""Great Stones"city is Okinawa" a Okinawa Travel Page by moacha

The vestige of the old castle in Okinawa called Gusuku.
Other Gusukus which is not selected for world heritage exist in woods. According to the Ryukyu eatablishing tradition of Japan, it is said that AMAMIKIYO got down hear from heavens and lived in it.

One of the world heritages in Okinawa registered in 2000
Although AMAMIKIYO who is bilived ancester of the beginning of Ryukyu created UTAKI in various parts of Ryukyu,
appearing at the beginning of that myth worshipped at the king himself as the holy place No.1 by this UTAKI in Ryukyu Kingdom.

There is a group of the strangely shaped rocks and the megalith where the limestone of 200 million years ago was made by being eroded with rain water etc. at in the north of Okinawa Prefecture.
It is a huge rock by which it is the tropical Karst topography at the northernmost tip in the world here, and the rock of a photograph is called GOKUU rock and which rises up, so that it looks up.
It seems that it is a model of Utopia TENJIKU. If it stands before these huge rocks, very small oneself is noticed, and while feeling the grandeur of the earth, the feeling that he must not forget the heart [ people ] of consideration will spring. It may be gods' huge sculpture group here.