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OkinawaShrines & TemplesThe centre of belief in Okinawa is neither shrine nor temple but the utaki: a place with no building, where a forest or a rock itself is worshipped. The same form survives on the mainland at Omiwa Jinja and Munakata Taisha, but in Okinawa it has continued as the mainstream. Through the triangular gap where two great rocks lean together, Kudakajima can be seen.
OkinawaShrines & TemplesThe island where the gods who created Ryukyu are said to have come down. It lies in view from Sefa Utaki, and the whole island is held to be sacred.
OkinawaShrines & TemplesA spring carrying the tradition of the beginning of rice growing. A sacred place recorded in the Ryukyu-koku Yuraiki.
One of the seven great utaki of Ryukyu. To this day no one at all may enter.
OkinawaShrines & TemplesThe gateway is cut in the shape of a heart, and the sun of the summer solstice comes straight through it.
OkinawaNature & SceneryA limestone cave five kilometres long. It shows how an island of Ryukyu limestone came to be.
OkinawaArchitectureNo buildings: a grove or a rock is the sacred place, marked by nothing but a stone incense holder - hundreds of them across the islands.