Uki Uki TRUE? LIES! JOURNAL
Traveling OKINAWA Summer, 1996
Revive Naka-gusuku!! (1)
(April 24, 1997)


Naka-gusuku! Lonely castle abandoned (HAIKU by Ukiyoye Taroh)

At the end of the ancient castle wall, there is a structure with a restaurant and an observation platform (Above photo).
It's been abandoned under construction these years.
Its inside is terribly dilapidated and filled with traces of violence..

But I believe that it can be revived if a certain entertainment is given, because as I wrote above, to speak of a landscape, its location is quite nice.

At first, if there are Big Fireworks Display on the Pacific Ocean and East China Sea near Naka-gusuku, the structure and the ancient castle wall will be the best view point.

At second, if there are traditional or modern music and dance festivals with lots of bonfires on the castle wall at night, it's certain that tourists will come. From the foot of the mountain, lanes of bonfires will be a marvelous spectacle.

These two events will gather people to the structure.

Even if there's no fund to restore the structure, I have a good idea to use it efficiently. As a stage of 'ULTRA OBSTACLE RACE.'
The entrants go from the entrance to the observation platform, getting over a lot of obstacles such as computer games, SUMO wrestlers, mathematical problems, venomous snakes, and anything. Being left to utter dilapidation, the facility will give the entrants a heroic spirit as if they are fighting in a secret base of evil, and the race will reach a pitch of excitement quite naturally. Isn't it?


One More Good Information
As there were buses only in the morning and the evening,
I had to walk up more than an hour from the nearest bus stop last summer.
On the way, I visited The House of Nakamura, a traditional house of Okinawa that was a national important cultural asset. It was a very nice house. I recommend you to take a book and spend one day reading it there.
In a kiosk in front of the house, there was a tea service for free.


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