# Ride Okinawa

> An independent guide to Okinawa and the Ryukyu islands, with a specialization in cycling. It covers 36 islands, 131 places to stay, 88 beaches and dive sites, 326 restaurants and bars, ferries and island flights with their bike rules, and 9 cycling routes whose distance, climbing, surface, traffic and wind exposure are computed from OpenStreetMap and elevation data.

Facts come from official, operator and municipal sites and the Japan Meteorological Agency, checked in the month shown on each page. Route statistics are computed from OpenStreetMap with a bike routing profile and AWS Terrain Tiles elevation data. Prices are in Japanese yen for the season stated. The site earns affiliate commission on some bookings.

## Regions
- [Naha & Shuri](https://rideokinawa.com/regions/naha): Most trips start at Naha's airport, a short monorail ride from Kokusai-dori. The old royal capital of Shuri sits on the ridge above the city, and the potters' lanes of Tsuboya run down toward the market where the city still does its shopping.
- [The South](https://rideokinawa.com/regions/south): Sugar cane, limestone cliffs and the island's most sacred grove fill the south. This is where the Battle of Okinawa ended, and the peace memorials at Mabuni ask for an unhurried afternoon. Cafés perch on the Chinen headland, and Ojima fries tempura at the end of a short bridge.
- [Central Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/regions/central): Chatan's seawall, Koza's music bars and the base towns along Route 58 show the American side of the island. Out east the Kaichu Doro sea road crosses the shallows to four islands that still farm and fish, and two of the finest castle walls in the kingdom stand on the ridges above.
- [Yomitan & Onna](https://rideokinawa.com/regions/west-coast): The resort coast runs north from Yomitan's potters' village to the cliffs at Cape Manzamo, past hotel beaches and fishing ports. Divers queue at the Maeda headland for the Blue Cave whenever the swell lets them in.
- [Nago & Motobu](https://rideokinawa.com/regions/motobu): The Motobu peninsula holds the aquarium, the fukugi-tree lanes of Bise and the soba road, with Kouri and Sesoko a bridge away. Cherry trees on Yaedake flower from late January, when the climb to the summit turns pink.
- [Yanbaru](https://rideokinawa.com/regions/yanbaru): The forested north is a national park and home to the flightless Okinawa rail. Roads wind up the coast to Cape Hedo past villages that live on shikuwasa and fishing, and the climbs inland are the hardest riding on the island.
- [Kerama Islands](https://rideokinawa.com/regions/kerama): An hour or less by boat from Naha's Tomari Port, the Keramas have water clear enough to earn its own name, Kerama blue. Humpback whales come to calve offshore through the winter, and the villages go quiet once the last ferry leaves.
- [Kume-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/regions/kume): Kume-jima sits a short flight west of Naha with a long white sandbar off its east coast. The island rides well in a day, and the village of Nakazato keeps its stone walls and old houses.
- [Miyako Islands](https://rideokinawa.com/regions/miyako): Miyako is flat, ringed by reef and linked to its neighbours by long bridges you can ride across in a morning. Maehama and Sunayama draw the crowds, and the island has its own soba, its own language and its own way of drinking.
- [Yaeyama Islands](https://rideokinawa.com/regions/yaeyama): Ishigaki is the hub for a ring of islands with nothing else like them in Japan: the jungle and mangrove rivers of Iriomote, Taketomi's coral-sand lanes, the cattle pastures of Kuroshima. Boats leave Ishigaki's island terminal all day, and the furthest go to Hateruma under the Southern Cross.
- [Yoron](https://rideokinawa.com/regions/yoron): Yoron belongs to Kagoshima but sits within sight of Okinawa's northern cape. A road loops the whole island, and at low tide a sandbar called Yurigahama rises out of the lagoon.

## Islands
- [Aka-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/aka): Aka-jima is a 3.80 km² island of about 235 people in Zamami Village that the high-speed Queen Zamami reaches from Naha's Tomari Port in about 50 minutes, and its 530 m bridge to Geruma makes it the one place in the Keramas where you can ride between islands.
- [Geruma-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/geruma): Geruma-jima is a 1.15 km² island of about 48 people in Zamami Village that the 530 m Aka Ohashi joins to Aka and the 240 m Geruma bridge joins to Fukaji and the Kerama airport, and its Kerama deer and their habitat are a national natural monument.
- [Hamahiga-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/hamahiga): Hamahiga-jima is a 2.09 km² island in Uruma that the 900 m Hamahiga Ohashi joins to Henza, and Ryukyuan tradition makes it the home of the creator deities Amamikyu and Shinerikyu. About 410 people live in its two red-tiled villages of Hama and Higa.
- [Hateruma-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/hateruma): Hateruma-jima is Japan's southernmost inhabited island and lies 60–90 minutes by high-speed boat south-west of Ishigaki; its 442 people farm sugar cane on 12.73 km², with Nishihama beach on the north shore and the Southern Cross in the winter sky.
- [Hatoma-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/hatoma): Hatoma-jima is a 0.96 km² island of about 60 people that lies 5.4 km north of Iriomote and 45 to 80 minutes by boat from Ishigaki, and a ring of beaches surrounds it in the water locals call Hatoma blue. Its boats run via Uehara on some sailings and cancel when that route does in rough seas.
- [Henza-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/henza): Henza-jima is the island at the end of the 4.75 km Kaichu Doro sea road in Uruma, and anyone driving or cycling to Hamahiga, Miyagi or Ikei crosses it. About 1,170 people live in its fishing village on the south shore, and an oil terminal fills the north of the island.
- [Ie-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/ie-jima): Ie-jima is a flat 22.77 km² island 30 minutes by ferry from Motobu, where the 172.2 m rock peak of Gusuku-yama rises above fields of Easter lilies in late April.
- [Ikei-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/ikei): Ikei-jima is the last island on the road from the Kaichu Doro in Uruma, and the 198 m Ikei Ohashi from Miyagi carries you onto its flat 1.72 km² of farmland. Its 247 residents live in one village on the south side, and Ikei Beach and Odomari Beach on the west coast draw summer swimmers.
- [Ikema](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/ikema): Ikema is a 2.80 km² fishing island of 468 people that the 1,425 m Ikema Ohashi joins to Miyako-jima's north-west tip, and Okinawa's largest wetland fills its centre.
- [Irabu](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/irabu): Irabu is a 29.07 km² island of about 4,600 people linked to Miyako-jima by the 3,540 m Irabu Ohashi and to Shimoji by six short channel bridges.
- [Iriomote-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/iriomote): Iriomote-jima is the largest island in the Yaeyama group at 289.62 km² and has been a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site since 2021; its 2,324 people live along one coast road beside mangrove rivers and the forest home of the Iriomote cat.
- [Ishigaki-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/ishigaki): Ishigaki-jima is the 222.5 km² gateway to the Yaeyama Islands, where the airport and the ferry terminal for Taketomi, Kohama, Kuroshima and Hatoma both sit. About 47,000 people live in Ishigaki City, and the island's north rises to Omoto-dake, which at 525.5 m is the highest point in Okinawa Prefecture.
- [Kohama-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/kohama): Kohama-jima is a 7.9 km² island of about 800 people that lies 25 to 30 minutes by boat from Ishigaki, and it is known for cane-field lanes like the Sugar Road and for the view from 99 m Ufudaki over almost every island in Yaeyama. Hills make an e-bike or a car the easy way round.
- [Kouri-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/kouri): Kouri-jima is a 3.17 km² island in Nakijin village joined to Yagaji-jima by the 1,960 m Kouri Bridge, with Heart Rock on its north shore and a short loop road around its coast.
- [Kudaka-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/kudaka): Kudaka-jima is a flat 1.38 km² island off the Chinen peninsula in Nanjo that Ryukyu belief holds sacred; boats from Azama port take 15–25 minutes, and the island is best explored slowly by rental bike.
- [Kume-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/kume-jima): Kume-jima is the fifth-largest island in Okinawa at 59.53 km², and from Naha it takes about 30 minutes by air or three hours by ferry; visitors come for the Hatenohama sandbars, which run about 7 km in all some 5 km off its east coast, and for the Tatami-ishi rock pavement on Ou-jima.
- [Kurima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/kurima): Kurima is a 2.82 km² farm island of 152 people that the 1,690 m Kurima Ohashi joins to Miyako-jima, and its observatory and cafés sit near the bridge.
- [Kuroshima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/kuroshima): Kuroshima is a flat, heart-shaped island of 10 km² and about 220 people that lies 25 to 30 minutes by boat from Ishigaki, and its cattle outnumber residents more than ten to one. It suits an easy bike day through pasture to Nakamoto beach and Iko pier.
- [Minna-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/minna): Minna-jima is a 0.47 km² crescent-shaped island off Motobu, 15 minutes by boat from Toguchi port, with a little over 40 residents and a white-sand beach on its west side.
- [Miyagi-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/miyagi): Miyagi-jima is the highest of the Kaichu Doro islands in Uruma: its 5.54 km² of farm plateau rise to 121.4 m, and bridges link it to Henza and Ikei. About 635 people live in its four villages, and the Nuchima-su salt factory and the Kafu Banta cliff lookout bring most visitors.
- [Miyako-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/miyako-jima): Miyako-jima is a flat limestone island of 158.54 km² and about 50,300 people that sits 45 minutes by air from Naha and has no rivers.
- [Ogami](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/ogami): Ogami is a 0.24 km² sacred island of 20 people off Miyako-jima's north coast; the Ogami Kaiun ferry from Shimajiri is the only way over, and visitors may walk only in the village.
- [Ojima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/ojima): Ojima is a 0.23 km² fishing island joined by a short bridge to Tamagusuku in Nanjo, about 40 minutes from Naha, and it is known for its tempura stands and its haari boat race.
- [Okinawa Island (Okinawa Honto)](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/okinawa-honto): Okinawa Island is the largest island of the Ryukyus, about 107 km long with an area of 1,207 km², and roughly nine in ten of Okinawa Prefecture's people live on it, along with the capital, Naha, and the main airport.
- [Ou-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/ou-jima): Ou-jima is a 0.63 km² island of 29 people that a sea road and bridge join to Kume-jima's east coast, and the andesite columns of Tatami-ishi on its shore have been a national natural monument since 29 July 2014 and show best at low tide.
- [Sesoko-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/sesoko): Sesoko-jima is a 2.99 km² island off Motobu that the 762 m Sesoko Bridge joins to the peninsula, with the 800 m Sesoko Beach on its west coast.
- [Shimoji](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/shimoji): Shimoji is a 9.68 km² island of 99 people beside Irabu, and Shimojishima Airport's 3,000 m runway fills most of it.
- [Taketomi-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/taketomi): Taketomi-jima is a flat 5.4 km² island 10 to 15 minutes by boat from Ishigaki, where about 310 people live in a protected village of red-tiled houses and white sand lanes. Visitors cycle it on rental bikes and stay for the sunset at Nishi pier.
- [Tarama](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/tarama): Tarama is a flat 19.81 km² farming island of about 1,000 people halfway between Miyako and Ishigaki, and a 20–25 minute RAC flight or a 2-hour ferry from Hirara reaches it.
- [Tokashiki-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/tokashiki): Tokashiki-jima is the largest of the Kerama Islands at 15.31 km², and the high-speed Marine Liner Tokashiki reaches it from Naha's Tomari Port in about 35 minutes, which makes it the quickest Kerama crossing from Naha; Aharen and Tokashiku beaches sit on its west coast.
- [Tonaki-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/tonaki): Tonaki-jima is a 3.58 km² island of 291 people that the Kume Shosen ferry reaches from Naha's Tomari Port in about two hours, and its whole village of white sand lanes and fukugi windbreaks has been a national Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings since 25 May 2000.
- [Tsuken-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/tsuken): Tsuken-jima is a flat 1.88 km² farming island off Uruma that you reach in 15 to 30 minutes by boat from Heshikiya port, and its carrot fields give it the nickname Carrot Island. About 380 people live in the village by the port.
- [Yagaji-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/yagaji): Yagaji-jima is a low 7.82 km² island in Nago city, joined to the main island by the Yagaji and Warumi bridges and to Kouri-jima by the Kouri Bridge, with mangroves on its tidal flats.
- [Yonaguni-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/yonaguni): Yonaguni-jima is Japan's westernmost island and lies about 111 km from Taiwan; 1,654 people live on its 28.82 km² of cliffs and pasture, which you reach by air from Naha or Ishigaki or by a four-hour ferry from Ishigaki.
- [Yoron-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/yoron): Yoron-jima is the southernmost island of Kagoshima Prefecture and lies about 23 km north of Cape Hedo on Okinawa; the flat 20.58 km² coral island is reached by a 40-minute flight from Naha or a 2 hour 30 minute ferry from Motobu and is known for the Yurigahama sandbar that rises at low tide.
- [Zamami-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/islands/zamami): Zamami-jima is a 6.70 km² island in the western Keramas that the high-speed Queen Zamami reaches from Naha's Tomari Port in 50 to 70 minutes, and from early January to late March it is the base for humpback whale watching in the Kerama Shoto National Park.

## Cycling routes
- [ikema-loop](https://rideokinawa.com/routes/ikema-loop): 40.7 km, 197 m climbing, moderate. 
- [Kaichu Doro and the four islands](https://rideokinawa.com/routes/kaichu-doro-islands): 34.5 km, 272 m climbing, easy. 
- [Kouri-jima and Yagaji loop](https://rideokinawa.com/routes/kouri-yagaji-loop): 25 km, 261 m climbing, easy. 
- [kurima-loop](https://rideokinawa.com/routes/kurima-loop): 12 km, 86 m climbing, easy. 
- [miyako-bridges](https://rideokinawa.com/routes/miyako-bridges): 47.2 km, 234 m climbing, hard. 
- [Miyakojima triathlon bike course](https://rideokinawa.com/routes/miyakojima-triathlon-course): 121.7 km, 746 m climbing, epic. 
- [Motobu Peninsula loop from Nago](https://rideokinawa.com/routes/motobu-peninsula-loop): 
- [Warumi and Kouri bridges from Nago](https://rideokinawa.com/routes/warumi-kouri-bridges): 42.5 km, 383 m climbing, moderate. 
- [Yaedake climb through the cherry trees](https://rideokinawa.com/routes/yaedake-climb): 

## Ride days

## Getting around: ferries, flights, airports
- [Okinawa Airport Limousine Bus](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/airport-limousine): The Okinawa Airport Limousine Bus is Okinawa Bus's seated coach from Naha Airport stop 1 to resort hotels in Ginowan, Chatan, Yomitan, Onna and Nago, with adult fares of ¥700 to ¥2,200 from 1 April 2026, one to four departures a day per hotel area, and rides of about 40 minutes to Ginowan and 1 hour 47 minutes to the Ritz-Carlton Okinawa.
- [Aka Port](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/aka-port): Aka Port is the harbour on Aka-jima in the Keramas, where Zamami Village's boats from Naha call before or after Zamami (50 minutes on the Queen Zamami 3, 90 minutes on Ferry Zamami 3) and the village boat Mitsushima runs to Zamami four times a day.
- [All Nippon Airways (ANA)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ana): ANA flies Naha–Ishigaki, Naha–Miyako and Miyako–Ishigaki plus mainland routes into Okinawa, and on economy fares it carries a bicycle free as one of two 23 kg pieces, with no size charge up to 292 cm.
- [Azama to Kudaka-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/azama-kudaka): Kudaka Kaiun runs a high-speed boat (about 15 minutes, ¥760 one way) and Ferry Kudaka (about 25 minutes, ¥670) from Azama Port in Nanjo to Kudaka-jima, six round trips a day between them.
- [Azama Port](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/azama-port): Azama Port in Chinen, Nanjo, is the departure point for Kudaka Kaiun's boats to Kudaka-jima, six round trips a day in 15–25 minutes, with a ticket office open 8:00–17:30 and a car park.
- [Car rental in Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/car-rental-okinawa): Renting a car in Okinawa means a free shuttle from Naha Airport to an off-airport lot, a car-park pickup at Ishigaki and desks in the terminal on Kume-jima, and visitors need an International Driving Permit issued under the 1949 Geneva Convention, or a JAF Japanese translation for licences from Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, Monaco or Taiwan, valid for up to a year from entry.
- [Hateruma Port](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/hateruma-port): Hateruma Port is the harbour on Hateruma-jima, served only by Anei Kanko from Ishigaki in 60–90 minutes, twice a day on the high-speed boat in winter 2026/27.
- [Heshikiya Port](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/heshikiya-port): Heshikiya Port on the Katsuren peninsula in Uruma is where Kamiya Kanko's boats leave for Tsuken-jima five times a day; the crossing takes about 15 minutes on the high-speed boat and 30 minutes on the car ferry.
- [Heshikiya to Tsuken-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/heshikiya-tsuken): Kamiya Kanko's boats cross from Heshikiya Port in Uruma to Tsuken-jima five times a day, in about 15 minutes on the high-speed New Kugani or 30 minutes on Ferry Kugani, for ¥650–800 one way, and carry a bicycle for ¥200.
- [Hirara Port](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/hirara-port): Hirara Port in Miyako's main town is where Tarama Kaiun's Ferry Tarama III leaves for Tarama-jima at 9:00 every day except Sunday and takes about 2 hours.
- [Hirara (Miyako) to Tarama-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/hirara-tarama): Tarama Kaiun's Ferry Tarama III sails from Hirara Port on Miyako to Tarama-jima in about 2 hours for ¥2,510 one way, once a day except Sundays, and carries a bicycle for ¥1,180.
- [Tokyo Haneda to Shimojishima](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/hnd-shi): Skymark flies once a day from Tokyo Haneda to Shimojishima in winter 2026/27; the flight leaves Haneda at 11:05 and lands at 14:30, so you reach Miyako from Tokyo without changing in Naha.
- [Tokyo Haneda to Kume-jima (summer)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/hnd-ueo): JAL flew Tokyo Haneda to Kume-jima once a day from 17 July to 31 August 2026, 2 hours 40 minutes outbound, and the route doesn't run in winter.
- [Ie Port](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ie-port): Ie Port is the harbour on Ie-jima, 30 minutes from Motobu on Ie Village's ferries, with the first boat to the main island at 8:00 and the last at 16:00 on the normal timetable.
- [Ishigaki to Hateruma](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ish-htr): Daiichi Koku flies Ishigaki to Hateruma in 30 minutes on selected dates (six in November 2026), and those flights give another way to the island besides the ferry.
