Shuri Castle · Geographic context
Historical place · East Asia
Shuri Castle
Also known as Shuri-jō, 首里城, Sui gusuku
The seat of the Ryukyu Kingdom above Naha on Okinawa, destroyed in 1945, rebuilt, and burned again in 2019.
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