This post is part of a series on artistic manhole covers around Japan.
Right before I left Okinawa last month, I was lucky enough to stay in one of the island’s swank resorts while waiting for our flight out. This manhole cover was right outside our hotel’s front door:
Its design is simple, but to me it suggests the fireworks that frequently light up the skies of southern Okinawa in the summertime. We had just caught a few bursts from the balcony of our hotel room the night before so it seemed a fitting image for the community.
I suppose the cover could be more inspiring but then again, so could the town of Ginowan. It’s kind of sandwiched in between more desirable locales – Chatan, with its ever-expanding American village complex, and the city of Naha, the only metropolis on the island that can rival a city on the Japanese mainland. Ginowan does boast the convention center and a pretty piece of coastline but besides that, there’s not much there.
AS you said, not as exciting as some of the other manhole posts, but still pretty and better than any I have seen here in the states.