# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Kokusai Street](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kokusai-street): Okinawa, Shopping. A 1.6-kilometer shopping and entertainment street that is the heart of Naha's tourism scene.
- [Kerama Islands](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/kerama-islands): Okinawa, Beach. A national park archipelago with some of Japan's clearest ocean water, excellent snorkeling, and whale watching.
- [Okinawa World](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/okinawa-world): Okinawa, Attraction. A sprawling theme park featuring one of Japan's largest limestone caves, a recreated Ryukyu Kingdom village, and traditional Okinawan cultural performances.
- [Shuri Castle](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shuri-castle): Okinawa, Castle. The reconstructed royal palace of the Ryukyu Kingdom, a mix of Chinese and Japanese architecture on a hill above Naha.
- [Naha](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/naha): Okinawa, City. The vibrant capital of Okinawa Prefecture and gateway to Japan's subtropical island chain.
- [Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/okinawa-churaumi-aquarium): Okinawa, Aquarium. Built around the Kuroshio Sea tank, one of the largest in the world, which holds whale sharks and manta rays.
- [Miyako-jima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/miyako-jima): Okinawa, Beach. A coral island in the far south, closer to Taiwan than to the Japanese mainland, ringed by white sand.
- [Ishigaki Island](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/ishigaki-island): Okinawa, Beach. A tropical island in the Yaeyama Islands with vivid coral reefs, white sand beaches, and crystal-clear waters.
- [Sefa-utaki](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/sefa-utaki): Okinawa, Historic site. The holiest site of the Ryukyu Kingdom: a forest on a limestone headland in Nanjo, where a slippery stone path leads to prayer sites under overhanging rock. It is one of the nine parts of the Gusuku Sites World Heritage property. Admission rose to 600 yen on 1 October 2026, the site shuts for six days a year by the lunar calendar, and repairs limit what you can see until 5 January 2027.
- [Iriomote Island](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/iriomote-island): Okinawa, Island. Okinawa's second-largest island, nearly all subtropical forest and mangrove, and part of a World Natural Heritage site since 2021. There is no airport: you fly to Ishigaki and take a 40 to 55 minute ferry, and the northern route to Uehara is the one that gets cancelled when the sea is rough.
- [Yanbaru](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yanbaru): Okinawa, Region. The hilly, forested north of Okinawa Island, spread over the villages of Kunigami, Ogimi and Higashi. Its subtropical evergreen forest is the only home of the flightless Okinawa rail and the Okinawa woodpecker, and about 7,700 hectares of it make up the Northern part of Okinawa Island, one of the four areas of Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, Northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island, a World Natural Heritage site inscribed in 2021. Come by car: buses are sparse and the best-known waterfall trail is closed.
- [Tamaudun](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tamaudun): Okinawa, Historic site. The tomb of the Second Sho Dynasty kings, built around 1501 by King Sho Shin: a walled courtyard of white coral gravel in front of a long stone building in three chambers, guarded by carved lions. It was the first building in Okinawa to be named a National Treasure (2018) and is one of the nine parts of the Gusuku Sites World Heritage property. A few minutes west of Shureimon, 300 yen, open every day.
- [Yonaguni Island](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yonaguni-island): Okinawa, Island. Japan's westernmost inhabited island, 111 km from Taiwan, with sea cliffs, free-roaming Yonaguni horses and a disputed underwater rock formation. RAC flies small propeller planes in from Ishigaki and Naha; the ferry from Ishigaki sails twice a week and takes about 4 hours.
- [Shikinaen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shikinaen): Okinawa, Garden. A royal villa and strolling garden on a hill in Naha, laid out in 1799 and used to host envoys of the Chinese emperor. Japanese garden planning, a Chinese-style pavilion and stone bridges, and red-tiled Ryukyu roofs all sit round one pond. Destroyed in 1945 and rebuilt by 1996, it is one of the nine parts of the Gusuku Sites World Heritage property. Closed on Wednesdays.
- [Hateruma Island](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hateruma-island): Okinawa, Island. The southernmost inhabited island in Japan: about 440 people, sugarcane fields, the white sand of Nishihama and the Southernmost Point monument at Cape Takanazaki. The boat from Ishigaki crosses open sea and is often cancelled in winter, and the small plane that also flies here has had long suspensions in 2026.

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Last updated: 2026-11-12