- [Ishigaki to Yonaguni](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ish-ogn): RAC flies Ishigaki to Yonaguni three times a day each way in November 2026 in 30 minutes, on turboprops that JAL says may not have room for a bike box.
- [Ishigaki to Tarama](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ish-tra): Daiichi Koku flies Ishigaki to Tarama in 30 minutes on selected dates, five in November 2026 per Ishigaki Airport's timetable.
- [Ishigaki to Hateruma](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ishigaki-hateruma): Anei Kanko alone sails from Ishigaki to Hateruma, twice a day each way in winter 2026/27; the open-sea crossing takes 60–90 minutes for ¥4,990 one way and cancels often in winter north wind.
- [Ishigaki to Hatoma](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ishigaki-hatoma): Hatoma is reached by Anei Kanko and Yaeyama Kanko Ferry boats from Ishigaki in 45–75 minutes for ¥3,290 one way, twice a day with each company in winter 2026/27, and the sailings stop whenever the Uehara route is cancelled.
- [Ishigaki to Kohama](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ishigaki-kohama): Anei Kanko and Yaeyama Kanko Ferry run high-speed boats from Ishigaki to Kohama in 25–30 minutes for ¥1,720 one way, 10 departures a day between them in winter 2026/27.
- [Ishigaki to Kuroshima](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ishigaki-kuroshima): Anei Kanko and Yaeyama Kanko Ferry each run three high-speed boats a day from Ishigaki to Kuroshima in winter 2026/27, and the 25–30 minute crossing costs ¥1,850 one way.
- [Ishigaki to Ohara (Iriomote)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ishigaki-ohara): Anei Kanko and Yaeyama Kanko Ferry run high-speed boats from Ishigaki to Ohara on Iriomote's south-east coast in 40–45 minutes for ¥2,520 one way, nine departures a day between them in winter 2026/27, and Ohara keeps sailing when the north-coast Uehara route closes.
- [Ishigaki Port Ritou Terminal](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ishigaki-port): The Ishigaki Port Ritou Terminal in central Ishigaki is where Anei Kanko and Yaeyama Kanko Ferry run every high-speed boat to Taketomi, Kohama, Kuroshima, Iriomote, Hatoma and Hateruma, about 30 minutes by taxi or 30–40 minutes by bus from New Ishigaki Airport.
- [Ishigaki to Taketomi](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ishigaki-taketomi): Anei Kanko and Yaeyama Kanko Ferry run high-speed boats from Ishigaki to Taketomi in 10–15 minutes for ¥970 one way, 18 departures a day between them in winter 2026/27, and only Anei's boats load an unbagged bicycle.
- [Ishigaki to Uehara (Iriomote)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ishigaki-uehara): Anei Kanko and Yaeyama Kanko Ferry each run four high-speed boats a day from Ishigaki to Uehara on Iriomote's north coast in winter 2026/27; the 45–55 minute crossing costs ¥3,290 one way and cancels often in winter north wind, when both companies send passengers through Ohara by bus.
- [Ishigaki to Yonaguni](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ishigaki-yonaguni): Fukuyama Kaiun's Ferry Yonakuni sails between Ishigaki and Yonaguni twice a week each way in about 4 hours for ¥3,610, from Ishigaki on Mondays and Thursdays and from Yonaguni on Tuesdays and Fridays, and it carries a bicycle for ¥1,200 without a booking.
- [Japan Airlines (JAL)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/jal): Japan Airlines flies Tokyo Haneda and Osaka Itami to Naha itself and sells JTA and RAC flights within Okinawa through its own booking system, and it carries a bicycle free inside its 20 kg domestic allowance.
- [Jetstar Japan](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/jetstar): Jetstar Japan flies to Naha, its only Okinawa destination, and a bike costs a purchased checked-bag allowance plus a ¥2,500 oversized fee per flight when added in advance.
- [Japan Transocean Air (JTA)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/jta): Japan Transocean Air is the Naha-based JAL group airline that flies Boeing 737-800s from Naha to Ishigaki, Miyako and Kume-jima and from several mainland cities to Okinawa, and it carries a bicycle free inside JAL's 20 kg domestic allowance.
- [Kohama Port](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/kohama-port): Kohama Port is the harbour on Kohama-jima, 25–30 minutes from Ishigaki on Anei Kanko and Yaeyama Kanko Ferry boats, with 10 departures a day for Ishigaki between them in winter 2026/27.
- [Kagoshima to Yoron](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/koj-rnj): JAC flies Kagoshima to Yoron daily in about 1 hour 40 minutes, per the Yoron tourism association.
- [Kubura Port (Yonaguni)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/kubura-port): Kubura Port is Yonaguni's ferry harbour, where Fukuyama Kaiun's Ferry Yonakuni leaves for Ishigaki at 9:00 on Tuesdays and Fridays, about 7 minutes by car from Yonaguni Airport.
- [Kanegusuku Port (Kume-jima)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/kumejima-port): Kanegusuku Port is Kume-jima's ferry harbour, where Kume Shosen's ferries from Tomari Port in Naha arrive after 3 hours direct or 3 hours 30 minutes via Tonaki, and the Kumejima Ocean Jet high-speed boat from Naha Port lands in about 1 hour 32 minutes.
- [Kuroshima Port](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/kuroshima-port): Kuroshima Port is the harbour on Kuroshima, 25–30 minutes from Ishigaki, with six departures a day back to Ishigaki between Anei Kanko and Yaeyama Kanko Ferry in winter 2026/27.
- [Miyako to Ishigaki](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/mmy-ish): RAC flies twice a day and ANA once a day each way between Miyako and Ishigaki in November 2026, and the hop takes 30–35 minutes.
- [Miyako to Tarama](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/mmy-tra): RAC flies Miyako to Tarama in about 25 minutes, by the Miyakojima Tourism Association's figure, and Tarama Kaiun's ferry from Hirara takes 2 hours and carries bikes.
- [Motobu to Ie-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/motobu-ie): Ie Village's ferries cross from Motobu Port to Ie-jima in 30 minutes for ¥730 one way, four round trips a day on the normal timetable, and carry a bicycle for ¥600.
- [Motobu Port](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/motobu-port): Motobu Port on the Motobu peninsula is the departure point for Ie Village's 30-minute ferries to Ie-jima, four round trips a day, and a call for the A-Line and Marix Line ferries between Naha and Yoron.
- [Naha and Motobu to Yoron by ferry](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/naha-motobu-yoron): The A-Line and Marix Line ferries leave Naha at 7:00 and Motobu at 9:20 daily and reach Yoron at 11:50. From Naha the 4 hour 50 minute trip costs ¥4,290 in second class plus a ¥960 fuel adjustment (September 2026), and a bicycle rides as special baggage for ¥1,020.
- [Naha Port passenger terminal (Naha Futo)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/naha-port): The Naha Port passenger terminal in Tsudo-cho, about 10–15 minutes' walk from Asahibashi station, is where the A-Line and Marix Line ferries for Motobu, Yoron and Kagoshima leave at 7:00 each morning, and the Kumejima Ocean Jet sails for Kume-jima; it's a different harbour from Tomari Port.
- [Ohara Port (Iriomote)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ohara-port): Ohara Port on the south-east coast of Iriomote is 40–45 minutes from Ishigaki, sails more often than Uehara in north wind by Anei Kanko's account, and in winter it takes the Uehara passengers when the north-coast route is cancelled.
- [Ohara (Iriomote) to Taketomi](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ohara-taketomi): Anei Kanko's 14:00 from Ohara on Iriomote calls at Taketomi on its way to Ishigaki and gets there in 35–45 minutes for ¥2,320. No other sailing on either company's winter timetable links the two islands directly.
- [Naha Airport](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/oka): Naha Airport (OKA) sits 13 minutes by Yui Rail from Kencho-mae in central Naha, and its single passenger terminal handles domestic, inter-island and international flights, with expressway buses to Nago and the Churaumi Aquarium, the resort limousine and the rental-car shuttles all leaving from stops outside domestic arrivals.
- [Naha to Ishigaki](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/oka-ish): Naha to Ishigaki is a flight of about 1 hour with 14 departures a day from Naha in November 2026 on JTA, ANA and Solaseed Air, and all three carry a bike inside their free allowances.
- [Naha to Miyako](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/oka-mmy): Naha to Miyako is a flight of about 45 minutes on JTA, RAC or ANA, by the Miyakojima Tourism Association's figure, and Skymark flies Naha to Shimojishima, Miyako's second airport.
- [Naha to Yonaguni](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/oka-ogn): RAC flies Naha to Yonaguni twice a day each way, according to Yonaguni's tourism site in March 2026, and sells the flights through JAL.
- [Naha to Yoron](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/oka-rnj): RAC flies Naha to Yoron daily in about 40 minutes, by the Yoron tourism association's figure, and the daily A-Line or Marix Line ferry takes 4 hours 50 minutes with room for a bike.
- [Naha to Shimojishima (Miyako)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/oka-shi): Skymark flies Naha to Miyako's Shimojishima Airport twice a day each way in winter 2026/27 in 45–55 minutes, and it takes a bike box up to 280 cm long.
- [Naha to Kume-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/oka-ueo): JTA and RAC fly Naha to Kume-jima six or seven times a day in about 30 minutes, by the Kumejima Town Tourism Association's figures, and JAL adds a Haneda–Kume-jima service in summer.
- [Okinawa main-island route buses](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/okinawa-buses): Okinawa's main-island route buses are run by Ryukyu Bus Kotsu, Naha Bus, Okinawa Bus and Toyo Bus, with a ¥280 flat fare on Naha city routes and expressway buses from Naha Airport to Nago in about 1 hour 50 minutes (¥2,520) and to the Churaumi Aquarium in about 2 hours 27 minutes (¥2,880), at fares in force from 1 April 2026.
- [Peach Aviation](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/peach): Peach is the ANA group's low-cost airline flying to Naha and Ishigaki, and a bike box costs ¥2,000 as a checked bag on its Minimum fare plus a ¥1,900 size option online when it measures 204 cm or more.
- [Ryukyu Air Commuter (RAC)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/rac): Ryukyu Air Commuter is the JAL group's turboprop airline for Okinawa's small islands, flying to Yonaguni, Tarama, Yoron and between Miyako and Ishigaki, and it carries a bicycle inside JAL's 20 kg allowance with no guarantee that a long box fits.
- [Skymark Airlines](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/skymark): Skymark is the airline for Shimojishima, with two flights a day from Naha plus Haneda and Kobe in winter 2026/27, and it flies Haneda, Kobe, Fukuoka, Chubu and Ibaraki to Naha. It carries a bike box up to 280 cm long inside its 20 kg free allowance.
- [Solaseed Air](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/solaseed): Solaseed Air flies Naha–Ishigaki twice a day and links Naha with Haneda, Kobe, Kagoshima, Chubu, Fukuoka and Miyazaki, and it carries a bicycle free as one of two 23 kg pieces, with sports items accepted up to 292 cm.
- [Taketomi Port](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/taketomi-port): Taketomi Port is the harbour on Taketomi-jima, 10–15 minutes from Ishigaki with 18 departures a day from Ishigaki between Anei Kanko and Yaeyama Kanko Ferry in winter 2026/27.
- [Toguchi (Motobu) to Minna-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/toguchi-minna): Minna Kaiun's New Wing Minna II crosses from Toguchi Port in Motobu to Minna-jima in 15 minutes for ¥1,050 one way, three times a day each way from November to March.
- [Toguchi Port (Motobu)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/toguchi-port): Toguchi Port at Tancha 29 in Motobu town is where Minna Kaiun's boat leaves for Minna-jima, and the 15-minute crossing runs three times a day from November to March.
- [Tokashiki Port](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/tokashiki-port): Tokashiki Port is the village harbour on the east coast of Tokashiki-jima, where Tokashiki Village's Marine Liner (40 minutes) and Ferry Tokashiki (70 minutes) land from Naha's Tomari Port, and village buses run on to Aharen Beach.
- [Tomari Port to Aka](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/tomari-aka): Zamami Village's boats reach Aka-jima from Naha's Tomari Port in 50 minutes on the high-speed Queen Zamami 3 (¥3,950 one way) or 90 minutes on the car ferry Ferry Zamami 3 (¥2,900), and the ferry carries a bicycle as cargo for ¥430.
- [Naha to Kume-jima by sea](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/tomari-kume): Kume Shosen's ferries take 3 hours from Naha's Tomari Port to Kume-jima direct, or 3 hours 30 minutes via Tonaki, for ¥3,970 one way and ¥1,400 for a bicycle (fares from 1 October 2026), and the Kumejima Ocean Jet's Tsumugi does the run from Naha Port in about 1 hour 32 minutes.
- [Tomari Port (Tomarin)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/tomari-port): Tomari Port in Naha is the harbour for the Kerama and Kume-jima boats, and the village boats and Kume Shosen's ferries sell tickets in its Tomarin terminal building. Miebashi station on the Yui Rail is about a 15-minute walk away.
- [Tomari Port to Tokashiki](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/tomari-tokashiki): Tokashiki Village's high-speed Marine Liner Tokashiki crosses from Naha's Tomari Port to Tokashiki in 40 minutes for ¥3,300 one way, and the car ferry Ferry Tokashiki takes 70 minutes for ¥2,200 and carries an unbagged bicycle for ¥330 (fares from 1 October 2026).
- [Tomari Port to Zamami](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/tomari-zamami): Zamami Village's high-speed Queen Zamami 3 runs from Naha's Tomari Port to Zamami-jima in 50 minutes for ¥3,950 one way, and its car ferry Ferry Zamami 3 takes 90 minutes to two hours for ¥2,900 and carries a bicycle as cargo for ¥430.
- [Uehara Port (Iriomote)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/uehara-port): Uehara Port on Iriomote's north coast is 45–55 minutes from Ishigaki, and in winter north wind its boats cancel often and divert passengers through Ohara.
- [Kobe to Shimojishima](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/ukb-shi): Skymark flies Kobe to Shimojishima once a day in winter 2026/27; the flight leaves Kobe at 10:40 and lands at 13:15.
- [Unten to Iheya-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/unten-iheya): Iheya Village's Ferry Iheya 3 sails from Unten Port in Nakijin to Iheya-jima in 80 minutes, twice a day, for ¥2,480 one way plus a ¥100 village tax, and carries a bicycle for ¥1,030.
- [Unten to Izena-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/unten-izena): Izena Village's Ferry Izena Shoen sails from Unten Port in Nakijin to Izena-jima in about 55 minutes, twice a day, for ¥1,840 one way plus a ¥100 village tax, and carries a bicycle for ¥710.
- [Unten Port](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/unten-port): Unten Port in Nakijin is the departure point for the village ferries to Iheya-jima (80 minutes) and Izena-jima (55 minutes), each twice a day, and Iheya Village notes that the port has no car park.
- [Yoron Port](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/yoron-port): Yoron Port is the harbour on Yoron-jima in Kagoshima Prefecture, where the daily A-Line or Marix Line ferry from Naha (4 hours 50 minutes) and Motobu (2 hours 30 minutes) arrives at 11:50 and the southbound boat leaves for Okinawa at 14:10.
- [Yui Rail (Okinawa Urban Monorail)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/yui-rail): Yui Rail is Naha's 17 km monorail, running all 19 stations from Naha Airport to Tedako-Uranishi in Urasoe in 37 minutes, with adult fares of ¥250 to ¥390, trains from Naha Airport between 6:00 and 23:30, and Suica-family IC cards and contactless credit cards accepted at all 19 stations.
- [Zamami to Aka (village boat Mitsushima)](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/zamami-aka): The Mitsushima is Zamami Village's own boat between Zamami and Aka; it crosses in 15 minutes four times a day for ¥500, and on request it runs on to Aharen on Tokashiki in 35 minutes for ¥1,100.
- [Zamami Port](https://rideokinawa.com/getting-around/zamami-port): Zamami Port is the harbour in Zamami village, where Zamami Village's Queen Zamami 3 (50 minutes) and Ferry Zamami 3 (about two hours) arrive from Naha and the village boat Mitsushima leaves for Aka four times a day.

## Places to stay
- [Abyan Yonaguni Guesthouse Kubura](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/abyan-guesthouse-kubura): Abyan Yonaguni Guesthouse Kubura is a nine-room, room-only guesthouse in Kubura at Yonaguni's western end, with a shared kitchen and a free shower after check-out.
- [Ada Garden Hotel Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/ada-garden-hotel-okinawa): Ada Garden Hotel Okinawa is a 28-room Asian-style resort hotel at Ada in Kunigami, which it bills as the northernmost resort on Okinawa, set in the Yanbaru World Heritage forest where the Okinawa woodpecker and Okinawa robin live, about two and a half hours by car from Naha Airport.
- [AJ Resort Island Ikeijima](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/aj-resort-island-ikeijima): AJ Resort Island Ikeijima is a 58-room hot-spring resort at the far end of the Kaichu Doro road on Ikei-jima in Uruma, with the Kuroshio no Yu natural onsen, rental bicycles and February 2027 nights from ¥12,000 for two.
- [AKA LODGE by The Terrace Hotels](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/aka-lodge): AKA LODGE by The Terrace Hotels is a 12-room small-luxury hotel on Aka that opened on 15 June 2026 and operates from March to November, so it is closed in February.
- [ANA InterContinental Ishigaki Resort](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/ana-intercontinental-ishigaki-resort): ANA InterContinental Ishigaki Resort is a 458-room beach resort on Maezato Beach, 20 minutes from Ishigaki airport, with an indoor pool and February 2027 rooms from ¥50,250 for two with breakfast.
- [ANA InterContinental Manza Beach Resort](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/ana-intercontinental-manza): ANA InterContinental Manza Beach Resort is a 400-room resort on the Manza peninsula in Onna facing Cape Manzamo, with its own sheltered beach, rental bicycles and a garden pool that runs most of the year apart from a winter maintenance break.
- [Arcade Resort Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/arcade-resort-okinawa): Arcade Resort Okinawa is a budget guesthouse built into a renovated shopping arcade in Koza, Okinawa City, three minutes' walk from the Music Town Oto-ichiba live venue, with bunk rooms and small Japanese-style rooms and no parking.
