Village Streets
Faced with limited amounts of usable land, the islanders developed a culture of constructing village homes in a grid of close proximity. Homes generally are two- or three-story structures, and the roads so narrow that handcarts are the only means of hauling supplies in and out. Mazes of tiny streets are the norm. The dead end in the village center is called sande-no-soko by local residents—a reference to the curlicue-shaped bottom of a turban shell.