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title: Kouri Bridge
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journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/okinawa-kominka/
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# Kouri Bridge

A little of each town’s story　/　Motobu, Okinawa

A 1,960-meter bridge linking Yagaji Island in Nago with Kouri Island in Nakijin. It opened in 2005 and is free to cross. Before the bridge, the only way to Kouri was by ferry from Motobu.

Kouri, Nakijin, Kunigami District, Okinawa

## This moment in the journey: Over the bridge for zenzai

The weather was fine, warm enough to call it hot, so I crossed the Kouri Bridge to go and eat zenzai. In Okinawa, zenzai means shaved ice.

At the end of a lane leading down to the sea stood a little shop with banners out front, and a heaping bowl of shaved ice arrived. On top sat sweetly simmered kintoki beans and rice-flour dumplings, with the deep scent of brown sugar. I ate it spoonful by spoonful, looking past the palm fronds at the blue sea and the bridge.

![The Kouri Bridge stretching across the blue sea](https://karigurashijourney.com/img/okinawa-kominka/s35-1200.jpg)
- Sources: https://www.gltjp.com/ja/directory/item/14862/

Read this scene in the full journey: https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/okinawa-kominka/