Yonaguni Island
Japan's Westernmost Island, Two Ferries a Week from Ishigaki
Japan's westernmost inhabited island, 111 km from Taiwan, with sea cliffs, free-roaming Yonaguni ...
Hateruma Island
Japan's Southernmost Inhabited Island, Reached by an Open-Sea Boat That Often Doesn't Run
The southernmost inhabited island in Japan: about 440 people, sugarcane fields, the white sand of...
Zamami Island
Kerama Blue Water and Winter Humpbacks, 50 Minutes from Naha When the Boats Run
A small island of about 600 people in Keramashoto National Park, about 40 km west of Naha, with c...
Iriomote Island
Iriomote Island: Jungle, Mangrove Rivers and a Ferry That Stays in Port When the Sea Is Rough
Okinawa's second-largest island, nearly all subtropical forest and mangrove, and part of a World ...
Iejima
Iejima: Climb the 172 m Tatchu Rock, 30 Minutes by Ferry from Motobu
A flat farming island off the Motobu Peninsula, 30 minutes by village ferry, with one steep rock ...
Taketomi Island
Taketomi Island: Red-Tiled Village and White Sand Lanes, a Short Boat Ride from Ishigaki
A small, flat island 9.2 km around, where about 310 people live in a village of red-tiled houses,...
Kudaka Island
Kudaka Island: Ryukyu's 'Island of the Gods', 15 Minutes by Boat
A small, flat island about 8 km around off the south-east coast of Okinawa Island, revered since ...
Kumejima
Kumejima: A Sandbar You Reach Only by Boat, 100 km West of Okinawa
An island of about 7,000 people roughly 100 km west of Okinawa Island, reached by a 30-minute fli...