- [BATON SUITE Okinawa Kourijima](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/baton-suite-kouri): BATON SUITE Okinawa Kourijima is a 35-suite resort on Kouri-jima that opened on 27 March 2025, with every room an ocean-view suite and villa suites that have a private sauna and jacuzzi, about 90 minutes by car from Naha Airport.
- [BEB5 Okinawa Seragaki by Hoshino Resorts](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/beb5-okinawa-seragaki): BEB5 Okinawa Seragaki by Hoshino Resorts is a 105-room casual hotel in Onna where every room has a kitchen and a washer-dryer, with a heated outdoor pool and sauna open all year, about 60 minutes by expressway from Naha Airport.
- [Canopy by Hilton Okinawa Miyako Island Resort](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/canopy-by-hilton-okinawa-miyako): Canopy by Hilton Okinawa Miyako Island Resort opened in April 2026 next to the Hilton at Kugai, with a rooftop infinity pool and February 2027 rooms from ¥30,656 for two.
- [Club Med Ishigaki Kabira](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/club-med-ishigaki-kabira): Club Med Ishigaki Kabira is a 181-room all-inclusive resort on the beach at Kabira Ishizaki, 40 minutes from Ishigaki airport.
- [Crystal Villa Ikema](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/crystal-villa-ikema): Crystal Villa Ikema is a three-room villa on Ikema looking over the sea north of Miyako, with barbecue-dinner stays from ¥62,000 for two in February 2027.
- [Cypress Resort Kumejima](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/cypress-resort-kumejima): Cypress Resort Kumejima is an 84-room hotel on Kume's west coast where every room faces the sea, and February 2027 rooms started at ¥11,500 for two without meals.
- [DoubleTree by Hilton Naha Shuri Castle](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/doubletree-naha-shuri-castle): DoubleTree by Hilton Naha Shuri Castle is a 332-room hotel on the Shuri hill, 13 minutes' walk from Shureimon gate, suited to families and anyone visiting the castle, and its big garden pool is seasonal.
- [DoubleTree by Hilton Okinawa Chatan Resort](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/doubletree-okinawa-chatan-resort): DoubleTree by Hilton Okinawa Chatan Resort is a 160-room beach hotel beside the Hilton at Mihama in Chatan within walking distance of American Village, and its two outdoor pools open in summer only.
- [Eco Village Iriomote](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/eco-village-iriomote): Eco Village Iriomote is a Bali-style resort with a private beach at Takana on Iriomote's north-east coast, with February 2027 rooms from ¥14,800 for two with breakfast.
- [EN RESORT Kumejima Eef Beach Hotel](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/en-resort-kumejima-eef-beach-hotel): EN RESORT Kumejima Eef Beach Hotel is an 80-room hotel on the sand at Eef Beach that was renovated in 2023, with February 2027 rooms from ¥16,000 for two including breakfast.
- [Ends Marina Inn Zamami](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/ends-marina-inn-zamami): Ends Marina Inn Zamami is a six-room condominium six minutes' walk from Zamami port, where each room sleeps four in bunks and has its own mini kitchen.
- [Ernesto Zanpa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/ernesto-zanpa): Ernesto Zanpa is a three-storey whole-house rental near Cape Zanpa in Yomitan, furnished in American vintage style with antiques over a century old, sleeping up to seven, with paid e-bike rental and free parking.
- [Fusaki Beach Resort Hotel & Villas](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/fusaki-beach-resort-hotel-villas): Fusaki Beach Resort Hotel & Villas is a 398-room resort of red-tile cottages on Ishigaki's west coast, with an indoor pool and a free airport shuttle.
- [Shima-yado Ganjuya](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/ganjuya-taketomi): Shima-yado Ganjuya rents two traditional red-tile cottages on Taketomi, each with an open-air bath in its garden, and lends free bicycles to every guest.
- [Glamday Style Hotel & Resort Okinawa Yomitan](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/glamday-style-yomitan): Glamday Style Hotel & Resort Okinawa Yomitan is a 54-room adults-leaning resort at Senaha in Yomitan with an infinity pool heated all year, prix-fixe Ryukyu dinners and a club lounge.
- [Guest House Yun Terrace](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/guest-house-yun-terrace): Guest House Yun Terrace is a six-room guesthouse in Tonoshiro in Ishigaki city, with a rooftop that looks over the sea and rooms from ¥5,400 for two.
- [Guesthouse BASE okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/guesthouse-base-okinawa): Guesthouse BASE okinawa is a small Naha guesthouse in Wakasa with single-sex dorms and private rooms, a minute's walk from Naminoue Beach, with rental bicycles and February 2027 beds from ¥5,600 for two.
- [Guesthouse Chikyujin no Kyukeijo](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/guesthouse-chikyujin-no-kyukeijo): Guesthouse Chikyujin no Kyukeijo is a three-room guesthouse at Fukuzato in Gusukube, run by a local Miyako couple, with February 2027 twins at ¥7,000 for two.
- [Haimurubushi](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/haimurubushi): Haimurubushi is a 156-room beach resort on Kohama that reopened after renovation on 15 July 2025, and its February 2027 plans included a rental cart from ¥39,000 for two.
- [Halekulani Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/halekulani-okinawa): Halekulani Okinawa is a 360-room luxury resort on the Onna coast in the Okinawa Kaigan Quasi-National Park, every room with an ocean view, and in February its indoor pool with hot-spring water is the one open, since the Orchid Pool reopens on 1 March.
- [Hanalee Villa Kouri](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hanalee-villa-kouri): Hanalee Villa Kouri is a three-villa stay on Kouri-jima with sea-view terraces, breakfast served in the garden or on the café rooftop, and sunsets mirrored in a water basin, about 100 minutes by car from Naha Airport.
- [Hanamuro Inn](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hanamuro-inn): Hanamuro Inn is a six-room pension two to three minutes' walk from Aka port that rents bicycles to guests and takes children from age five.
- [Shima no Oyado Hatake no Mae](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hatake-no-mae-hateruma): Shima no Oyado Hatake no Mae is a six-room, room-only inn on Hateruma, five minutes from the port, that rents e-bikes at ¥1,500 until the next morning.
- [Hilton Okinawa Chatan Resort](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hilton-okinawa-chatan-resort): Hilton Okinawa Chatan Resort is a 346-room beachfront resort at Mihama in Chatan, walking distance from American Village and about 40 minutes by car from Naha Airport, with a free indoor pool for winter swimming.
- [Hilton Okinawa Miyako Island Resort](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hilton-okinawa-miyako-island-resort): Hilton Okinawa Miyako Island Resort is a 329-room beach resort at Kugai, 15 minutes from Miyako Airport, with an indoor pool for winter and February 2027 rates from ¥41,260 for two with breakfast.
- [Hilton Okinawa Sesoko Resort](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hilton-okinawa-sesoko): Hilton Okinawa Sesoko Resort is a 298-room resort on Sesoko Beach, on the island bridged to Motobu, about 90 minutes by car from Naha Airport, with an indoor pool for winter, rental bicycles and a direct airport bus.
- [Hoshinoya Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hoshinoya-okinawa): Hoshinoya Okinawa is a 100-room luxury hotel by Hoshino Resorts on 1 km of natural coast at Gima in Yomitan, behind its own gusuku-style wall, with a cliff-edge pool kept warm and open 24 hours all year.
- [HOSHINOYA Taketomi Island](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hoshinoya-taketomi-island): HOSHINOYA Taketomi Island is a 48-cottage resort on Taketomi with a heated 46 m pool open all year, round the clock, and a free shuttle to the village and beaches.
- [Hoshizunaso](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hoshizunaso-yoron): Hoshizunaso is a 16-room minshuku on Yoron's east side, about ten minutes by bicycle from Yurigahama, with February 2027 rooms from ¥9,890 for two.
- [Hotel Anteroom Naha](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-anteroom-naha): Hotel Anteroom Naha is an art-and-culture design hotel by UDS at Maejima on the Tomari harbour, where every room has a harbour view and artists designed several concept rooms, about 15 minutes by car from Naha Airport.
- [Hotel Collective](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-collective): Hotel Collective is a 260-room upscale hotel fronting Kokusai-dori in central Naha, with every room 30 square metres or larger, and its fourth-floor 25-metre pool runs only from April to November.
- [Hotel East China Sea](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-east-china-sea): Hotel East China Sea is a 79-room harbour hotel four minutes' walk from Ishigaki's outer-island ferry terminal, with February 2027 rooms from ¥9,814 for two.
- [Hotel Garden Hills](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-garden-hills-kumejima): Hotel Garden Hills is a 50-room hotel in Kanegusuku, three minutes' walk from Kume's ferry port, with rooms from ¥10,100 for two.
- [Hotel Gran View Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-gran-view-okinawa): Hotel Gran View Okinawa is a 126-room budget hotel beside Akamine Station, which is one Yui Rail stop and about four minutes from Naha Airport, with breakfast from 5:45 for early flights and February 2027 rooms from ¥8,000 for two.
- [Hotel Hamahigashima Resort](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-hamahigashima-resort): Hotel Hamahigashima Resort is a 26-room hotel on Hamahiga-jima in Uruma with its own stairs down to Muruku beach, reached by road over Kaichu Doro, about 70 minutes by car from Naha Airport.
- [Hotel Hoshidate Iriomotejima](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-hoshidate-iriomote): Hotel Hoshidate Iriomotejima is a 20-room hotel five seconds from its own beach on Iriomote's west coast, with free breakfast and February 2027 rooms from ¥25,960 for two.
- [Hotel Kanaloa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-kanaloa): Hotel Kanaloa is a 28-room hotel that opened in April 2024 five minutes' walk from Tokashiki port, with free shuttles to Aharen and Tokashiku beaches.
- [Hotel Locus](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-locus-miyako): Hotel Locus is a 100-room design hotel that opened on the Hirara waterfront in 2018, with harbour views from every room and February 2027 rooms from ¥12,800 for two.
- [Hotel Mahaina Wellness Resort Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-mahaina-okinawa): Hotel Mahaina Wellness Resort Okinawa is a 230-room family hotel in Motobu about five minutes by car from Churaumi Aquarium and Emerald Beach, with an indoor pool open all year, a large bath and rental bicycles.
- [Hotel Nikko Alivila](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-nikko-alivila): Hotel Nikko Alivila is a 397-room resort on Nirai Beach in Yomitan, opened in 1994, that rents electric-assist bikes in two sizes and has a paid indoor relaxation pool for winter.
- [Hotel Patina Ishigakijima](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-patina-ishigakijima): Hotel Patina Ishigakijima is a 23-room small hotel in Yashima-cho, eight minutes' walk along the seafront from Ishigaki's outer-island ferry terminal, with rooms from ¥11,100 for two.
- [Hotel Peace Island Miyakojima Shiyakusho-dori](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-peace-island-miyako-shiyakusho): Hotel Peace Island Miyakojima Shiyakusho-dori is a 98-room Hirara hotel where every room has a washer-dryer and a microwave, with a free large bath and divers' lockers.
- [Hotel Peace Island Taketomijima](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-peace-island-taketomi): Hotel Peace Island Taketomijima is a 20-room cottage hotel near Nishi-sanbashi pier on Taketomi, with February 2027 rooms from ¥30,000 for two with breakfast.
- [Hotel Shigira Mirage](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-shigira-mirage): Hotel Shigira Mirage is the top tier of the Shigira resort at Ueno on Miyako, and its Pool Villa Premier rooms have private pools heated from November to March.
- [Hotel Shigira Mirage Beachfront](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-shigira-mirage-beachfront): Hotel Shigira Mirage Beachfront is a 93-room hotel on the beach at the Shigira resort on Miyako, with an outdoor pool heated for year-round swimming.
- [Hotel Strata Naha](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-strata-naha): Hotel Strata Naha is a 214-room design hotel by UDS thirty seconds' walk from Yui Rail Miebashi Station, filled with Okinawan crafts and art, and its courtyard pool opens only from April to October.
- [Hotel Yugaf Inn Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hotel-yugaf-inn-okinawa): Hotel Yugaf Inn Okinawa is a 121-room city hotel in central Nago, three minutes' walk from the beach and ten from Nago Bus Terminal, with free rental bicycles from 7:00 to 19:00 and a free coworking lounge.
- [Hyakuna Garan](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hyakuna-garan): Hyakuna Garan is a 16-room luxury hotel on the Hyakuna shore in Nanjo, holder of one Michelin Key for three years running, where every room faces the sea and February 2027 nights cost ¥121,000 for two on Jalan.
- [Hyatt Regency Naha Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hyatt-regency-naha): Hyatt Regency Naha Okinawa is a 294-room upscale hotel in Makishi, three minutes' walk from Kokusai-dori, and its outdoor pool is closed from December through February.
- [Hyatt Regency Seragaki Island Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/hyatt-regency-seragaki-island): Hyatt Regency Seragaki Island Okinawa is a 343-room resort on Seragaki-jima in Onna, which a single bridge joins to the main island, with an indoor pool open 8:00–21:00 all year and Japan's first Camp Hyatt programme for children.
- [ILUVIO Resort Motobu](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/iluvio-resort-motobu): ILUVIO Resort Motobu is a single luxury villa at Gushiken on the Motobu peninsula, with an infinity pool heated to about 25–30 °C from November to June and a sauna with a standing cold plunge, about 105 minutes by car from Naha Airport.
- [Iraph SUI, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Okinawa Miyako](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/iraph-sui-luxury-collection-miyako): Iraph SUI, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Okinawa Miyako is a 58-room hotel on Irabu, ten minutes from Shimojishima Airport, and its pool is closed from December to February.
- [Iriomote Hotel by Hoshino Resorts](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/iriomote-hotel-by-hoshino-resorts): Iriomote Hotel by Hoshino Resorts is the largest resort on Iriomote, with 139 twins of 42 m² ten minutes from Uehara port.
- [Ishigaki Seaside Hotel](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/ishigaki-seaside-hotel): Ishigaki Seaside Hotel is a 108-room hotel by the beach at Kabira, 30 minutes from Ishigaki airport, with bicycle rental and February 2027 rooms from ¥17,390 for two with breakfast.
- [Island Hotel Yonaguni](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/island-hotel-yonaguni): Island Hotel Yonaguni is a 61-room, room-only hotel five minutes from Yonaguni airport, with self check-in and February 2027 twins from ¥20,500 for two.
- [Jo-ya](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/jo-ya-kabira): Jo-ya is an 11-room inn two minutes' walk from Kabira Bay that serves dinner and has a rooftop for stargazing.
- [Iriomote Jungle Hotel Painumaya](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/jungle-hotel-painumaya): Iriomote Jungle Hotel Painumaya is a 30-room hotel deep in the forest at Takana on Iriomote, with no houses or shops nearby and February 2027 rooms from ¥16,200 for two with breakfast.
- [JUSANDI](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/jusandi-ishigaki): JUSANDI is a five-villa retreat with a private beach at Fukai on Ishigaki's north coast, and it received a Michelin Key in 2024.
- [Kanucha Bay Hotel & Villas](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/kanucha-bay-hotel): Kanucha Bay Hotel & Villas is a large golf and beach resort at Abu on Nago's east coast, with eight lodging buildings, a paid indoor pool open in every season and rental bicycles for the quiet roads toward Yanbaru.
- [Kerama Terrace](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/kerama-terrace): Kerama Terrace is a seven-room hotel two minutes' walk from Aharen Beach on Tokashiki, and every plan includes dinner and breakfast.
- [Miyakojima Kurima Resort Seawood Hotel](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/kurima-resort-seawood-hotel): Miyakojima Kurima Resort Seawood Hotel is a 169-room resort on Kurima with pool villas and a planetarium dome, and its main pool is closed from December to mid-March.
- [Lequ Okinawa Chatan Spa & Resort](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/lequ-okinawa-chatan): Lequ Okinawa Chatan Spa & Resort is a 277-room Vessel Hotels resort on the Mihama waterfront in Chatan with its own Chatan Onsen and an eighth-floor infinity pool, which publishes no opening hours from 1 February to 19 March.
- [Little Mermaid Village](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/little-mermaid-village): Little Mermaid Village is a four-unit glamping site in Asa on Zamami, where February 2027 stays started at ¥17,000 for two without meals.
- [Marine House IE Island](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/marine-house-ie-island): Marine House IE Island is an 11-room bed and breakfast on Ie-jima, under five minutes' walk from Ie Beach and six or seven minutes by taxi from Ie port, with rental bicycles and a drying room, a 30-minute ferry from Motobu.
- [Minshuku Ah-chan](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/minshuku-ah-chan-kuroshima): Minshuku Ah-chan is an 11-room minshuku on Kuroshima that lends free bicycles and runs the fishing boat Mare-maru.
- [Minshuku Amimoto](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/minshuku-amimoto): Minshuku Amimoto is a 12-room minshuku on Ou-jima, three minutes' walk from the Tatami-ishi rock shelf, and it lends bicycles for the causeway ride to Kume.
- [Minshuku Kohama-so](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/minshuku-kohamaso-taketomi): Minshuku Kohama-so is an eight-room family minshuku in Taketomi's preserved village that has run since 1965, and awamori comes free with the owner's dinner.
- [Minshuku Maruyoshi](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/minshuku-maruyoshi): Minshuku Maruyoshi is an eight-room minshuku by the Irabu post office whose canteen made a list of 100 places to eat in Kyushu and Okinawa.
- [Minshuku Myojoso](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/minshuku-myojoso): Minshuku Myojoso is an 11-room family minshuku at Mugiya on Yoron, near Oganeku and Akasaki beaches, and it rents six-speed bicycles.
- [Minshuku Robinson](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/minshuku-robinson): Minshuku Robinson is a 14-room minshuku in the quiet village of Ama on Zamami, about 20 minutes' walk from the port and within five minutes of the beach.
- [Miyakojima Tokyu Hotel & Resorts](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/miyakojima-tokyu-hotel-resorts): Miyakojima Tokyu Hotel & Resorts is a 247-room resort on Yonaha Maehama Beach, ten minutes from Miyako Airport, with February 2027 rooms from ¥47,344 for two with breakfast.
- [Mizu to Kaze](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/mizu-to-kaze): Mizu to Kaze is a single-unit sauna retreat at Torishima on Kume, eight minutes by car from the airport, with February 2027 stays from ¥79,300 for two.
- [Yonaguni Munbu Stay Nanta-hama](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/munbu-stay-nanta-hama): Yonaguni Munbu Stay Nanta-hama is a 12-room hotel in Sonai that opened in April 2025 near Nanta Beach, with February 2027 twins from ¥26,200 for two.
