ニャティヤ洞 — Attraction in Ie

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It is a spiritual place of child-giving on Ie Island, a bizarre victory formed by marine eclipses, it is also a natural air defense shelter that protected people from the ship's fire shooting and air raids by the US military. This is not a tourist attraction in a general sense, there are neither a souvenir shop nor a restaurant in the surroundings. There is only a parking lot and a toilet, so it can slowly get hurtful. It was a weekday in January that I visited, so I got close to myself shortly after several guests. Tampering at the back of the cave, it is blocked from the ground by a thick bedrock that prevented the attack of the US Army, and it will be an amazing silence in the interval between the waves. You can taste a strange feeling as if you are in a narrow space between the opposite world. Ie Island is one of the most fierce battlefields even in the battle of Okinawa, which is frustrating, but this is a battlefield that makes life stronger than death. It is...

Being half Iejimanchu I have been here many times. Before my sister and I was born they used to have a stone in the cave and when the pregnant woman picked it up if it was heavy if you were having a boy and it would feel lighter if you were having a daughter. Both times it was accurate for our family. Later on some tourists took the stone. Now it is replaced with stones with-a chain on it cuz someone will steal it again even though it’s just a prop. Lots of stories about this place from the locals and from some...

An interesting site that is not well advertised in the English language, this cave shouldn't be passed up, on a trip to Ie Island. A thousand Okinawans, survived the assault on this island, during WWII by living in this cave. There is also, a stone which women lift, to determine the sex of their, yet to be born, babies. If the rock is heavy, to lift, it will be a boy. Not too heavy, indicates the baby...