Nakijin, Okinawa


Nakijin is a village located in Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
, the village has an estimated population of 9,529 and a population density of 239.00 persons per km2. The total area is 39.87 km2.

Geography

Nakijin Village occupies the northern half of Motobu Peninsula on Okinawa Island. It includes the island of Kouri that was linked to the island of Yagaji by a bridge in 2005. Yagaji was linked to Nakijin Village by the Urumi-Ōhashi Bridge in 2010.
The village is crossed by the Ōi-gawa River that runs northward to the East China Sea.

Administrative divisions

The village includes nineteen wards.
  • Amesoko
  • Gogayama
  • Heshiki
  • Imadomari, merger of Nakijin and Oyadomari
  • Jana
  • Kamiunten
  • Kaneshi
  • Koechi
  • Kouri
  • Nakaoji
  • Nakasone
  • Sakiyama
  • Serikyaku
  • Shoshi, merger of Shokita and Shijima
  • Tamashiro
  • Tokijin
  • Unten
  • Wakugawa
  • Yonamine

    Neighbouring municipalities

  • Motobu
  • Nago

    Education

The village operates its public elementary and junior high schools.
Okinawa Prefectural Board of Education operates.

Notable people

Nakijin Village hosts twenty-three designated or registered cultural properties and monuments, at the national, prefectural or municipal level.
  • Name

    Cultural Properties">Cultural Property (Japan)">Cultural Properties

  • Aoriyae Aji's magatama / Aoriyae Noro's magatama
  • Aragusuku Tokujo and Aragusuku Tokukō's warrants of appointment and related documents
  • Ichigusuku Tomb
Inscription with the history of the Wardens of Nakijin Castle, Sanhoku