The government will hold a ceremony on Nov. 22 to mark restoration work being completed on Shuri Castle’s main hall in Okinawa Prefecture, which burned down in 2019, Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said on Tuesday.
The castle is “a very important building that is a source of pride not only for the people of Okinawa, but also for our country,” Kihara said at a news conference.
Shuri Castle in Naha was the center of the Ryukyu Kingdom, which governed the Okinawa region for about 450 years from 1429.
Restoration work for the main hall began in November 2022 following the October 2019 fire.
AloJapan.com