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Keramashoto NP, Okinawa
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Tokashiku’s shallows are a sea-turtle dining room: turtles often glide close to shore to graze on seaweed. They’re why the beach is known for turtle encounters; watch from a distance and let them feed undisturbed.
The beach stretches about 800 m along a quiet cove sheltered by hills on 3 sides. Its village is Tokashiku, not Tokashiki—the name of the island—so even the almost-twin place names can trip up map readers.
A 12 m tunnel behind the beach once hid Maru-Re attack boats. Village records say Korean military laborers dug the hard black slate, with local young women helping; archaeology dates construction to after September 1944.
The boats concealed here were small plywood craft, not warships: each Maru-Re measured 5.6 m long, 1.8 m wide and 1,200 kg, carrying two 120 kg depth charges for attacks on U.S. ships.
A U.S. film from the war’s end shows boats inside the Tokashiku bunker—and, at about 3:00, an American serviceman driving one. It’s a remarkable postwar twist for craft built for special attacks.
Local testimony recalls 2 rails running from the bunker toward the beach, roughly 100 m away, to roll boats to sea. After the war, residents reportedly reused them as house foundations; archaeologists found no surviving traces.
A 2001 typhoon collapsed a road in Tokashiku’s stream catchment, washing red soil toward the reef. Repairs and reseeding the bare slope reduced runoff; by 2003, Okinawa’s surveys found seabed sediment improving.
