Nambuhara Cultural Center is a place where you can learn about the history of war.
The Nambuhara Cultural Center is a place where visitors can observe and learn about the history of war in Okinawa and Nambuhara Town. Visitors can learn about peace through numerous historical materials, dioramas, and a tour of an actual hospital bunker.
In the permanent exhibition, there are four themed sections, including an exhibition on war.
Other events such as special exhibitions and lectures are held on a regular basis.
Admission to the Nanbara Cultural Center is free for residents of the town of Nanbara. Admission for other areas is 300 yen for adults, 200 yen for junior and senior high school students, and 150 yen for elementary school students.
Access is approximately 30 minutes by car from Naha Airport.
By bus, take Ryukyu Bus #111 to “Kuniba”, then transfer to Toyo Bus #37 and get off at “Kenjo Jujiro”. It is a 16-minute walk to the destination.
Point 1: Nambuhara Cultural Center in Nambuhara Town, where you can visit a hospital bunker used in the war.
Behind the Nanpuhara Cultural Center is the Golden Forest Park.
In Kogane-no-Mori Park, there is a hospital bunker, and visitors can actually enter the hospital bunker to see what it is like.
On the way to the hospital dugout, you will pass by the Iiage-no-Michi, a route used to carry food to the hospital dugout during the war, and you can imagine what it was like at the time of the war.
Inside the hospital bunker, visitors can see in detail what the inside of the hospital bunker was like, including the operating rooms for the sick and the operating rooms for the wounded.
You can also see the relics and human bones from that time. There are not so many museums that show this much.
Point 2: Experience the “smell” of a hospital bunker from the time of the war at the Nambuhara Cultural Center in Nambuhara Town.
The Nanpuhara Cultural Center is also working to convey the experience of war through smell.
Based on the testimonies of people who experienced the war, the smell inside the hospital bunker at that time is reproduced.
Visitors can sniff bottles containing odors expressed by scientific chemicals that have no effect on the human body.
The smell of the odor bottles is said to smell like rotten food and toilets to some people, and it is easy to imagine the poor environment inside the hospital bunker.
The smells provide an experience that reaffirms the horrors of war.
Point 3: Nambuhara Cultural Center in Nambuhara Town, where you can learn about peace with a wealth of war materials.
At the Nanpuhara Cultural Center, you can see war materials in the permanent exhibition.
Visitors can learn about the war situation in the town of Nanpuhara through dioramas and objects used during the war. The flow of the war in Okinawa as a whole is also explained, so visitors can learn more about the war in Japan.
Visitors can also view video testimonies of people who experienced the war and survived.
Other exhibits include the history of postwar reconstruction, the history of immigration, and the lives and culture of the people.