- [Nankurunaisa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/nankurunaisa-kumejima): Nankurunaisa is a nine-room inn at Hiyajo near Eef Beach on Kume, with February 2027 rooms from ¥11,600 for two without meals.
- [Nest Hotel Naha Kumoji](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/nest-hotel-naha-kumoji): Nest Hotel Naha Kumoji is a 120-room mid-range hotel five minutes' walk from Yui Rail Miebashi Station, with wood-toned rooms of 18 to 30 square metres and a breakfast guests rate highly, and it has no pool.
- [Nitta-so](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/nitta-so): Nitta-so is a seven-room family minshuku in Taketomi village that charged ¥8,500 per person with two meals in 2026 and cooks dinner from its own garden.
- [Okinawa Hotel](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/okinawa-hotel): Okinawa Hotel is a 59-room classic hotel in Naha's Daido district that opened in 1941 as Okinawa's first tourist hotel, six minutes' walk from Sakaemachi market, with paid rental bicycles and no pool.
- [Okinawa Kariyushi Beach Resort Ocean Spa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/okinawa-kariyushi-ocean-spa): Okinawa Kariyushi Beach Resort Ocean Spa is a 500-room family resort on an 80,000-tsubo site on the Onna hillside, with indoor and outdoor pools, the Umi no Yu spa and February 2027 nights from ¥17,920 for two.
- [Okinawa Prince Hotel Ocean View Ginowan](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/okinawa-prince-hotel-ginowan): Okinawa Prince Hotel Ocean View Ginowan is a 340-room hotel on the Ginowan coast, about 30 minutes by car from Naha Airport, with two infinity pools and a free indoor pool and spa floor, and it ran an e-bike cycling rally in spring 2026.
- [Okuma Private Beach & Resort](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/okuma-private-beach-resort): Okuma Private Beach & Resort is a resort on Okuma Beach in Kunigami, which is one of the few natural white-sand beaches on the main island, inside the Yanbaru World Natural Heritage area, with a free daily shuttle from Naha, rental bicycles and pools closed from November to February.
- [Okuyanbaru no Sato](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/okuyanbaru-no-sato): Okuyanbaru no Sato is a cluster of cottages built in the style of old Okinawan houses in Oku village near the northern tip of the main island, about ten minutes by car from Cape Hedo, with a dining hall, a folk-tools museum and February 2027 nights from ¥12,920 for two.
- [OMO5 Okinawa Naha by Hoshino Resorts](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/omo5-okinawa-naha): OMO5 Okinawa Naha by Hoshino Resorts is a 190-room casual hotel in Matsuyama, six minutes' walk from Yui Rail Kenchomae Station, with paid share-cycles and parcel acceptance from the day before arrival.
- [Oriental Hotel Okinawa Resort & Spa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/oriental-hotel-okinawa): Oriental Hotel Okinawa Resort & Spa is the former Okinawa Marriott at Kise in Nago and an official Junglia Okinawa partner hotel, with an indoor pool open all year and e-bikes at the door from ¥1,500 an hour.
- [Orion Hotel Motobu Resort & Spa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/orion-hotel-motobu): Orion Hotel Motobu Resort & Spa is a 238-room resort at Bise in Motobu next to Ocean Expo Park and Churaumi Aquarium, with an indoor pool open all year and Spa Ryusui, opened in September 2025, and it bans visible tattoos of every size.
- [Pension Cha Villa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/pension-cha-villa): Pension Cha Villa is an eight-room pension one minute's walk from Zamami port, and its Japanese rooms each have a small kitchen corner.
- [Pension Sea Friend](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/pension-sea-friend): Pension Sea Friend sits a minute's walk from Aharen Beach on Tokashiki and runs its own dive service, with a February 2027 winter plan from ¥13,200 for two including breakfast.
- [Pricia Resort Yoron](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/pricia-resort-yoron): Pricia Resort Yoron is a 93-room beach resort three minutes by car from Yoron airport, and it rents bicycles and e-bikes for riding round the island.
- [Renaissance Okinawa Resort](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/renaissance-okinawa-resort): Renaissance Okinawa Resort is a 357-room beach resort at Yamada in southern Onna known for its dolphin encounters and marine activities, with indoor and outdoor pools and thalassotherapy at the spa.
- [Riad Lamp](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/riad-lamp): Riad Lamp is a five-room adults' hideaway in Chinen, Nanjo, built as a Moroccan riad with lamps, building materials and furniture brought from Morocco, about 40 minutes by car from Naha Airport, with a small outdoor pool.
- [Rihga Royal Gran Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/rihga-royal-gran-okinawa): Rihga Royal Gran Okinawa is a 157-room upscale hotel on floors 6 to 13 above Naha Bus Terminal, connected to Yui Rail Asahibashi Station, with every room 35 square metres or larger, and it has no pool.
- [RISONARE Kohamajima](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/risonare-kohamajima): RISONARE Kohamajima is a 60-suite Hoshino Resorts beach resort on Kohama, ten minutes by shuttle from the port, with Japan's south-westernmost golf course next door.
- [The Ritz-Carlton, Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/ritz-carlton-okinawa): The Ritz-Carlton, Okinawa is a 97-room luxury golf and spa hotel at Kise in Nago, set on the Kanehide Kise Country Club course near Kise Beach, about 75 minutes by car from Naha Airport, with indoor and outdoor pools and bikes for ¥1,500.
- [Rizzan Sea-Park Hotel Tancha-Bay](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/rizzan-sea-park-tancha-bay): Rizzan Sea-Park Hotel Tancha-Bay is an 825-room family resort on its own natural beach at Tancha in Onna, about 70 minutes by car from Naha Airport, with a heated indoor pool for winter.
- [Ryukyu Hotel & Resort Nashiro Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/ryukyu-hotel-nashiro-beach): Ryukyu Hotel & Resort Nashiro Beach is a 443-room resort on Itoman's Nashiro beach that opened in July 2022, with an outdoor pool heated in winter and e-bikes for hire from ¥500 an hour.
- [Ryukyu Onsen Senagajima Hotel](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/ryukyu-onsen-senagajima-hotel): Ryukyu Onsen Senagajima Hotel is a 100-room hot-spring hotel on Senaga-jima, about 15 minutes by car from Naha Airport, where the Ryujin no Yu standing bath looks straight at the second runway, and its infinity pool is seasonal.
- [seven x seven Ishigaki](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/seven-x-seven-ishigaki): seven x seven Ishigaki is a 121-room design hotel near Maezato Beach that opened on 9 September 2024, 18 minutes from Ishigaki airport.
- [Sheraton Okinawa Sunmarina Resort](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/sheraton-okinawa-sunmarina): Sheraton Okinawa Sunmarina Resort is a 228-room beach resort at Fuchaku in Onna with the Mega Zip line, a paid indoor pool for winter and an outdoor garden pool open from late March to October.
- [Shigira Bayside Suite Allamanda](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/shigira-bayside-suite-allamanda): Shigira Bayside Suite Allamanda is an all-suite, 174-room hotel inside the Shigira resort at Ueno on Miyako's south coast, where some private pools are heated in winter.
- [Shimojishima Coral Hotel](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/shimojishima-coral-hotel): Shimojishima Coral Hotel is a 16-room hotel on Shimoji, in a renovated former ANA staff lodge, with bicycle rental and rooms from ¥9,900 for two.
- [Minamijujisei Resort Ishigakijima Shiraho Nostalgie Garden](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/shiraho-nostalgie-garden): Shiraho Nostalgie Garden is a private villa for up to seven in Shiraho village, five minutes from Ishigaki airport, with February 2027 stays from ¥28,000 for two.
- [Smile Hotel Miyakojima](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/smile-hotel-miyakojima): Smile Hotel Miyakojima is a 135-room budget hotel in central Hirara, 12 minutes from Miyako Airport, with February 2027 rooms from ¥10,032 for two.
- [soraniwa hotel](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/soraniwa-hotel-irabu): soraniwa hotel is a five-room hotel and café on Irabu, ten minutes from Shimojishima Airport, where February 2027 ocean-view rooms started at ¥22,000 for two.
- [Southern Beach Hotel & Resort Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/southern-beach-hotel-okinawa): Southern Beach Hotel & Resort Okinawa is a 448-room family resort in Itoman's Nishizaki district within a minute's walk of Mibi Beach Itoman and about 20 minutes from Naha Airport, with an indoor pool open year-round.
- [St. Maire Yoron](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/st-maire-yoron): St. Maire Yoron is a single private villa with its own pool above the sea at Akasaki on Yoron, priced at ¥270,000 a night in February 2027.
- [Takana Ryokan](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/takana-ryokan): Takana Ryokan is a long-running inn opposite the post office in Taketomi's red-tile village, and Jalan reviewers rate its island dinners 4.6 out of 5.
- [The Beach Tower Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/the-beach-tower-okinawa): The Beach Tower Okinawa is a 280-room tower hotel on Sunset Beach in Chatan, which it calls the tallest hotel on Okinawa, with a natural hot spring and a hot-spring pool open all year next door at Terme Villa Chura-yu.
- [The Busena Terrace](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/the-busena-terrace): The Busena Terrace is a resort on the Busena peninsula in Nago with a 760-metre beach you can swim from all year, an indoor pool open in every season and butler service, and its outdoor pools run only from April to November.
- [The Moon Beach Museum Resort](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/the-moon-beach-museum-resort): The Moon Beach Museum Resort is the new name of Hotel Moon Beach, which opened in 1975 around the crescent of natural sand at Moon Beach in Onna, and guests swim free in its indoor pool and beach lagoon pool.
- [The Naha Terrace](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/the-naha-terrace): The Naha Terrace is a 145-room hotel from the Busena Terrace group in Naha's Omoromachi district, suited to a calm city stay with butler service, and its outdoor pool closes from December to March.
- [The Rescape](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/the-rescape-miyako): The Rescape is a 38-room hideaway on Miyako's east coast at Nagama, Gusukube, where every room has a private pool and February 2027 rates came with the pools unheated.
- [The Terrace Club Wellness Thalasso at Busena](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/the-terrace-club-at-busena): The Terrace Club Wellness Thalasso at Busena is a thalassotherapy hotel for guests aged 13 and over on the Busena cape in Nago that belongs to Small Luxury Hotels of the World, and its seawater thalasso pool stays at 33 °C and 36 °C all year.
- [The Uza Terrace Beach Club Villas](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/the-uza-terrace): The Uza Terrace Beach Club Villas is a 48-villa luxury resort by the Busena Terrace group at Uza in Yomitan, where every villa has a private pool and the heated ones run from 1 October to 15 May, so ask for one in February.
- [Tokashiku Marine Village](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/tokashiku-marine-village): Tokashiku Marine Village is a 50-room hotel on the sand at Tokashiku Beach on Tokashiki, ten minutes by shuttle bus from the ferry port.
- [Toyoko Inn Naha Kokusai-dori Miebashi-eki](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/toyoko-inn-naha-miebashi): Toyoko Inn Naha Kokusai-dori Miebashi-eki is a 94-room budget business hotel one minute from Yui Rail Miebashi Station and ten minutes' walk from Tomari port, with free breakfast and no frills.
- [Tripshot Hotels Okinawa Koza](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/tripshot-hotels-okinawa-koza): Tripshot Hotels Okinawa Koza turns former cabarets and shops in Okinawa City's Koza district into two design units, called Rock and Yard, for a night inside the town's music and base-town history, at ¥31,450 for two on sampled February 2027 nights.
- [Higashi Village Tsutsuji Eco Park](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/tsutsuji-eco-park): Higashi Village Tsutsuji Eco Park is a village-run nature park at Taira in Higashi with cottages for up to eight, bungalows and a campsite on grounds about the size of five Tokyo Domes, near the prefecture's biggest dam lake and its nature-watching boat.
- [Vessel Hotel Campana Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/vessel-hotel-campana-okinawa): Vessel Hotel Campana Okinawa is a 324-room hotel inside Chatan's American Village facing Sunset Beach, with free parking, rental bicycles and a sauna bath open all year, and its rooftop pool runs only from late March to October.
- [Vessel Hotel Ishigakijima](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/vessel-hotel-ishigakijima): Vessel Hotel Ishigakijima is a 126-room hotel in Hamasaki-cho, eight minutes' walk from the Ishigaki outer-island ferry terminal, with rental bicycles and February 2027 rooms from ¥14,356 for two.
- [WASSA WASSA](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/wassa-wassa): WASSA WASSA is a three-room inn at Nerome in Ogimi between the Yanbaru forest and the East China Sea, with sea-view rooms and seafood or Agu pork dinner courses, about 1 hour 40 minutes by car from Naha Airport.
- [Watermark Hotel Okinawa Kume Island](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/watermark-hotel-okinawa-kume-island): Watermark Hotel Okinawa Kume Island is Kume's largest hotel, with 142 rooms a minute's walk from Eef Beach, and it took its new name in June 2025.
- [Yanbaru Experience Hotel Nunganiku](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/yanbaru-experience-hotel-nunganiku): Yanbaru Experience Hotel Nunganiku is a 20-room budget base for outdoor trips at Kawata in Higashi village, seven minutes' walk from Michi-no-Eki Sunrise Higashi, with canoe tours and fire-pit evenings under the stars and February 2027 rooms from ¥9,600 for two.
- [Yanbaru Manabi no Mori](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/yanbaru-manabi-no-mori): Yanbaru Manabi no Mori is a 14-room nature lodge at Aha in Kunigami beside the Yanbaru forest World Heritage area, with forest-view twin rooms and a goemon-buro bath, about two hours by car from Naha.
- [Yoshu Ryokan](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/yoshu-ryokan): Yoshu Ryokan is a 20-room inn in Yoron's main town of Chabana, two minutes' walk from the town hall, with February 2027 rooms from ¥8,200 for two.
- [Yuinchi Hotel Nanjo](https://rideokinawa.com/stays/yuinchi-hotel-nanjo): Yuinchi Hotel Nanjo is a 100-room hillside hotel in Sashiki whose natural hot spring, Enjin no Yu, runs straight from the source untreated, which makes it a good winter base for families, and it has had no indoor pool since August 2026.

## Beaches, snorkel and dive sites
- [17END](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/17end): 17END is the shoreline at the north end of Shimojishima Airport's 3,000 m runway, where the approach end runs out toward the sea, and visitors reach it on foot.
- [Agenashiku-jima Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/agenashiku-jima-beach): Agenashiku-jima Beach lies on an uninhabited 0.10 km² islet in Zamami Village that only the islet ferry from Zamami Port reaches, for ¥1,800 return on the village guide map; village lifeguards patrol it in season, and camping is banned.
- [Aharen Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/aharen-beach): Aharen Beach is Tokashiki-jima's main beach, where about 800 m of white sand lines the south-west coast 5 km from Tokashiki Port, and it has village lifeguards from 11 April to 30 November in 2026 and compulsory life jackets for snorkelling inside the monitored zone.
- [Ama Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/ama-beach): Ama Beach on the west side of Zamami-jima is a shallow, lifeguarded beach 1.5 km from Zamami Port where sea turtles feed close to shore, with Ama Campground behind the sand and hot showers there in winter.
- [Antonio Gaudi](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/antonio-gaudi): Antonio Gaudi is a deep arch dive off Shimoji for Advanced Open Water divers with deep-diving experience; it starts at 25 m and reaches 36 m.
- [Ara Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/ara-beach): Ara Beach is a quiet cove on Kume-jima's south side that hills ring at the end of a mountain road, and it has toilets and parking with no showers; the town advises leaving before sunset because the road back gets dark.
- [Aragusuku Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/aragusuku-beach): Aragusuku Beach (Shinjo Kaigan) in Gusukube is a shore-snorkelling beach on Miyako's south-east coast where coral and tropical fish live in the shallows close to the sand.
- [Araha Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/araha-beach): Araha Beach is a 600 m managed sand beach in Chatan's Araha Park, with lifesavers and showers from 10 April to 31 October in 2026. It faces west for the sunset and sits about 2.7 km of flat riding south of American Village.
- [Azama Sun Sun Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/azama-sunsun-beach): Azama Sun Sun Beach in Chinen, Nanjo is a netted, fully equipped beach next to the Kudaka ferry port that opens for swimming from opening day to October and for marine sports all year.
- [Barasu Island](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/barasu-island): Barasu Island is a small islet of broken coral between Iriomote and Hatoma that snorkel tours visit for the dense branching coral around it, and the highest tides can cover its pile of white rubble.
- [Bibi Beach Itoman](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/bibi-beach-itoman): Bibi Beach Itoman is a managed artificial beach beside Itoman fishing port, about 20 minutes from Naha Airport, that opens for swimming from opening day to the end of October and for barbecues all year.
- [Boraga Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/boraga-beach): Boraga Beach at Bora on Miyako's south-east coast is a small beach park with a pool fed by natural spring water and the launch point for kayak tours to the Pumpkin Hole cave.
- [Eef Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/eef-beach): Eef Beach runs for about 2 km of white sand down Kume-jima's east coast and ranks among Japan's 100 selected beaches, and the town calls its shallow, calm water safe for small children; swim at high tide, since low water uncovers flats far out.
- [Emerald Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/emerald-beach): Emerald Beach in Ocean Expo Park, Motobu, is a netted and lifeguarded coral-sand beach inside a lagoon, with free showers and swimming from April to October.
- [Furuzamami Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/furuzamami-beach): Furuzamami Beach lies 1.4 km from Zamami Port and is Zamami-jima's main swimming beach, where coral and tropical fish sit a few metres off the sand and the Michelin Green Guide gives two stars; the showers and rentals open only in summer.
- [Fusaki Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/fusaki-beach): Fusaki Beach runs about 1 km in front of Fusaki Beach Resort west of Ishigaki town, with lifeguards over a netted swim area beside its photogenic pier, and it stays open all year, from 9:00 to 17:00 in winter. It faces west for sunset.
- [Gahi-jima Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/gahi-jima-beach): Gahi-jima Beach lies on an uninhabited 0.13 km² islet in Zamami Village that only the islet ferry from Zamami Port reaches, for ¥1,800 return on the village guide map; village lifeguards patrol it in season, and camping is banned.
- [Haemida Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/haemida-beach): Haemida Beach is the long beach at the southern tip of Iriomote, about 3 km past the road's end at Toyohara, with fine sand and shallow water facing Hateruma, and no toilets or lifeguards.
