Himeyuri Peace Museum
The Student Nurses of 1945 in Their Own Words
A museum beside the Himeyuri Monument in Itoman, founded in 1989 by the alumni association of the...
Naminoue Shrine
Naminoue Shrine: Naha's Cliff-Top Shrine Above the City Beach
A shrine on a limestone cliff at the edge of Naha, ranked first among the eight official shrines ...
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 ...
Sefa-utaki
Sefa-utaki: Ryukyu's Holiest Forest, a Slippery Stone Path and a Rock Passage You Now See Only From the Front
The holiest site of the Ryukyu Kingdom: a forest on a limestone headland in Nanjo, where a slippe...
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,...
Ryukyu Mura
Old Okinawan farmhouses, eisa drums and a buffalo-turned sugar press
A village of red-tiled farmhouses moved here from around Okinawa, eight of them registered cultur...
Junglia Okinawa
Dinosaurs, balloons and jungle rides in the Yanbaru hills
Okinawa's newest theme park, opened in July 2025 on a former golf course in the northern hills. A...
Katsuren Castle Ruins
Tiered limestone walls rise like a stone ship above the Katsuren Peninsula. The World Heritage ru...
Michi-no-Eki Kadena
A rooftop view over Kadena Air Base
A four-story roadside station beside the fence of Kadena Air Base, the largest US Air Force base ...
Nakijin Castle Ruins
Long, curving stone walls cross the wooded hills of northern Okinawa at the former seat of the Ho...
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...
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 ...
Shikinaen
Shikinaen: The Ryukyu Kings' Garden Villa Where Chinese Envoys Were Entertained, Quiet and Shut on Wednesdays
A royal villa and strolling garden on a hill in Naha, laid out in 1799 and used to host envoys of...
Michi-no-Eki Yuiyui Kunigami
Last stop for supplies before the Yanbaru forest
The only roadside station in Kunigami, the northernmost village on Okinawa Island, on Route 58 ne...