Location: south of Naha, heading south on the 58, it becomes the 331 after it passes over Naha port/Meiji bridge. Turn L on the 7 (which comes off after Oumuyama park) and follow the signs; at the 7 fork bear R, then take a L as instructed to get to the site, which is on top of the hill. Unless it is a crowded summer's day, skip the first parking lot and park near the visitor's center.
Hours: 8:30a-5p; 420Y admission
http://www.jahitchcock.com/navalhq.html
http://www.okinawa.usmc.mil/Public%20Affairs%20Info/Archive%20News%20Pages/2006/060901-cave.html
This site is a network of hand-wrought tunnels with a few artists' renditions of life in the tunnels and a few artifacts on display in the small museum. It is difficult, in the cool calm underground, to imagine the place packed with 4000 hungry soldiers facing certain defeat. The view from the hilltop lookout provides another perspective - the challenge for the US armed forces of taking each little cave/trench/tunnel-ridden hill you see rising up from what is now the densely packed Naha cityscape.
