Day 01
Okinawa Battle Sites and Peace Memorials
- Hacksaw Ridge - Duration: 75 minutes
- View the explanation board and learn about the Three Kingdoms period in the Ryukyu Archipelago.
- Walk for 5 minutes while learning about important historical sites.
- View the US landing point of 1 April 1945 and understand how the Battle of Okinawa began.
- Walk for 10 minutes while learning about key locations.
- Reach the top of Hacksaw Ridge and understand how fierce the battle was and how Desmond Doss saved 75 soldiers.
- Continue on a 10-minute historical walk.
- Visit Needle Rock.
- Walk for 15 minutes while learning about additional important sites.
- The Former Japanese Navy Underground Headquarters - Duration: 60 minutes
- Visit the Memorial Tower.
- Explore the visitor centre and museum.
- Enter the underground headquarters.
- Lunch - Duration: 60 minutes
- Enjoy lunch at a local cuisine restaurant or another venue of your choice.
- Lieutenant General Buckner Memorial - Duration: 10 minutes
- Visit the memorial monument dedicated to Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Commander of the US 10th Army, who was killed here on 18 June 1945.
- Himeyuri Monument and Himeyuri Peace Memorial Museum - Duration: 45 minutes
- Visit the Himeyuri Monument dedicated to female high school students who served in field hospitals and lost their lives.
- Enter the Himeyuri Peace Memorial Museum.
- Okinawa Peace Memorial Park - Duration: 30 minutes
- Walk through the park grounds.
- Observe the Cornerstone of Peace.
- View the Flame of Peace.