- [Hatenohama](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/hatenohama): Hatenohama is a chain of three sandbars about 7 km long that lies 5 km off Kume-jima's east coast, and only tour boats from Tomari Fisherina go there; winter trips are shorter and land at Naka-no-hama.
- [Hoshizuna Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/hoshizuna-beach): Hoshizuna Beach on Iriomote's north-west coast is the island's easiest snorkel from the shore; it takes its name from the star-shaped grains in its sand and lies 6 minutes by bus from Uehara port, with no lifeguards.
- [Hyakuna Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/hyakuna-beach): Hyakuna Beach is a natural, unmanaged beach with shallow water in Tamagusuku, Nanjo, and Ryukyu myth holds it sacred as the shore where Amamikiyo first landed.
- [Ida-no-hama](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/ida-no-hama): Ida-no-hama is a white-sand beach beyond Funauki on Iriomote's south-west coast, a village with no road, and you reach it by a 10-minute boat from Shirahama and a 10–15 minute walk; it has no lifeguards.
- [Ie Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/ie-beach): Ie Beach is Ie-jima's main south-coast beach near Ie port, with a café and cottages behind the sand and the Motobu Peninsula across the water.
- [Ijakajaku](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/ijakajaku-dive): Ijakajaku is a beginner-friendly Kerama dive at an islet north-west of Aka-jima, and it is best known as a manta cleaning station from May to October; sea turtles are often around, and in winter divers can hear humpback song.
- [Ikei Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/ikei-beach): Ikei Beach is the paid, privately run beach on Ikei-jima at the far end of the Kaichu Doro island road, and a day visit costs ¥400 for adults. It runs marine sports and BBQs, and it posts each day's opening on its website because storms and typhoon debris can close it.
- [Imgya Marine Garden](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/imgya-marine-garden): Imgya Marine Garden is a city park around a calm natural inlet at Tomori on Miyako-jima's south coast, and it has showers and a hilltop lookout.
- [Irizaki hammerhead dives](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/irizaki-hammerhead-point): The Irizaki hammerhead dives off Yonaguni's western cape draw divers from November to May, when Sawes Yonaguni's season chart marks hammerhead sharks off the westernmost point of Japan.
- [Iseki Point (Yonaguni Monument)](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/iseki-point): Iseki Point is the dive site off Arakawa-bana on Yonaguni's south coast where a local diver found the stepped underwater rock formation called the Yonaguni Monument in 1986, about 25 m deep at its base and reached by dive boat or semi-submersible from Kubura.
- [Ishigaki Sunset Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/ishigaki-sunset-beach): Ishigaki Sunset Beach is a natural beach at Kuura on the Hirakubo peninsula in northern Ishigaki, with clear water, coral close in, paid showers and summer-only marine sports. As the name says, it faces the sunset.
- [Kabira Bay beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/kabira-bay-beach): Kabira Bay's white beach is for walking only: Ishigaki City bans swimming because the bay deepens suddenly and the current runs fast, and it bans SUP and kayaks from the park too. Glass-bottom boats from the sand show the coral in about 30 minutes.
- [Kaiji Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/kaiji-beach): Kaiji Beach next to Kondoi on Taketomi's west coast is the star-sand beach, where you find the tiny star-shaped shells by pressing a palm into the sand near the rocks; the current runs fast, so it is a beach for walking.
- [Kita-Nashiro Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/kita-nashiro-beach): Kita-Nashiro Beach is a shallow natural beach on Itoman's west coast, reached by a farm road off Route 331, that Itoman recommends for its sunsets and night skies.
- [Komaka-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/komaka-jima): Komaka-jima is a small uninhabited island off Chinen, Nanjo, that you reach in about 15 minutes by boat from the Chinen Marine Leisure Center for a white beach and a reef for swimming and snorkelling.
- [Kondoi Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/kondoi-beach): Kondoi Beach on Taketomi's west coast is a long, shallow stretch of white sand that looks across to Iriomote and its neighbours, and it suits a calm swim at mid to high tide and a walk to the offshore sandbar at low tide. It is not an official swimming beach and has no lifeguards.
- [Kouri Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/kouri-beach): Kouri Beach sits at the island end of the Kouri Bridge on Kouri-jima, where about 300 m of sand on the west side gets a summer swim area and paid showers stand nearby.
- [Cape Maeda and the Blue Cave](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/maeda-point): Cape Maeda in Onna is the entry point for the Blue Cave snorkel and trial-dive site, and the cape's operator says plainly that it is not a swimming beach. A daily flag decides whether anyone may go in, and snorkellers must wear a life jacket or buoyancy belt.
- [Maesato Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/maesato-beach): Maesato Beach is the netted, lifeguarded resort beach of ANA InterContinental Ishigaki in Maezato, east of town, with a children's water play area and free parking for non-guests. Its rental house closes from December to February.
- [Manta Scramble](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/manta-scramble): Manta Scramble off Kabira Ishizaki is the manta ray dive that local shop Pushy Nushima calls probably Ishigaki's best known, and it suits beginners; the shop gives its season as May to October with the best odds in September and October, so a February trip will usually dive elsewhere.
- [Maou no Kyuden (Devil's Palace)](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/maou-no-kyuden): Maou no Kyuden (the Devil's Palace) is a cave dive off Shimoji for Advanced Open Water divers; Marea Miyakojima lists an entrance at about 15 m and a maximum depth of 19–30 m.
- [Mibaru Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/mibaru-beach): Mibaru Beach is a long natural beach in Tamagusuku, Nanjo, so shallow that you can walk to the reef at big low tides, and the Mibaru Marine Center runs glass-bottom boats from it all year.
- [Minata Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/minata-beach): Minata Beach on Yoron's north-east coast faces the islet of Minata-banare, which you can walk out to at low tide, and serves as a base for sea kayak and snorkel tours and one of the Yurigahama boat departures.
- [Minna Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/minna-beach): Minna Beach is the white-sand day-trip beach on Minna-jima, a 0.47 km² crescent island that the boat from Toguchi port in Motobu reaches in 15 minutes.
- [Nagamahama Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/nagamahama-beach): Nagamahama is a 1 km undeveloped beach on the west side of Kurima where nothing has been built, and it is the island's sunset spot.
- [Nakamoto Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/nakamoto-beach): Nakamoto Beach on Kuroshima's south-west coast has a reef lagoon full of tropical fish, and Taketomi Town warns of rip currents and many past accidents there, so snorkel in a life jacket with a partner, and only in the two hours around low tide.
- [Naminoue Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/naminoue-beach): Naminoue Beach is the only swimming beach in central Naha, and this free artificial beach below Naminoue-gu shrine opens for swimming from April to October.
- [Nanamata Arch](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/nanamata-arch): Nanamata Arch is a winter terrain dive through stacked arches off Miyako's south coast, and Marea Miyakojima rates it for Advanced Open Water divers with a maximum depth of 11–18 m.
- [Nirai Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/nirai-beach): Nirai Beach is a village-run beach in front of Hotel Nikko Alivila in Yomitan, where the shore rocks were left natural so the sea changes character between low and high tide. Parking is paid, and the marine house books water sports.
- [Nishibama Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/nishibama-beach): Nishibama Beach lies 1.5 km from Aka Port and is Aka-jima's main beach, with about 1 km of sand and a reef the Ministry of the Environment rates alongside Furuzamami; it faces north, so the winter wind blows straight in.
- [Nishihama](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/nishihama-beach): Nishihama is the 1.5 km white-sand beach on Hateruma's north coast, ten minutes' walk from the port and rated Japan's best beach by TripAdvisor users in 2017, where rip currents have drowned swimmers and no lifeguards are posted.
- [Nishi-no-hama](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/nishinohama-beach): Nishi-no-hama on Kuroshima's north-west shore, near the port, is the island's sunset beach and a sea turtle nesting site from April to about October.
- [Odo Beach (John Man Beach)](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/odo-beach): Odo Beach, which locals also call John Man Beach, is a natural reef coast in southeastern Itoman known for low-tide rock pools and diving, and it has no facilities, nets or lifeguards.
- [Oganeku Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/oganeku-beach): Oganeku Beach is Yoron's largest beach, with about 2 km of white sand on the east coast and shallow water for some 2 km offshore, and it is the main departure point for Yurigahama boats.
- [Okuma Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/okuma-beach): Okuma Beach in Kunigami is a 1 km white-sand resort beach on the Yanbaru coast that day visitors can use for ¥1,500 per adult, with snorkelling allowed inside the swim area.
- [Osaki Hanagoi Reef](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/osaki-hanagoi-reef): Osaki Hanagoi Reef off Ishigaki's west coast suits divers of every level, with schooling reef fish over the coral and small gobies and wrasse for the patient, according to local shop Pushy Nushima.
- [Ou-jima Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/ou-jima-beach): Ou-jima Beach is the calm, clear-water beach beside Tatami-ishi on Ou-jima, which a bridge joins to Kume-jima, and it has toilets, parking and Ojima Campground next to the sand.
- [Painagama Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/painagama-beach): Painagama Beach lies a short walk from central Hirara and has habu-jellyfish nets from 1 April to 30 October.
- [Sakuraguchi](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/sakuraguchi): Sakuraguchi is a dive site south of Ishigaki town with hard corals and fields of soft coral, and local shop Pushy Nushima takes divers there when the winter north wind blows hard, which makes it a likely site for a February dive.
- [Sawada no Hama](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/sawada-no-hama): Sawada no Hama is a shallow tidal beach on Irabu's north-west coast scattered with boulders thrown ashore by the 1771 Meiwa tsunami, and it is one of Japan's 100 selected beaches for its sunsets.
- [Sesoko Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/sesoko-beach): Sesoko Beach on Sesoko-jima in Motobu is an 800 m natural white-sand beach with a lifeguarded swim area, and its 2026 season ran from 7 March to 30 November.
- [Shigira Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/shigira-beach): Shigira Beach is the resort beach at Miyaguni in Ueno, where anyone can park free and snorkel over dozens of coral types and more than 100 fish species.
- [Shinri Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/shinri-beach): Shinri Beach sits 3 minutes by car from Kumejima Airport and is the island's sunset beach, with calm water, showers, a snack stand and a campsite, and planes landing and taking off close by.
- [Shiraho reef](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/shiraho-reef): Shiraho reef on Ishigaki's east coast holds one of the largest blue coral communities in the northern hemisphere, according to WWF Japan, with more than 120 coral species and 300 kinds of fish; the reef flat drains at low water, so the tide sets the plan.
- [Sukuji Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/sukuji-beach): Sukuji Beach near Kabira is the family swimming beach of north-west Ishigaki: shallow, with a jellyfish net, lifeguards in season, showers and toilets. It sits a few minutes west of Kabira Bay, where swimming is banned.
- [Sunabe seawall (Miyagi coast)](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/sunabe-seawall): The Sunabe seawall on Chatan's Miyagi coast is open reef that Chatan's tourism association calls a mecca for trial dives, and dive shops run trips from it all year and surfers paddle out when a swell comes. It has no lifeguards or nets, so beginners go in with a guide.
- [Sunayama Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/sunayama-beach): Sunayama Beach is a short, west-facing white-sand beach north of Hirara reached over a sand dune, and it has no lifeguards and a fenced-off rock arch.
- [Chatan Park Sunset Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/sunset-beach): Chatan Park Sunset Beach is the managed town beach beside American Village in Chatan, with lifesavers on duty and a beach building of showers and lockers from 10 April to 30 November in 2026. It takes its name from the sunsets over the East China Sea.
- [Terasaki Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/terasaki-beach): Terasaki Beach is a quiet white-sand beach on Yoron's north coast, next to Tumai beach where the film 'Megane' was shot, with no showers or toilets.
- [Tinu Beach and Heart Rock](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/tinu-beach): Tinu Beach on Kouri-jima's north shore holds Heart Rock, where two wave-cut rocks line up into a heart, and an airline commercial made it famous in 2014.
- [Toguchi Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/toguchi-beach): Toguchi Beach is a shallow, clear park beach at the mouth of the Hija River in Yomitan, with free parking and a playground, and it is the shore where US forces landed on 1 April 1945. Families come for the calm water and the sunset over the East China Sea.
- [Toguchi no Hama](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/toguchi-no-hama): Toguchi no Hama is an 800 m curve of fine white sand on Irabu's south coast, and it has toilets at both entrances and paid showers at the west end.
- [Tokashiku Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/tokashiku-beach): Tokashiku Beach is a calm, roughly 800 m bay on Tokashiki-jima's west coast known for sea turtles, with lifeguards from 11 April to 30 November in 2026; no bus serves it, so you reach it by taxi, scooter or bicycle.
- [Tokei Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/tokei-beach): Tokei Beach on Kouri-jima's north shore is a pair of quiet coves where water has worn round potholes into the rock, with a view out to Cape Hedo.
- [Toriike dive](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/toriike-dive): The Toriike dive on Shimoji is an advanced boat dive that runs from the sea through an arch at about 20 m and surfaces in the Toriike pond; Marea Miyakojima lists its maximum depth as 31–35 m.
- [Toyosaki Churasun Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/toyosaki-churasun-beach): Toyosaki Churasun Beach in Tomigusuku is a 700 m artificial beach about 15 minutes from Naha Airport that has a habu-kurage net and lifeguards in the swimming season.
- [Tsukigahama (Todumari Beach)](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/tsukigahama): Tsukigahama is the long sand beach north of the Urauchi River mouth on Iriomote's north-west coast, known in the island's language as Todumari; it is a walking and sunset beach with no lifeguards.
- [Tumai Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/tumai-beach): Tumai Beach is the long white-sand beach on the west coast of Tsuken-jima, about ten minutes on foot from the ferry port, with a shallow, gently sloping shore for swimming and snorkelling. It has no lifeguards or facilities listed, so bring what you need.
- [Ugan](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/ugan-dive): Ugan is an advanced drift dive at a rock islet north-east of Zamami-jima, worked to about 25 m around a pinnacle that rises from 40 m, where schools of pelagic fish pass and mantas show up at times; currents can run strong.
- [Uken Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/uken-beach): Uken Beach is a managed beach on Kin Bay in Uruma's Gushikawa district, with lifeguards during swimming hours from the spring opening to the end of October and BBQ pavilions open all year. It closes only over the New Year.
- [Uppama Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/uppama-beach): Uppama Beach on Nakijin's north coast is a white-sand beach about 1 km long with a jellyfish net and lifeguards from April to September.
- [W Arch](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/w-arch-irabu): W Arch is a summer dive off Irabu where twin arches frame a heart, and Marea Miyakojima rates it for Open Water divers with a maximum depth of 11–18 m.
- [Yabiji (Yaebishi)](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/yabiji): Yabiji is a system of more than 100 reefs that stretches 17 km north to south off Ikema; it is a national Place of Scenic Beauty and Natural Monument, and tour boats reach it from Ikema port between spring and summer.
- [Yara-hama](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/yara-hama): Yara-hama is the widest beach on Hatoma, with shallow water and shade on the island's west side, and the Taketomi Town Tourism Association recommends it for sunset. Like every Hatoma beach it is not an official swimming beach.
- [Yonaha Maehama Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/yonaha-maehama-beach): Yonaha Maehama is a 7 km white-sand beach on Miyako-jima's south-west coast with jellyfish nets and lifeguards in season, and TripAdvisor has named it Japan's top beach several times.
- [Yonara Channel](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/yonara-channel): The Yonara Channel between Kohama and Iriomote is a fast-current drift dive for manta rays that suits intermediate and advanced divers, and Ishigaki shop Pushy Nushima says it was once better known than Kabira Ishizaki.
- [Yonehara Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/yonehara-beach): Yonehara Beach on Ishigaki's north-west coast draws snorkellers to coral close to shore inside Iriomote-Ishigaki National Park, and it has no lifeguards, so the local rules ask everyone in the water to wear a life jacket or wetsuit. Stay inside the reef and skip it in wind.
- [Yoshino Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/yoshino-beach): Yoshino Beach in Gusukube is the shore-snorkelling lagoon the city credits with the most tropical fish on Miyako; a shuttle runs down from a paid cliff-top car park, and the lagoon needs mid to high tide.
- [Yurigahama](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/yurigahama): Yurigahama is a sand flat about 1.5 km off Oganeku beach on Yoron's east coast that surfaces only around low tide on suitable days, and the island's marine shops run five-minute glass-bottom boat rides out to it.
- [Zanpa Beach](https://rideokinawa.com/beaches/zanpa-beach): Zanpa Beach is Yomitan village's managed beach near Cape Zanpa, with a swim season from 1 April to 31 October, free parking and ¥200 showers. The beach house stays open 9:00–17:00 through the winter.

## Sights
- [Agarizaki](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/agarizaki): Agarizaki is the cape at the eastern end of Yonaguni, where a cliff rises about 100 m above the sea below a lighthouse and an open pasture grazed by Yonaguni horses.
- [Aharen Cape Park](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/aharen-cape): Aharen Cape Park sits at the southern tip of Tokashiki-jima beyond Aharen village, and footpaths there cross sandstone to cliffs and wind-pruned plants.
- [Aka Ohashi](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/aka-ohashi): The Aka Ohashi is the 530 m arch bridge that has joined Aka-jima and Geruma-jima since 24 June 1998, and from its deck you can look down on sea turtles in the channel and west to the Sakubaru rock formations.
- [Amamichu](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/amamichu): Amamichu is the tomb of the creator deities Amamikyu and Shinerikyu on a rock islet off Higa village on Hamahiga-jima in Uruma, and you can walk out to it only at low tide. It is a city-designated historic site and a working prayer site for health and children.
- [American Village seawall and the Sunabe walk](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/american-village-seawall): The American Village seawall is the free waterfront promenade in Chatan that runs from Sunset Beach past the Depot Island boardwalk to the Fisherina marina, and a flat walk or ride north follows the seawall on to Sunabe. People gather on its benches for sunset, and fireworks go up over the water every Saturday at 20:00.
- [Banna Park](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/banna-park): Banna Park is a free prefectural forest park of about 290 hectares on 230 m Banna-dake, 4 km north of Ishigaki town, with lookouts that reach Hateruma 55 km away on clear days and a forested road climb close to town.
- [Bios Hill](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/bios-hill): Bios Hill is a subtropical garden park in Uruma's Ishikawa district where a boat takes visitors around a jungle lake, and entry costs ¥2,200 for adults and ¥1,100 for children. It opens 9:00 to 17:30 on most days, and families come for the water-buffalo cart and the big swings.
