Culture Naha Tug-of-War Festival 2024 Guilhem Malfre Every October, Naha hosts its annual Tug-of-War Festival, where competing teams face off with a 200-meter long rope – a Guinn...
Culture Disney's The Little Mermaid Jr Hillary Lewis Pacific Okinawa Players theatre group's production of The Little Mermaid Jr opens this weekend. This production is family and...
Food Taketora Ramen Restaurant Hillary Lewis Taketora is a popular ramen spot in Okinawa. Taketora's ramen is made with bone broth which is considered to be very good for...
Activities Okinawa Health and Wellbeing Bonson Lam Okinawa is home to some of the world’s oldest and healthiest people, with 34 centenarians per 100,000 people. Citizens of thi...
11 Activities Scuba Diving on Ishigaki Island Bronwyn O'Neill Head to Ishigaki Island if you want to go scuba diving in an Okinawan island paradise.
Transportation Fly Direct from Kaohsiung to Naha Bonson Lam Okinawa, or the Ryukyu Islands as they were known in earlier times, was the centre of maritime trade routes, from Taiwan, Tha...
Transportation Singapore to Okinawa Direct Flights Bonson Lam Jetstar will commence direct flights from Singapore to Okinawa from 17 November, 2017. This direct flight of just over 5 hour...
12 Culture Ishigaki Island's Psychedelic Shisa Bronwyn O'Neill The traditional lion-dogs of Okinawa get a rainbow makeover
Culture World Heritage Nakijin Castle Bonson Lam We still don't know who constructed Nakijin, though the excavations show that it was started in the 13th century. The fact th...
