the world, with a marlin sport that started diving, such as 50 to 60 meters. There is also a hoer watching in late December and March that targets the whale whale as it moves around the island.

Main resort and tourist attractions

It's a white beach half a mile down the Award beach, followed by a white sand beach. There's a Shibu island in front of you. Award beach was sixth in the Landing of Japan's Best Beach in the World of Traveschoise, published in 2016 by Trip Advisor. The beach is about half circled and half-circuited on white sand. There are few shelters, so there are fewer people than Akira beach. In 1988, Idle Group, in a television program program, was named "Sib Island" in honor of the recruitment's departure. Under the rock wall of the island, Shib was set up to resemble the three of them, but later they didn't have a model that was badly damaged. The damage is said to have been caused by a typhoon and that one of the fans took it. In the 2000s, Shizuzushi Shiragawa, who was a member of Japan's Shizura River, was remodeling in a different way, but by 2010, he's getting worse again. You can also see XXXQ209X in the west and XX127XZXZX20020X in the east. (heather) A stone wall in the base of the house, a stone wall made of limestone from the days of the Cypriot dynasty. You can take a glimpse of the height of the skill of the craftsman's craft with the prosperity of his house at the time of the construction. A village-specified cultural heritage. It's a white tower. War monument. It's called the "George Demography." He's exhibiting historical and civil relations material on the island. There are skeletons of the Okinawan war and of the Sassa whale. This is the home of a young man from Okinawa. Tomubumura Young's Travel Village. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. A"? The ruins of the river river.

Text adapted from the Japanese Wikipedia article 渡嘉敷島, whose full text was translated into English for this guide by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population, area and location facts from Wikidata (CC0); figures Wikidata does not carry are taken from the Japanese Wikipedia article's data table (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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