- [Busena Marine Park](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/busena-marine-park): Busena Marine Park on Nago's Busena peninsula runs an underwater observatory and a glass-bottom boat over the reef all year, with last entry at 17:00 in winter.
- [Cape Hedo](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/cape-hedo): Cape Hedo in Kunigami is the northernmost point of Okinawa Island, and from its coral-limestone headland you can see Yoron, 22 km north in the Amami Islands, on clear days.
- [Cape Kyan](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/cape-kyan): Cape Kyan in southern Itoman is a free clifftop lookout with a lighthouse where the Pacific meets the East China Sea; people often call it the southern tip of Okinawa Island, and Arasaki, just to the east, is the true southernmost point.
- [Cape Manzamo](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/cape-manzamo): Cape Manzamo is a grass-topped limestone headland in Onna with 20 m cliffs over the East China Sea, and entry costs ¥100 a person. It opens daily until sunset, and the visitor building at the gate holds a soba restaurant and a gift shop.
- [Cape Zanpa](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/cape-zanpa): Cape Zanpa is a headland in Yomitan where cliffs about 30 m high run for roughly 2 km above the East China Sea, topped by a 31 m lighthouse that visitors can climb for ¥300. The cape and its car park are free, and the Yomitan tourism association calls its sunset the last on the main island.
- [Chinen Misaki Park](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/chinen-misaki-park): Chinen Misaki Park is a free clifftop park on the Chinen peninsula in Nanjo that looks east across the Pacific to Kudaka-jima and Komaka-jima, and it sits a few minutes' walk from the Sefa-utaki ticket office.
- [Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/churaumi-aquarium): Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Ocean Expo Park, Motobu, keeps whale sharks and reef manta rays in its Kuroshio Sea main tank and charges adults ¥2,180 in 2026.
- [ASMUI Spiritual Hikes (Daisekirinzan)](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/daisekirinzan): ASMUI Spiritual Hikes near Cape Hedo leads walkers through 250-million-year-old limestone karst on a 60-minute main course for ¥2,500 per adult in 2026; until December 2024 the site was called Daisekirinzan.
- [Dr. Koto Clinic Set](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/dr-koto-clinic-set): The Dr. Koto Clinic Set in Higawa is the open-air clinic built for Fuji TV's drama 'Dr. Koto Shinryojo', open 9:00–18:00 daily for ¥300 on the beach of Yonaguni's south-coast village.
- [Euglena Mall](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/euglena-mall): Euglena Mall is Ishigaki's covered shopping arcade, which calls itself Japan's southernmost, and it runs a few blocks north of the ferry terminal with souvenir shops and small restaurants around the Ishigaki City Public Market. It keeps you dry on a wet day in town.
- [Fukushuen Garden](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/fukushuen): Fukushuen is a Fuzhou-style Chinese garden in Naha's Kume district that opens 9:00–21:00 except Wednesdays and charges ¥200 by day and ¥300 after 18:00.
- [Funaura Causeway](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/funaura-kaichu-doro): The Funaura Causeway carries Iriomote's Route 215 across Funaura Bay east of Uehara on a flat stretch over the water that opened in 1976, with Pinaisara Falls visible up the bay.
- [Gangala Valley](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/gangala-valley): Gangala Valley in Tamagusuku, Nanjo is a forest grown in a collapsed limestone cave that you can visit only on a booked 80-minute guided walk of about 1 km for ¥2,500.
- [Koza Gate Street](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/gate-2-street): Koza Gate Street runs from Goya crossroads to Gate 2 of Kadena Air Base in Okinawa City, and its bars and shops sign their names in English and Japanese. Koza Music Town on the street holds the Ongaku Ichiba live venue and the Eisa Kaikan, with places to eat downstairs.
- [Gesashi Bay mangroves and Higashi Fureai Hirugi Park](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/gesashi-mangroves): The Gesashi Bay mangroves in Higashi make up the largest mangrove forest on Okinawa Island and a national natural monument, and you can see them from a free 670 m boardwalk or by canoe at high tide.
- [Gushikawa Castle Ruins](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/gushikawa-castle-ruins): Gushikawa Castle Ruins is a national historic site on the cliffs of Kume-jima's north-west coast, where the town says Madafutsu Aji built a gusuku in the early fifteenth century with four enclosures inside walls of laid andesite.
- [Gusuku-yama (Ie-jima Tacchu)](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/gusuku-yama): Gusuku-yama, which locals call Ie-jima Tacchu, is the only mountain on Ie-jima at 172.2 m, and you climb it by 291 concrete steps in 15–20 minutes from the trailhead car park.
- [Gyokusendo Cave (Okinawa World)](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/gyokusendo): Gyokusendo is a limestone cave in Tamagusuku, Nanjo, whose show section of about 800 m is walked as part of the Okinawa World park (adult ¥2,000, 9:00–17:30, last entry 16:00).
- [Hateruma Star Observatory](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/hateruma-star-observatory): The Hateruma Star Observatory near Takanasaki was Japan's southernmost public observatory and has been closed since July 2022 because of salt and typhoon damage; Taketomi Town has decided to demolish it.
- [Hatoma Lighthouse](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/hatoma-lighthouse): Hatoma Lighthouse has stood on the 34 m hill of Hatoma Nakamori at the centre of the island since 1948, when it went up after shipwrecks nearby, and the hill looks across to the mountains of Iriomote.
- [Higashi-Hennazaki](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/higashi-hennazaki): Higashi-Hennazaki is the 2 km cape at the eastern tip of Miyako-jima; it is a national Place of Scenic Beauty, and its lighthouse is open to climb for ¥300.
- [Hiji Falls](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/hiji-falls): Hiji Falls in Kunigami, at about 26 m the highest waterfall in Yanbaru National Park, has been closed, car park and trail included, since heavy rain damaged the site in November 2024, with no reopening date published as of October 2026.
- [Hirakubozaki Lighthouse](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/hirakubozaki-lighthouse): Hirakubozaki Lighthouse stands at the end of the Hirakubo peninsula on Ishigaki's northern tip, which Ishigaki City puts about 80 minutes by car from town, and it looks out over a full circle of reef and ocean. The Ryukyu government first lit it in 1965.
- [Hiyajo Banta](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/hiyajo-banta): Hiyajo Banta is the clifftop lookout that stands about 200 m above the sea on Kume-jima's north-east coast and looks over Hatenohama and the reef to Aguni, Tonaki and the Kerama Islands; for a cyclist it is the island's biggest climb.
- [Ikema Ohashi](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/ikema-bridge): The Ikema Ohashi carries the road 1,425 m from Karimata on Miyako-jima to Ikema island, and it has done so since 14 February 1992.
- [Ikema Wetland](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/ikema-wetland): Ikema Wetland is a 38 ha freshwater marsh in the middle of Ikema island, the largest wetland in Okinawa Prefecture and part of a national wildlife protection area.
- [Iko Pier](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/iko-sanbashi): Iko Pier is a 354 m stone and concrete jetty that islanders built in 1935 on Kuroshima's north coast; it is now a registered cultural property, and you can still walk to its end over the shallows. High tide and sunrise suit it best.
- [Inazaki Observatory](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/inazaki-observatory): Inazaki Observatory on Zamami-jima's north coast is where whale spotters watch for humpbacks each winter morning and radio the boats, and the Japan Tourism Agency names it Zamami's best place to watch whales from land; it lies about 3.1 km by road from Zamami Port.
- [Irabu Ohashi](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/irabu-bridge): The Irabu Ohashi is a 3,540 m toll-free bridge that has linked Miyako-jima and Irabu since 31 January 2015, and it is the signature ride on the island.
- [Iriomote Wildlife Conservation Center](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/iriomote-wildlife-conservation-center): The Iriomote Wildlife Conservation Center in Komi is the Ministry of the Environment's free visitor centre for the Iriomote cat and the island's rare wildlife, open 10:00–17:00 except Mondays, about 15 minutes by car north of Ohara port.
- [Irizaki](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/irizaki-cape): Irizaki is the cape at the western tip of Yonaguni, above Kubura, where the 'westernmost point of Japan' monument and a lighthouse look out towards Taiwan, 111 km away.
- [Ishigaki-jima Limestone Cave](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/ishigaki-limestone-cave): Ishigaki-jima Limestone Cave is the island's largest cave, and 660 m of its 3.2 km open to visitors on Route 208 just north of town, at ¥1,200 for adults in 2026. It suits a wet or windy winter day.
- [Ishigaki Yaima-mura](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/ishigaki-yaima-mura): Ishigaki Yaima-mura gathers red-tiled houses over 100 years old on a hill above Nagura Bay on Route 208, with sanshin music in the houses and a squirrel monkey enclosure; adult entry costs ¥1,200 in 2026.
- [Japan's Southernmost Monument](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/japan-southernmost-monument): Japan's Southernmost Monument on Hateruma's south coast near Takanasaki is a concrete marker that a student who had travelled the length of Japan from Hokkaido built in 1970; it stands beside the 1995 Peace Monument and the 1972 Hateruma stone.
- [Kabira Bay](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kabira-bay): Kabira Bay is the inlet of pale green water and small wooded islets below Kabira Park on Ishigaki's north-west coast, and the city counts it among the most visited sights in Okinawa Prefecture. Swimming is banned, so glass-bottom boats show you the coral, and late morning on a clear day brings out the colour.
- [Kafu Banta](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kafu-banta): Kafu Banta is a free cliff-top lookout in the grounds of the Nuchima-su salt factory on Miyagi-jima in Uruma, open from 9:00 to 17:30 every day. The salt company translates its Okinawan name as the cape of happiness, and it looks east over a reef that runs from deep blue to pale green.
- [Kaichu Doro](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kaichu-doro): The Kaichu Doro is the 4.75 km sea road in Uruma that links the Katsuren peninsula to Henza-jima, and every car or bike bound for Hamahiga, Miyagi or Ikei crosses it. Umino Eki Ayahashi-kan sits at the midpoint with a road park and a shop, and a museum of Okinawan trading boats fills its upper floor.
- [Kakazu Takadai Park](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kakazu-takadai-park): Kakazu Takadai Park is a hilltop park in Ginowan built on Kakazu Ridge, where fighting raged for more than two weeks from about 6 April 1945 in the Battle of Okinawa. A Japanese pillbox and trench remains still stand in the park, and about half of Kakazu's residents died in the battle.
- [Kami-no-hama Observatory](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kaminohama-observatory): Kami-no-hama Observatory stands on the cliffs at the western tip of Zamami-jima beyond Ama, and its roofed deck faces Aka and the outer islands; the village rates its sunsets from about April to October.
- [Kanbire Falls](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kanbire-falls): Kanbire Falls is a 200 m run of low, wide cascades on Iriomote's Urauchi River, about 250 m upstream of Mariyudu Falls, whose name is said to mean 'seat of the gods'.
- [Kannonzaki Lighthouse](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kannonzaki-lighthouse): Kannonzaki Lighthouse stands on the coast just west of Ishigaki town and looks straight across calm water at Taketomi, and a shelter with picnic tables makes it an easy sunset stop.
- [Kayauchi Banta](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kayauchi-banta): Kayauchi Banta in Kunigami is an 80 m limestone cliff above Ginama whose lookout takes in the whole west coast of Yanbaru down to the Motobu Peninsula.
- [Kokusai-dori](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kokusai-dori-street): Kokusai-dori is Naha's main shopping street and runs a little over a mile from the Prefectural Office to Asato; on Sundays from 12:00 to 18:00 about 1.3 km of it closes to traffic.
- [Kondoi sandbar walk](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kondoi-beach-walk): At low tide the water off Kondoi beach on Taketomi's west coast grows too shallow to swim, and a sandbar appears offshore that you can wade out to, with Iriomote and its neighbours across the water.
- [Kouri Bridge](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kouri-bridge): The Kouri Bridge carries Prefectural Route 247 for 1,960 m from Yagaji-jima in Nago to Kouri-jima in Nakijin, and it has been toll-free since it opened on 8 February 2005.
- [Kouri Ocean Tower](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kouri-ocean-tower): Kouri Ocean Tower on Kouri-jima takes visitors by cart up to a white tower about 82 m above sea level that looks straight down the Kouri Bridge, and adult entry costs ¥1,000.
- [Kubura-bari](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kubura-bari): Kubura-bari is a deep crevasse in the coastal rock just north of Kubura on Yonaguni, and island tradition remembers it as a place where pregnant women were made to jump the gap to reduce the population under the old head tax.
- [Yambaru Kuina no Mori (Okinawa Rail Ecology Center)](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kuina-no-mori): Yambaru Kuina no Mori in Ada, Kunigami, is the one place where you can see the flightless Yanbaru kuina, or Okinawa rail, in captivity, and it opens 9:00–17:00 except on Wednesdays.
- [Kumejima Firefly Museum](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kumejima-firefly-museum): The Kumejima Firefly Museum is a small town-run nature centre in Ota with a boardwalk biotope, and it opens 9:30–17:00 for ¥100; it tells the story of the Kumejima firefly, which flies from mid-April to early May and is a prefectural natural monument.
- [Kumejima Sea Turtle Museum](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kumejima-sea-turtle-museum): The Kumejima Sea Turtle Museum stands beside Tatami-ishi on Ou-jima and shows live sea turtles in a large tank; adults pay ¥500 (since April 2024), and it opens from 9:00 and closes on Tuesdays.
- [Kurima Ohashi](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kurima-bridge): The Kurima Ohashi carries a farm road 1,690 m from the Yonaha Maehama end of Miyako-jima to Kurima island, and it opened on 13 March 1995.
- [Kuroshima Observation Tower](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kuroshima-observation-tower): Kuroshima Observation Tower stands beside the school in Higashisuji at the centre of a flat island whose land tops out at 15.3 m, and tiles on its top floor map the islands around you.
- [Kuroshima Visitor Center](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/kuroshima-visitor-center): Kuroshima Visitor Center is the Ministry of the Environment's national park centre in Miyazato, with displays on the island's history and the sea life around Kuroshima. It sits a short ride from Nakamoto beach.
- [Ie-jima Lily Field Park](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/lily-field-park): Ie-jima Lily Field Park on the island's north coast fills with about a million white Easter lilies from late April to early May, when the free Ie-jima Lily Festival runs.
- [Daiichi Makishi Public Market](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/makishi-public-market): The Daiichi Makishi Public Market in Naha is the city's fish and meat market, and since reopening in a new building in March 2023 it still lets you buy seafood on the ground floor and have it cooked upstairs for a separate fee.
- [Makiyama Observatory](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/makiyama-observatory): Makiyama Observatory stands on Irabu's highest point at 89.0 m, and its white sashiba-shaped deck looks back to Miyako-jima.
- [Mariyudu Falls](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/mariyudu-falls): Mariyudu Falls is a two-tier, 16 m waterfall on Iriomote's Urauchi River and one of Japan's 100 best waterfalls; you see it from a viewing platform about 40 minutes' walk from the upper boat landing.
- [Michi-no-Eki Kadena](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/michi-no-eki-kadena): Michi-no-Eki Kadena is a roadside station in Kadena whose fourth-floor deck looks straight over Kadena Air Base, open free from 8:30 to 22:00 every day. A third-floor exhibition room explains what living beside the base means for the town.
- [Minatogawa Stateside Town](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/minatogawa-stateside-town): Minatogawa Stateside Town is a block of about 70 concrete one-storey houses in Urasoe that were built in the 1960s for US military families and now hold cafés and shops. Residents still live among the shops, so Urasoe asks visitors to stay off private lots and keep their voices down.
- [Miyakojima City Tropical Botanical Garden](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/miyako-tropical-botanical-garden): The Miyakojima City Tropical Botanical Garden is a free garden east of Hirara with about 1,600 subtropical tree species and a 400 m avenue of deigo trees that flowers in February and March.
- [Miyakojima Sea Park](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/miyakojima-sea-park): Miyakojima Sea Park in Karimata is an underwater observatory where 24 acrylic windows look straight onto the reef, for ¥1,000 an adult.
- [Miyara Donchi](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/miyara-donchi): Miyara Donchi is the house a Yaeyama district head built around 1819 in Ishigaki town, and the city calls it the only samurai-class residence of the Ryukyu Kingdom era left standing in Okinawa; Japan lists its dry stone garden as a Place of Scenic Beauty. It sits 400 m north of the port.
- [Nago Central Park and Nagogusuku](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/nago-castle-park): Nago Central Park covers the hill of the Nago Castle ruins above central Nago and flowers with hikanzakura cherry from late January to early February, when the city holds the Nago Sakura Matsuri.
- [Nago Pineapple Park](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/nago-pineapple-park): Nago Pineapple Park on Route 84 in Nago runs a pineapple garden and winery, and its homepage listed adult entry at ¥850 in October 2026.
- [Nagomi-no-to](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/nagomi-no-to): Nagomi-no-to is the small concrete lookout tower in the middle of Taketomi village that residents built in 1953; it is a listed cultural property and has been closed to climbing since September 2016 because of its age.
- [Nagura Anparu](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/nagura-anparu): Nagura Anparu is a Ramsar-listed mangrove and tidal-flat wetland at the mouth of the Nagura River on Ishigaki's west coast, and the coast road crosses it on a sandbar between town and Kabira. Low tide shows its crabs and birds best.
- [Nakama River](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/nakama-river): The Nakama River at Ohara on Iriomote holds one of Japan's largest mangrove forests, and Iriomote Kotsu's walk-on cruise from Ohara port runs 50–60 minutes up it for ¥3,500 (from October 2026) all year.
- [Niraikanai Bridge](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/niraikanai-bridge): The Niraikanai Bridge in Chinen, Nanjo is a pair of road bridges about 660 m long and 80 m high that swing down from the Tsukishiro hills to the coast road with a view over the Pacific to Kudaka-jima.
- [Nishi-Hennazaki](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/nishi-hennazaki): Nishi-Hennazaki is the cape at Miyako-jima's north-west tip in Karimata, and from it you see the Ikema Ohashi and Irabu.
- [Nishi Pier](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/nishi-sanbashi): Nishi Pier is a 105 m stone and concrete jetty on Taketomi's west coast that islanders built in 1938; it is now a registered cultural property, and people gather there to watch the sun set over Iriomote. It sits a short ride west of the village.
- [Ocean Expo Park](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/ocean-expo-park): Ocean Expo Park in Motobu is a free national park that commemorates the 1975 Okinawa International Ocean Exposition, and the Churaumi Aquarium and Emerald Beach both stand inside it.
