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Taketomi Island Deigo and Bougainvillea

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竹富島デイゴ並木 · Deigo · Kyushu & Okinawa

Deigo at Taketomi Island Deigo and Bougainvillea, Taketomi, Yaeyama District, Okinawa

Taketomi Island Deigo and Bougainvillea, photo 2

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Photos ippei & janine naoi (CC BY 2.0) · Syced (CC0) — via Wikimedia Commons

About this spot

The road from Taketomi's port to its red-tiled village is a deigo avenue listed among Okinawa's top 100 flower spots, red in spring. Bougainvillea spills over the village's coral-stone walls all year and is at its showiest around February.

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Taketomi, Yaeyama District, Okinawa

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