Food Made in Okinawa Sherilyn Siy Sometimes, when travel is not possible (crossing prefectures is still strongly discouraged at the moment), local food can man...
Food Cafe Halcyon Kim Bergström Cafe Halcon is located in Chatan, Okinawa, right across from the Sunabe Sea Wall. The cafe serves up a range of tasty vegan e...
Food Shima Chubo Kafuu Kim Bergström Shima Chubo Kafuu is located in the Kunigami district of Okinawa, and offers a range of vegan sweet treats. The dessert cafe ...
10 Activities Water Buffalo Cart Ride in Ishigaki Manish Prabhune Awesome experience to access remote islands on a water buffalo wading through sea water! The water buffalo originating from n...
Food Okinawa Longevity Cuisine Alena Eckelmann A mix of favourable natural conditions and diverse foreign influences produced unique eating habits and a cooking style that ...
Food Okinawa Cooking at Yonner Food (Part 1) Alena Eckelmann Learn how to cook Okinawan dishes with Kazumi Kayo, a local of Naha City, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture. She runs Yonner ...
Activities Nago Cherry Blossom Festival 2027 Kim Bergström Being Japan's southernmost prefecture, Okinawa's cherry blossoms, or sakura, bloom in the months of January and February. A w...
Culture Ryukyu Lantern Festival 2026-2027 Bonson Lam It is said that in many moons ago in China, women were not allowed out of the house at night, except on the 15th day of the C...
Culture The Kitchen God of Sefa Utaki Bonson Lam Sefa Utaki is the Okinawan way of acknowledging the “ultimate ancestor”, the creator of the Ryukyu Islands. It is a place of...
Activities Cherry Blossom in Okinawa Japan Travel Okinawa's cherry blossoms are the first to bloom in Japan every year. Because of the warm climate, they are different from th...
