About this site

Four of the seven Ryukyu utaki are in Nanjo, Okinawa. This site explains what each one is, how it is prayed to, and how to visit, and it shows its sources.

Who runs this site

Operated by Okinawa Marsha.

Contact

Please write to [email protected] if you find a mistake, something unclear, or something missing. Tell us which page and what you saw.

This is not an official site

This is not the official website of Nanjo City. We introduce the city's materials with their sources. Please confirm opening hours, fees and whether entry is allowed with each facility.

How we write

• We show our sources. The main ones are Utaki of Nanjo City (Nanjo City Board of Education, 2018) and Nanjo Digital Archive.
• What we have not confirmed is marked as unconfirmed. We do not fill gaps with guesses.
• Utaki are places of prayer. We write how to pray before how to get there. We do not publish photographs of the innermost places, and we do not use labels that treat utaki as places that give special energy (Nanjo City asks for this in how cultural properties are presented).
• All images are AI-generated illustrations, not records of real scenes. We will replace them with photographs taken on site.
• We correct mistakes and update the date shown at the bottom of each page.

Data we use

Bus timetable and positions: OTTOP, a non-profit organization (CC BY 4.0). Maps: tiles from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan.

Privacy

We use Google Analytics 4 to count which pages are read and where people tap, and Cloudflare to deliver the site. We do not intentionally send names or email addresses, and we do not show ads. Details (in Japanese): Privacy.