Okinawa Hotel Brick Building

A Brick Building from the Postwar Years

The Okinawa Hotel Brick Building (沖縄ホテルレンガ棟) is a rare survivor from the beginnings of hotels in postwar Okinawa of around 1949 in Daido, Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on March 6, 2024 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

The Agency records a two-storey building of reinforced concrete and brick with a tiled roof and a building area of 103 square metres; registration number 47-0090.

Concrete and Brick

The Okinawa Hotel Brick Building stands at the south-east of the site, a two-storey gabled building with a pantiled roof (Agency for Cultural Affairs). The ground floor is a reinforced-concrete frame with exposed brick facing, the upper floor is brick, and the roof rests on timber trusses.

Large rectangular openings pierce the walls, and each floor has two rooms (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Why It Was Registered

The Agency notes that it is a rare survivor from the beginnings of hotels in postwar Okinawa, and registered it as a structure that would not be easy to reproduce.

What to Look For

Look for the mixed construction, with exposed brick on the concrete ground floor and brick above (Agency for Cultural Affairs).

Visiting

It is owned by Okinawa Hotel Co., Ltd. (Agency for Cultural Affairs). No official information on the hotel's operation or on visits was found. The four registered structures are covered on the Okinawa Hotel group page.