Kakazu Takadai Park

Ginowan city records that the fighting here began around 6 April 1945 and lasted more than two weeks, as Japanese forces held the ridge against the American advance on Shuri. Soldiers on both sides died in great numbers, and 53 percent of the people of Kakazu village were killed. Villagers, including older people and women, had been made to dig the Japanese positions before the battle.

Today the hill is a neighbourhood park. A concrete pillbox about 3 to 4 m square with walls some 70 cm thick survives on the south side, scarred where it took American fire, and it is the only one left in Ginowan. A trench entrance remains, and visitors may not go inside.