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Ogasawara NP, Tokyo
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A 2025 study identifies today’s Oki Port as the likely landing place of castaways from a 1670 Awa citrus boat. Their plight helped prompt the shogunate’s 1675 expedition to the islands.
In November 1983, a typhoon scattered about 300 of Oki Port’s 5-tonne breakwater blocks and swept away a 100-tonne construction crane. The harbor’s defenses faced a mighty test.
Okinomura formed a sugar-industry cooperative in 1895. War interrupted Ogasawara’s rum-making tradition, but production restarted on Hahajima in the Heisei era.
Before the 1944 evacuation, Oki Port’s pier opened onto Okinomura’s busy main street, lined with a cargo shed, post office, shops and bonito factory. A local historian likens this waterfront business district to a tiny “Ginza.”
Before the war, islanders could board at Oki Port directly for mainland Japan. The scheduled Hahajima–Chichijima ferry began in May 1976 with a 218-tonne ship; the trip took 3½ hours.
About 3,000 people lived on Hahajima in 1900. After wartime evacuation and years away, 122 people settled on the island in 1972, beginning its postwar rebuilding centered on Okinomura by Oki Port.
