Shuri Kinjo Town Stone-paved Road

The Shuri Kinjo Town Stone-paved Road guide follows a climb up the same worn limestone blocks that officials and cart wheels once used on the route between Shuri Castle and the port at Naha, laid down around 1522 under King Sho Shin. It explains why the stones were cut with deliberate grooves and fitted in an irregular pattern called midare jiki, sturdy enough to survive five hundred years and the Battle of Okinawa that destroyed most of the rest of the road. Along the way you'll pass Kinjo Muraya's tatami rest stop, the worn basin of the Ufu Hija well, and a two-hundred-year-old akagi tree still shading the path.