The monument of Ihara No.1 Surgery Bunker

sit in amazement

This trench is not too easy to find. However it’s a remarkable place once found to visit. This cave is connected with the Himeyuri corps. Read about the history before visiting.

Very eerie down under

If you read the previous reviews, they were all written in Japanese by Japanese reviewers. As such I was curious about this place and drove over as it was very close to the strawberry farm that I went...

The moat where the entrance remains.

Original Text

It is within walking distance from the site of the Ihara Third Surgery Cave where the Himeyuri Tower is located. Former 々 I was going to go here and checked the location, but it was difficult to understand after entering the side road and it took time to find it. It is a place where you can feel the horror of those days in the quiet grass. Now it is not large enough for many people. I was worried that I would not know in decades, with only the entrance to the trench remaining. Japanese history and ...

One of the "gama"

Original Text

There are many caves in Okinawa where citizens and military personnel were sheltered and housed, and this is one of them. It's called surgery, but probably there wasn't a satisfactory medical facility. It seems that many people died here.

Sweet and sweet rust flutter in the wind of itomitsu.

Original Text

After visiting the tower of ９ ３０ minutes in the morning, I came here for the first time this time. As with the "Ihara Third Surgery Cave" visited by many worshipers, this "Ihara First Surgery Cave" is also a place where the Himeyuri Gakuin Tai troop (Okinawa Normal School Women's Club and Okinawa Prefectural Daiichi High School Girls' School) carried out nursing activities. It seems that he was desperately nursing in a poor environment where he could not even ventilate to hide himself from the approaching US military, and he was desperately nursing while he was short of medicine and doctors. Also, Himeyuri's companion is a gun ...