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Upstairs in the port-terminal museum hangs a complete humpback calf skeleton, over 5 m long—one of very few displayed in Japan. It washed ashore on nearby Hanari Island.
The waiting room’s animal displays hint at wildlife beyond the reef: the Kerama ground gecko occurs only on Tokashiki and Aka. Japan’s Environment Ministry lists it as Endangered IB.
Each lunar June 25, Tokashiki’s east and west pull ropes braided from first-crop rice straw. Tradition says an eastern win forecasts good fishing, a western win a rich harvest; families make kashichi, a new-rice sticky rice, in thanks.
The upstairs museum models Tokashiki’s old bonito factory: fishing began here in 1903, and its earnings helped replace thatched roofs with tile. The factory closed in 1964; part of its brick chimney survives.
The upstairs museum preserves wartime clothing and photographs. Tokashiki records 329 residents dying at North Mountain on March 28, 1945, the day after U.S. troops landed; the village still holds an annual memorial on that date.
