Okuike

The altitude of Okuike allows it to have far reaching views, sometimes of 100 kilometers (or more) across Osaka Bay, towards the Nara prefecture, the Kii Mountains (Mount Hakkyō 1,914 meters), the Wakayama prefecture, Awajishima, Shikoku, Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Kobe, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge (明石海峡大橋, Akashi Kaikyō Ōhashi) and the Seto Inland Sea National Park.

The Okuyama Reservoir was completed beside the Okuike Lake in 1972, and both are still utilized today as a water source by Ashiya city.

Following this, more private houses were constructed and Okuike began its transformation from being a company retreat area to a being a residential neighborhood.

With regular bus services and its close proximity to Ashiya city, it considered to be a convenient place to live.

It has an altitude of between 500 and 600 meters on the Southern Aspect and is located towards the Eastern end of Mount Rokko in the Hyogo Prefecture of the Honshu Island in Japan.

Many residents in Okuike are considered to be affluent, high net worth individuals made up of business owners, entrepreneurs, and CEOs/Chairmen of major international corporations.

Other residents are said to be successful artists, fashion and jewelry designers, Nobel Prize winners, Olympians, and novelists.

There is a sizeable population of foreign residents in Okuike, with nationalities like the Scottish, English, Swiss, German, Norwegian, Australian, French, South African, Indian, Venezuelan, Peruvian, American, Canadian, Brazilian, Taiwanese, Israeli, and more.