- [Ogan-zaki Lighthouse](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/ogan-zaki-lighthouse): Ogan-zaki Lighthouse stands on high cliffs at the tip of the Sakieda peninsula in western Ishigaki and looks over deep blue water to the long shape of Iriomote; many people come for the sunset.
- [Okinawa Zoo & Museum](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/okinawa-zoo): Okinawa Zoo & Museum is the zoo and children's museum in Okinawa City that locals call Okinawa Kodomo no Kuni, and admission costs ¥1,000 from age 16 with free entry for anyone 15 or under. It closes on Tuesdays and stays open to 21:00 on weekends and holidays.
- [Pinaisara Falls](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/pinaisara-falls): Pinaisara Falls on Iriomote drops about 55 m, more than any other waterfall in Okinawa Prefecture, and since 1 March 2025 you may reach it only with a registered guide and Taketomi Town's prior approval, within a cap of 200 people a day.
- [Ryugu-jo Observatory](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/ryugu-jo-observatory): The Ryugu-jo Observatory is a three-storey tower styled on the Dragon Palace of folklore, and from its hilltop on Kurima it looks across to Yonaha Maehama and Irabu.
- [Senaga-jima and Umikaji Terrace](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/senaga-jima-umikaji-terrace): Senaga-jima is a small island joined by road to Tomigusuku just south of Naha Airport, and its hillside Umikaji Terrace of white-walled shops and restaurants is open 10:00–21:00 every day.
- [Shirumichu](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/shirumichu): Shirumichu is the cave on Hamahiga-jima in Uruma where Ryukyuan tradition says the creator deities Amamikyu and Shinerikyu lived and had their children, and it is an active prayer site that visitors may walk up to. A torii marks the start of 108 steps through the woods south of Higa village.
- [Shuri Kinjo-cho Stone-paved Road](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/shuri-kinjo-ishidatami): The Shuri Kinjo-cho Stone-paved Road is a 238 m stretch of the Ryukyu kingdom's old Madama-michi highway whose limestone paving climbs the slope below Shuri Castle in Naha; it is free to walk at any hour.
- [Sueyoshi Park](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/sueyoshi-park): Sueyoshi Park is a free 7.74 ha park on the edge of Shuri in Naha that holds the national historic site of Sueyoshi-gu shrine and the cherry tree Okinawa's weather observatory uses to declare the year's first blossoms.
- [Sugar Road](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/sugar-road): The Sugar Road is a straight lane between sugar cane fields on Kohama that the 2001 NHK drama Churasan made famous as a school route, and the Taketomi Town Tourism Association recommends it for cycling with the sea ahead.
- [Tachigami-iwa](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/tachigami-iwa): Tachigami-iwa is a sea stack about 20 m high off Yonaguni's south-east coast that islanders treat as sacred and as the island's symbol; two viewpoints on the Sanninudai coast road look down on it.
- [Takanasaki](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/takanasaki): Takanasaki is the cape on Hateruma's south-east coast that Japan treats as its southernmost, where a 1 km line of limestone sea cliffs a dozen or so metres high stands above open Pacific swell.
- [Takatsuki-yama Observatory](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/takatsukiyama-observatory): Takatsuki-yama Observatory is the lookout closest to Zamami Port, at the top of a steep 1.4 km road about 137 m above the sea, and the Ministry of the Environment points whale watchers to its second deck from late December to April.
- [Takibaru Observatory](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/takibaru-observatory): Takibaru Observatory crowns a hill of about 165 m on Aka-jima and gives a 360° view over the Kerama group; the climb from Aka Port is a steep 3 km.
- [Tamatorizaki Observatory](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/tamatorizaki-observatory): Tamatorizaki Observatory is a free lookout off Route 390 in north-east Ishigaki where the island narrows, so you see the Pacific on one side and the East China Sea on the other, with the green Hirakubo peninsula running away north. It is the obvious pause on any ride or drive to the northern cape.
- [Tatami-ishi](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/tatami-ishi): Tatami-ishi is a pavement of andesite lava columns on Ou-jima's south-west shore that has been a national natural monument since 29 July 2014; Ou-jima lies just off Kume-jima's east coast, and the columns show best at low tide.
- [Teruyama Observatory](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/teruyama-observatory): Teruyama Observatory is the tower lookout on the ridge between Tokashiku and Aharen beaches on Tokashiki-jima, where whale spotters work in season and Kerama azaleas bloom from February to March; it lies 3.3 km by road from Tokashiki Port.
- [Tindabana](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/tindabana): Tindabana is an 85 m limestone cliff behind Sonai on Yonaguni that has been a national scenic place since 2014 and serves as a natural lookout over Sonai and Nanta beach.
- [Toriike](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/toriike): Toriike is a pair of sinkhole ponds on Shimoji's west coast that join underwater and open to the sea; they measure 75 m and 55 m across and 45 m and 25 m deep.
- [Uegusuku Castle Ruins](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/uegusuku-castle-ruins): Uegusuku Castle Ruins sit on the summit of Uegusuku-dake, which at about 310 m is Kume-jima's highest point, and the Agency for Cultural Affairs calls it the highest gusuku in Okinawa; it has been a national historic site since 23 July 2009.
- [Ufudaki](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/ufudaki-observatory): Ufudaki is Kohama's 99 m summit just above the village, and Taketomi Town says the top shows eight islands of Yaeyama, with only Yonaguni out of view. It also holds a beacon-fire site from the Ryukyu era.
- [Yanbaru World Heritage Center and Ufugi Nature Museum](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/ufugi-nature-museum): The Yanbaru World Heritage Center and Ufugi Nature Museum in Hiji, Kunigami, is the Ministry of the Environment's visitor centre for the Yanbaru forest, and it opens 10:00–17:00 except on Mondays for a ¥300 contribution.
- [Urasoe Gusuku and Urasoe Yodore](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/urasoe-castle-ruins): Urasoe Gusuku is the hilltop castle site in Urasoe from which kings ruled Okinawa for about 220 years before Shuri, and the royal tombs of Urasoe Yodore lie on its flank. The ruins are free and the small museum charges ¥100. Some of the hardest fighting of 1945 took place on the same ridge, which US soldiers called Hacksaw Ridge.
- [Urauchi River](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/urauchi-river): The Urauchi River on Iriomote is the longest river in Okinawa Prefecture at 18.8 km, and Urauchi Kanko's boats carry visitors 8 km up through mangroves in about 30 minutes to the trail for Mariyudu and Kanbire falls.
- [Yaedake cherry blossoms](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/yaedake-sakura): Yaedake in Motobu rises to 453.4 m, higher than any other point on the Motobu Peninsula, and about 7,000 deep-pink kanhizakura cherry trees flower on its road from late January, when the Motobu Yaedake Sakura Matsuri runs.
- [Yanbaru Manabi no Mori](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/yanbaru-manabi-no-mori): Yanbaru Manabi no Mori in Aha, Kunigami, is the village's forest education centre, with a 1.5 km nature trail for ¥300 and two-hour guided walks into the Yanbaru forest for ¥3,500.
- [Yonehara Yaeyama Palm Grove](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/yonehara-palm-grove): Yonehara's Yaeyama palm grove is one of only three natural stands of the Yaeyama palm, which grows wild only on Ishigaki and Iriomote, and a boardwalk leads beneath palms 10 to 20 m tall beside Route 79. It makes a cool, shaded ride stop.
- [Yoron Castle Ruins](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/yoron-castle-ruins): The Yoron Castle Ruins are the unfinished stone walls of a gusuku begun around 1405–1416 on a 90 m plateau in southern Yoron; they became a national historic site on 10 March 2025 and are the stage for the Yoron Jugoya Odori.
- [Yoron Minzoku-mura](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/yoron-minzoku-mura): Yoron Minzoku-mura is a private open-air folk museum in Mugiya on Yoron's south-east coast, where the Kiku family shows rebuilt thatched houses and tools and keeps the island's bashofu weaving alive, open 9:00–18:00 daily for ¥500.
- [Yubu-jima](https://rideokinawa.com/sights/yubu-island): Yubu-jima is a 0.15 km² sand island 0.5 km off Iriomote's east coast that you reach by water buffalo cart through the shallows, and a subtropical botanical garden has covered the whole island since 1981.

## Culture and history
- [32nd Army Headquarters Tunnels](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/32nd-army-headquarters): The 32nd Army Headquarters Tunnels run about 1,000 m beneath Shuri Castle, where the Japanese army directed the Battle of Okinawa until it withdrew south at the end of May 1945. The tunnels are closed to the public, and Okinawa Prefecture is working toward preserving them and opening part of the site, with no date set.
- [Chibichiri-gama](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/chibichiri-gama): Chibichiri-gama in Hanza, Yomitan, is the cave where 83 of about 140 villagers died on 2 April 1945 as relatives killed one another or themselves in fear of the American soldiers who had landed the day before. The cave has been closed to everyone since 1995 at the families' request, and visitors pay their respects at its mouth.
- [Former Japanese Navy Underground Headquarters](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/former-navy-hq): The Former Japanese Navy Underground Headquarters in Tomigusuku is the tunnel complex where the naval commander Minoru Ota and his staff died in June 1945, with about 300 m of passages open to walk. Adult admission is ¥600, and the site opens daily from 9:00 to 17:00.
- [Himeyuri Monument and Himeyuri Peace Museum](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/himeyuri-monument): The Himeyuri Monument in Itoman marks the cave where students and teachers of two girls' schools died in June 1945, and the Himeyuri Peace Museum beside it tells their story through survivors' testimony. The museum opens daily from 9:00 to 17:25 and costs ¥450 for adults.
- [Kakazu Takadai Park](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/kakazu-takadai): Kakazu Takadai Park in Ginowan is a wooded hill where Japanese and American forces fought back and forth in April 1945, and a preserved Japanese pillbox and memorial towers stand below its globe-shaped lookout. The park is free, and its cherry trees bloom from late January to early February.
- [Katsuren Castle](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/katsuren-castle): Katsuren Castle in Uruma is the hilltop fortress where the 15th-century lord Amawari grew rich on overseas trade, and its stepped stone walls rise to 98 m above sea level. Adult entry costs ¥850 including the museum below, and the site opens daily from 9:00 to 18:00.
- [Nakagusuku Castle](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/nakagusuku-castle): Nakagusuku Castle in Nakagusuku village is a ridge-top gusuku where three styles of Ryukyuan stonework stand side by side, and the arched rear gate impressed Commodore Perry's surveyors in 1853. Adult entry costs ¥500, and the site opens every day from 8:30.
- [Nakijin Castle](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/nakijin-castle): Nakijin Castle on the Motobu Peninsula is the ruin of the Hokuzan kings' stronghold, with stone walls that snake for several hundred metres along a ridge about 100 m above sea level. Adult entry costs ¥1,000, and from mid-January to early February its Taiwan cherry trees draw crowds to one of Okinawa's favourite blossom spots.
- [Okinawa Peace Memorial Park](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/peace-memorial-park): The Okinawa Peace Memorial Park at Mabuni in Itoman stands where the Battle of Okinawa's organized fighting ended in June 1945, and its Cornerstone of Peace carries 242,659 names of the dead of every nationality as of 23 June 2026. The park is free, and the Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum inside costs ¥300 for adults.
- [Sakima Art Museum](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/sakima-art-museum): The Sakima Art Museum in Ginowan shows Iri Maruki and Toshi Maruki's 4 m by 8.5 m painting The Battle of Okinawa on permanent display, on land the founder's family won back from a US base. Adult admission is ¥900, and the museum opens 9:30–17:00 except Tuesdays.
- [Sefa-utaki](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/sefa-utaki): Sefa-utaki in Nanjo is the most sacred site of the Ryukyu Kingdom, a forest of six prayer spaces where the kingdom's chief priestess was installed, and it remains a place of worship. Adult entry is ¥600 from 1 October 2026, tickets are sold at the Nanjo City Regional Products Center, and the site closes to everyone for three days at the start of the fifth and tenth lunar months.
- [Shikinaen](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/shikinaen): Shikinaen in Naha is the garden villa that the Ryukyu royal family completed in 1799 to entertain envoys from China, and its pavilions around a spring-fed pond were rebuilt after 1945. It opens 9:00–17:30 from October to March and closes on Wednesdays.
- [Shimuku-gama](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/shimuku-gama): Shimuku-gama in Hanza, Yomitan, is the cave where about 1,000 villagers sheltered when US forces landed on 1 April 1945, and around a thousand came out alive after two older men who had lived in Hawaii persuaded them to surrender. It is a natural cave that can flood after rain, and the local museum leads guided walks there.
- [Shuri Castle](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/shuri-castle): Shuri Castle in Naha was the royal seat of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the main hall that burned on 31 October 2019 reopens to the public at noon on 23 November 2026. From that day an adult ticket costs ¥1,000, and going inside the Seiden needs a timed reservation that costs nothing extra.
- [Sonohyan-utaki Stone Gate](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/sonohyan-utaki): The Sonohyan-utaki Stone Gate on the approach to Shuri Castle is the 1519 shrine where Ryukyu's kings prayed for a safe journey before leaving the castle, and it stands free to see between the Shureimon and Kankaimon gates. The gate is where people pray, and the grove behind it is the sacred precinct.
- [Tamaudun](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/tamaudun): Tamaudun in Shuri is the stone mausoleum that King Sho Shin built in 1501 for his father Sho En, and it holds the kings of the second Sho dynasty in three chambers carved to look like a timber palace. It opens 9:00–18:00 every day, a short walk west of Shuri Castle.
- [Tsushima-maru Memorial Museum](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/tsushima-maru-memorial-museum): The Tsushima-maru Memorial Museum in Wakasa, Naha, remembers the evacuation ship that a US submarine sank on 22 August 1944. The names of 1,484 victims are known, and 1,040 of them were 15 or younger. Adult admission is ¥500, and the museum closes on Thursdays.
- [US military bases in Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/us-bases): US military bases cover 18,668 ha of Okinawa, 8.2% of the prefecture's land and 14.6% of Okinawa's main island, and the prefecture holds 70.3% of the land used exclusively by US forces in Japan (prefectural figures as of 1 January 2025). For visitors they show up as long fences and aircraft overhead in the centre of the main island, and as the long dispute over moving Futenma to Henoko.
- [Zakimi Castle](https://rideokinawa.com/culture/zakimi-castle): Zakimi Castle in Yomitan is a free, open-air gusuku that the builder Gosamaru raised in the early 15th century, with curving limestone walls 365 m around and arch gates locked by keystones. Entry to the ruins costs nothing, and the Yuntanza Museum at the gate (¥500 for adults from outside Yomitan) tells the castle's story.

## Food and drink
- [Agu pork](https://rideokinawa.com/food/agu-pork): Agu is Okinawa's native black pig, descended from Chinese pigs brought to the Ryukyus around the end of the 14th century, and its tender, fatty meat goes into shabu-shabu, soba and grills across the main island. Pork sold under the hiragana brand あぐー comes from pigs with at least 50% Agu blood.
- [Ashitibichi (pig's trotters)](https://rideokinawa.com/food/ashitibichi): Ashitibichi is pig's trotter simmered for about three and a half hours with knotted kombu and daikon until the meat slides off the bone, and Okinawans eat it as a stew, on soba as tebichi soba and in Okinawan oden. MAFF records it as a former court dish that became everyday food.
- [Beni-imo (purple sweet potato)](https://rideokinawa.com/food/beni-imo): Beni-imo is Okinawa's purple-fleshed sweet potato, and it colours the islands' best-known sweets, from the beni-imo tart first baked in Yomitan in 1986 to purple sata andagi and Blue Seal ice cream. The sweet potato itself reached Okinawa from Fujian in 1605 and stayed the islands' staple until after the Second World War.
- [Blue Seal ice cream](https://rideokinawa.com/food/blue-seal): Blue Seal is Okinawa's own ice cream, born in 1948 as a Foremost dairy plant on a US base to supply American troops, and its Okinawan flavours include beni-imo, salt chinsuko, shikuwasa sherbet and kokuto. The main store has stood in Makiminato, Urasoe, since 1963.
- [Champuru](https://rideokinawa.com/food/champuru): Champuru is the Okinawan home stir-fry of firm shima-dofu island tofu with a vegetable, and goya champuru is its best-known version. Okinawan cooks keep the name for stir-fries built on tofu and use other words for dishes without it.
- [Chinsuko](https://rideokinawa.com/food/chinsuko): Chinsuko is Okinawa's crumbly shortbread of wheat flour, sugar and lard, first made for the Ryukyu royal court and now the island's standard souvenir in individually wrapped bars. The Arakaki (新垣) family opened Okinawa's first sweet shop to sell it in 1908.
- [Fu champuru](https://rideokinawa.com/food/fu-champuru): Fu champuru is an Okinawan stir-fry of kurumabu wheat-gluten rings soaked in egg and fried with vegetables, and Naha shokudo serve it as a soft, savoury set meal. Cooks keep the champuru name even when they leave the tofu out.
- [Goya champuru](https://rideokinawa.com/food/goya-champuru): Goya champuru is a stir-fry of bitter goya melon with firm island tofu, egg and pork or Spam, and it is the dish MAFF calls one of Okinawa's most representative home meals. Okinawa grew 6,247 tonnes of goya in 2018, more than twice the crop of Miyazaki in second place.
- [Inamuruchi](https://rideokinawa.com/food/inamuruchi): Inamuruchi is a thick, sweet white-miso soup of pork belly, konnyaku, shiitake and kamaboko, and its name means 'mock boar' because pork replaced the wild boar of the original. It is a Ryukyu court celebration dish that Okinawans still eat at lunar new year and school ceremonies.
- [Irabu-jiru (sea snake soup)](https://rideokinawa.com/food/irabu-jiru): Irabu-jiru is a Ryukyu court soup of smoked, dried sea krait simmered for days with pork, kombu and island tofu, and Okinawans have long eaten it as a restorative after childbirth or illness. Very few restaurants still cook it, and the black-banded sea krait is now listed as Near Threatened by Okinawa Prefecture and as Vulnerable by Japan's Ministry of the Environment.
- [Ishigaki beef](https://rideokinawa.com/food/ishigaki-beef): Ishigaki beef is Japanese Black wagyu raised in the Yaeyama Islands for about 20 months or more, with a yield grade of A or B and a quality grade of 2 to 5 under JA Okinawa's brand rules, and most of it is eaten on Ishigaki itself. It made its name as the main course of the July 2000 Kyushu-Okinawa G8 Summit banquet.
