Drive & Rental
About 70% of Okinawa visitors rent a car — yet foreign-driver property-damage incidents reached 3,801 per year, accounti...
Food & Dining
Naha's beating heart: the 1.6-km Kokusai Street. Reborn from postwar ashes as the "Miracle Mile," this iconic strip pack...
Nature & Beaches
About 80 minutes from Naha by car, the clifftop prairie of Cape Manzamo in Onna Village won praise from Ryukyu King Shog...
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Activities
An hour's drive from Naha, the Blue Cave hides beneath the cliffs of Cape Maeda in Onna Village. Sunlight refracts off t...
Food & Dining
Why is it called "soba" when it contains no buckwheat at all? In 1976, Okinawans fought a government ruling to keep the ...
History & Culture
The capital of the Ryukyu Kingdom for 450 years (1429-1879), Shuri Castle was reduced to ashes in 2019. Now being rebuil...
Drive & Rental
Okinawa Main Island is just 120km north-to-south and as narrow as 4km, yet its drive courses are infinite. Cape Hedo cli...
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Festivals & Events
Shimi (tomb-sweeping festival), Haarii (dragon boat racing), Obon Eisa, Naha Great Tug-of-War, and Muchi — seven major t...
Practical Tips
Okinawa's rainy season starts around May 10 and ends around June 21. Rain comes in 30-minute to 1-hour tropical squalls,...
Island Hopping
Just 35 minutes by high-speed boat from Naha, Tokashiki is the largest Kerama island. Kerama Blue waters with 50m visibi...
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Festivals & Events
Eisa is a 400-year-old traditional drum dance performed during Okinawa's Obon to welcome ancestral spirits. Three drum t...
Shopping
From the Tsuboya pottery street unified by King Sho Tei in 1682 to Yomitan pottery village, Ryukyu glass born from post-...