- [Jimami tofu](https://rideokinawa.com/food/jimami-tofu): Jimami tofu is a smooth, springy Okinawan 'tofu' made from peanut milk set with sweet-potato starch, served chilled with a sweet soy and dashi sauce and grated ginger. It contains no soybeans, and MAFF classes it with Buddhist shojin cooking.
- [Juushii](https://rideokinawa.com/food/juushii): Juushii is Okinawan seasoned rice cooked in pork broth with diced pork belly, and most soba shops sell a small bowl of it beside the noodles. Cooks make it two ways: kufa-juushii is firm and cooked like a pilaf, and yafara-juushii is a soft rice porridge that families eat in winter.
- [Kokuto (Okinawan black sugar)](https://rideokinawa.com/food/kokuto): Kokuto is Okinawa's black sugar, made by boiling down pure sugarcane juice without removing the molasses, and the Okinawa Kokuto cooperative's mark goes only on sugar from eight small island factories, on Iheya, Ie-jima, Aguni, Tarama, Kohama, Iriomote, Hateruma and Yonaguni. Each island's sugar looks and tastes different.
- [Mimiga (pig's ear)](https://rideokinawa.com/food/mimiga): Mimiga is boiled pig's ear skin sliced thin and dressed, most often as mimiga sashimi in a peanut and vinegar sauce, and its texture is chewy and crunchy like cartilage. Supermarkets and markets in Okinawa sell it ready-sliced, and izakaya serve it as a side to drink with.
- [Miyako soba](https://rideokinawa.com/food/miyako-soba): Miyako soba is the Miyako-jima style of Okinawa soba, with thin, flat, straight noodles in a light bonito broth and the pork traditionally hidden under the noodles. Most Hirara shops now put the toppings on top, and a few still bury them.
- [Motobu beef](https://rideokinawa.com/food/motobu-beef): Motobu beef is Japanese Black wagyu that Motobu Farm raises in Yanbaru on the north of Okinawa's main island, and the cattle eat fermented lees from Orion beer. You eat it at the company's own yakiniku restaurants in Motobu, Nago and Naha, and the Motobu tourism association credits the beer-lees feed with a sweet edge to the fat.
- [Mozuku](https://rideokinawa.com/food/mozuku): Mozuku is a slippery brown seaweed that Okinawa farms in shallow coastal water, and the prefecture grows more than 90% of Japan's supply. Okinawans eat it in sweet vinegar, deep-fried as mozuku tempura and kneaded into soba noodles.
- [Muuchii](https://rideokinawa.com/food/muuchii): Muuchii is a sticky rice-flour cake sweetened with kokuto and steamed inside a shell-ginger leaf, made for Muuchii day on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month to ward off misfortune and pray for children's health. Supermarkets and markets on Okinawa Island sell it around that date, and by our calculation the next one falls on 15 January 2027.
- [Nakami-jiru](https://rideokinawa.com/food/nakami-jiru): Nakami-jiru is a clear Okinawan soup of pork stomach and intestines in pork and bonito stock, scrubbed and boiled so many times that it tastes light, and it is the soup of New Year, celebrations and memorial services. Ryukyu-cuisine restaurants and some izakaya serve it all year.
- [Okinawa soba](https://rideokinawa.com/food/okinawa-soba): Okinawa soba is the everyday noodle soup of the islands, made from wheat noodles with no buckwheat in a broth of pork bone and katsuobushi bonito, and shops across the prefecture serve it all year. It carries soba in its name because the Fair Trade Commission approved Honba Okinawa soba as a special case on 17 October 1978.
- [Pork tamago onigiri](https://rideokinawa.com/food/pork-tamago-onigiri): Pork tamago onigiri is an Okinawan rice parcel of fried luncheon meat and a thin omelette wrapped in nori, sold in konbini across Okinawa and at specialist counters such as Pork Tamago Onigiri in Naha's Makishi market. It grew out of pork tamago, the postwar diner plate of Spam-style 'pork' and egg.
- [Rafute](https://rideokinawa.com/food/rafute): Rafute is skin-on pork belly simmered for hours in awamori, soy sauce, sugar and bonito stock until the skin cuts with chopsticks, and it is the signature pork dish of Ryukyu cuisine. Okinawan restaurants serve it in thick cubes, and MAFF's recipe takes six to seven hours from start to finish.
- [Sata andagi](https://rideokinawa.com/food/sata-andagi): Sata andagi is Okinawa's fried sugar doughnut, a dense ball of flour, egg and sugar that cracks open in the oil like a laughing mouth, and MAFF calls it the most popular sweet in the prefecture. Market stalls in Naha fry it all day, plain or made with kokuto black sugar.
- [Shima-dofu (island tofu)](https://rideokinawa.com/food/shima-dofu): Shima-dofu is Okinawa's firm island tofu, made by squeezing raw soy milk before cooking and setting it with seawater or nigari, and supermarkets sell it warm in plastic bags on the day it is made. It is firm enough to tear and fry, which is why champuru depends on it.
- [Soki soba](https://rideokinawa.com/food/sooki-soba): Soki soba is a bowl of Okinawa soba with braised pork spare ribs on top, and Okinawans call the ribs soki. Gabusoka Shokudo in Nago opened in 1966 and describes itself as the original soki soba restaurant.
- [Sukugarasu tofu](https://rideokinawa.com/food/sukugarasu-tofu): Sukugarasu tofu is a block of firm Okinawan island tofu topped with a row of salt-fermented baby rabbitfish, and izakaya serve it as a small, very salty plate to go with awamori. You eat a fish whole with a bite of tofu.
- [Taco rice](https://rideokinawa.com/food/taco-rice): Taco rice is seasoned taco mince, shredded cheese, lettuce and tomato piled on white rice with salsa, invented in 1984 at Parlor Senri in Kin, outside the gate of the US Marine Corps' Camp Hansen. The King Tacos chain grew out of that counter and keeps its main shop in Kin.
- [Umibudo (sea grapes)](https://rideokinawa.com/food/umibudo): Umibudo (sea grapes) is the seaweed Caulerpa lentillifera, whose strands of tiny green beads pop in the mouth, and Okinawa farms most of Japan's supply in land-based tanks. You eat it raw with a vinegar-soy dip, dressed at the last moment so the beads stay firm.
- [Yaeyama soba](https://rideokinawa.com/food/yaeyama-soba): Yaeyama soba is the Ishigaki and Yaeyama style of Okinawa soba, with thin, round, straight noodles in a slightly sweet pork-bone broth, topped with strips of soy-simmered pork and kamaboko. You season it at the table with ground island long pepper, which Yaeyama calls pipaatsu.
- [Yushi-dofu](https://rideokinawa.com/food/yushi-tofu): Yushi-dofu is the soft, loose curd of Okinawan island tofu taken before it is pressed, and shops serve it warm in a bowl of light broth or ladled over noodles as yushi-dofu soba. Tofu makers sell it from early morning, and Takaesu Soba in Urasoe is known for the soba version.
- [Okinawa zenzai](https://rideokinawa.com/food/zenzai): Okinawa zenzai is a mound of shaved ice over sweet simmered kintoki beans, often with shiratama rice dumplings, and zenzai shops in Naha, Motobu and on the islands serve it all year. Mainland Japan uses the same word for a hot sweet bean soup.

## Restaurants, cafés and bars
- [Aka Fisheries Co-op Store](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/aka-fisheries-coop-store): The Aka Fisheries Co-op Store sits a short walk from Aka Port and sells ¥1,000 bowls of marlin and squid on weekdays from 9:30 until they run out.
- [Akaishi Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/akaishi-shokudo): Akaishi Shokudo in Ishigaki's far north, near the Hirakubo peninsula, is a Yaeyama soba stop known for heaped vegetable soba, and it opens only Thursday to Saturday, 10:30–15:00.
- [Akamine Pine En](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/akamine-pine-en): Akamine Pine En is a pineapple farm stand in Nakandakari on Kume-jima's north side that opens 9:00–18:30 and sells juice at ¥400; outside the fruit season it sells juice only.
- [Ao no Umi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/ao-no-umi-zamami): Ao no Umi is an izakaya in Zamami village for island dishes such as nakami-irichi and somen champuru, and it opens 18:00–23:00 except Mondays; reviewers say a booking is required.
- [Aoi Sango Sho](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/aoi-sango-sho): Aoi Sango Sho is a 66-seat mozuku soba restaurant three minutes' walk from Yoron airport, open 11:00–15:00 every day the weather allows, where the noodles contain no buckwheat.
- [AOSORA PARLOR](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/aosora-parlor): AOSORA PARLOR is a container smoothie stand just over the Kurima Ohashi on Kurima island.
- [Arakaki Zenzai-ya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/arakaki-zenzai): Arakaki Zenzai-ya in Toguchi, Motobu, sells Okinawan zenzai (shaved ice heaped over sweet beans) for ¥350 a bowl in 2026, from noon until it sells out, Tuesday to Sunday.
- [Farmers Market Miyako Atarasu Ichiba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/atarasu-ichiba): Farmers Market Miyako Atarasu Ichiba is the JA farmers market in Nishizato, Hirara, about five minutes from Miyako Airport, and it sells island fruit and umibudo.
- [A&W Makiminato](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/aw-makiminato): A&W Makiminato is the Urasoe branch of Okinawa's American burger chain, open every day from 6:00 to 2:00 the next morning. Order the A&W Burger and a root beer.
- [Awamori Soko](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/awamori-soko): Awamori Soko is a members' awamori bar on the fourth floor of the Kume Hachibankan building in Naha's Kume district, and it keeps more than 800 awamori on hand. Visitors book ahead by phone or LINE, and the all-inclusive course costs ¥7,700.
- [Awanami Saketen](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/awanami-saketen): Awanami Saketen is a liquor shop in Hateruma village, 16 minutes' walk from the port, that sells the island's scarce awamori Awanami one small bottle per person when stock allows.
- [Umino Eki Ayahashi-kan](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/ayahashi-kan): Umino Eki Ayahashi-kan is the roadside market at the midpoint of the Kaichu Doro sea road in Uruma, open every day from 9:00 to 17:30 with 300 parking spaces. Its snack counter sells mozuku tempura and Blue Seal ice cream.
- [Backshore Ranch](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/backshore-ranch): Backshore Ranch is a sea-view pizza café in Shimajiri at Kume-jima's southern tip that opens 10:00–15:30 from Wednesday to Sunday, and its garlic-shrimp pizza cost ¥1,800 in 2026.
- [Beer Garden Kokkyo (Hate)](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/beer-garden-border): Beer Garden Kokkyo is a Sonai izakaya on Yonaguni known for marlin karaage made from fish landed at Kubura, open for dinner except Thursdays and one of the few places serving on Sunday nights.
- [Craft Beer Pub Beer Rize](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/beer-rize): Beer Rize is a craft-beer pub in Chatan's Sunabe district with 11 Japanese beers on draught, including the Okinawan brewery Wolf Bräu, open 18:00 to 24:00. It closes on Mondays and Tuesdays.
- [Benriya Yuriron](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/benriya-yuriron): Benriya Yuriron is a handmade-gyoza counter about 150 m from Yui Rail Asato Station inside Naha's Sakaemachi Market, and Rurubu credits it with starting the market's evening drinking. It opens 17:00–23:00 except Sundays and takes cash only.
- [Blue Seal Makiminato](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/blue-seal-makiminato): Blue Seal Makiminato is the main store of Okinawa's own ice-cream maker in Urasoe, serving soft-serve, scoops, parfaits and floats with its own car park. The company's ICE DREAM truck parks in the same lot and sells apple pie à la mode.
- [Blue Turtle Farm Mango Cafe](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/blue-turtle-farm-mango-cafe): Blue Turtle Farm Mango Cafe sits a minute from Miyako Airport and serves desserts built on its own Miyako mangoes.
- [BOB's CAFE](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/bobs-cafe): BOB's CAFE serves burgers and curry beside Kohama port from 11:00 to 15:00 until the food runs out, which makes it a quick lunch before or after the boat.
- [Boo no Ie](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/boo-no-ie): Boo no Ie is a small café in Funauki, the village with no road on Iriomote's south-west coast; it sits three minutes' walk from the ferry pier and serves a wild-boar menu from 9:00 to 17:00.
- [Bottle Palm Garden](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/bottle-palm-garden): Bottle Palm Garden on Sesoko island opens at 8:00 daily for acai bowls and agu pork sandwiches in a garden hung with hammocks under bottle palms.
- [Boulangerie Café Yamashita](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/boulangerie-cafe-yamashita): Boulangerie Café Yamashita is a natural-yeast bakery café on Henza-jima, open 11:00 to 19:00 from Saturday to Tuesday, and its nuchi anpan fills bread with bean paste cooked in Nuchima-su salt and Tarama black sugar. It also makes pizza and a vegan curry.
- [Cafe and Bar SUNRISE](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/cafe-bar-sunrise-kumejima): Cafe and Bar SUNRISE opened in the Eef Beach strip on Kume-jima on 30 June 2025 and runs from noon to midnight, with garlic shrimp made from Kumejima prawns and a full bar.
- [Cafe Kokuu](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/cafe-kokuu): Cafe Kokuu in Moshi, Nakijin, serves macrobiotic lunch sets of island vegetables and brown rice from Tuesday to Saturday and takes cash only.
- [Cafe Shimamun+](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/cafe-shimamun): Cafe Shimamun+ is a 14-seat Italian dinner spot in Aharen on Tokashiki-jima that opens 18:00–22:00 except Wednesdays and Thursdays, and you need to book.
- [Cafe Yabusachi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/cafe-yabusachi): Cafe Yabusachi is a lunch café above Hyakuna Beach in Tamagusuku, Nanjo, whose big windows look over the sea; Nanjo's listing prices its plate lunch at ¥1,500, it offers vegan and gluten-free food, and it closes on Wednesdays.
- [Cafe Yukuruya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/cafe-yukuruya): Cafe Yukuruya is the tourism association's café inside Blue Yukuru-kan at Zamami Port, and it opens 9:00–16:45, which makes it the dry place to wait for a ferry on a rough day.
- [Cafe Cahaya Bulan](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/cahaya-bulan): Cafe Cahaya Bulan in Bise, Motobu, opens at 7:30 every day for pancakes and poke bowls on a terrace that looks across the water to Ie-jima.
- [Charlie's Tacos](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/charlies-tacos): Charlie's Tacos on Koza's Park Avenue has served tacos for more than 50 years, and Okinawa City calls it the island's first taco specialist. It opens 11:00 to 21:00 and closes on Thursdays, except public holidays.
- [Chatan Harbor Brewery & Restaurant](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/chatan-harbor-brewery): Chatan Harbor Brewery & Restaurant brews its own Chatan Beer on the waterfront at Mihama in Chatan and serves American-grill seafood and meat from 17:00 to 22:00. It also runs catamaran sunset cruises from the dock outside.
- [Chii-tu-dokoro Fukuya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/chiitu-dokoro-fukuya): Fukuya is a shaved-ice shop in Nakadomari on Kume-jima's west side that opens 10:00–19:00 except Tuesdays, and its kakigori cost ¥650 in 2026.
- [Chirorin Mura](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/chirorin-mura): Chirorin Mura is a café-bar at the south end of Taketomi village that stays open until midnight, which makes it the late-night option for anyone sleeping on the island.
- [COFFEE potohoto](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/coffee-potohoto): COFFEE potohoto is a specialty coffee roaster about 140 m from Yui Rail Asato Station inside Naha's Sakaemachi Market, and Q Grader Yamada Tetsushi has run it since 2006. It opens 10:00–18:00, closes on Sundays and seats two at the counter plus a bench.
- [coral port Grab&Go](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/coral-port-grab-and-go): coral port Grab&Go is the café in the check-in hall of the Miyako Shimojishima Airport terminal on Shimoji, and non-flyers can use it.
- [Coyote](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/coyote-kohama): Coyote is a café at Kohama port that serves gelato and Yaeyama soba from 9:00 to 18:00, and it covers the wait before a boat.
- [Daiwa Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/daiwa-shokudo): Daiwa Shokudo serves Miyako soba and diner plates to a mixed crowd of locals and visitors on Nishizato in central Hirara.
- [Densa Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/densa-shokudo): Densa Shokudo is a small Yaeyama soba counter one minute's walk from Iriomote's Uehara port, open from 11:30 every day except Wednesday, where reviewers spend under ¥1,000.
- [Dining Hanabusa](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/dining-hanabusa): Dining Hanabusa is a Yaeyama soba restaurant in Shiraho village near New Ishigaki Airport that makes its own noodles and serves lunch only from Friday to Sunday.
- [Duguiwari](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/duguiwari): Duguiwari is an evening creative-cuisine restaurant in Yonaguni's main village of Sonai, about six minutes by car from the airport, open 18:00–24:00 except Sundays, and it takes same-day bookings only.
- [Eiko Sengyo-ten](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/eiko-sengyo): Eiko Sengyo-ten is a fishmonger's izakaya in Shinei-cho, west of Ishigaki's town centre, that serves the day's island fish as sashimi and tempura from 17:00 and closes on Sundays.
- [Emi no Mise](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/emi-no-mise): Emi no Mise in Ogimi serves longevity sets of island vegetables from its own fields, by reservation only, and closes Tuesday to Thursday.
- [Fuchi Nu Pan](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/fuchi-nu-pan): Fuchi Nu Pan is a bakery in Nakadomari on Kume-jima that opens at 7:00 every day, with sandwiches from about ¥450 and QR-code payment.
- [Fujiya Tomari Honten](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/fujiya-tomari): Fujiya Tomari Honten is a zenzai specialist in Tomari, Naha, that shaves ice frozen from its own bean-cooking liquid so the dessert stays sweet as it melts. It opens 10:00–19:00 every day, and zenzai started at ¥520 in September 2026.
- [Fukaki Soba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/fukaki-soba): Fukaki Soba in Uruma's Uken district makes Okinawa soba without chemical seasoning, from a broth of Okinawan fish, and opens from 11:00 until sold out. Bowls cost ¥800, or ¥900 large; it takes cash only and closes on Wednesdays.
- [Fukugi Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/fukugi-shokudo): Fukugi Shokudo is the dining room of the red-tiled inn Fukugi-ya in Tonaki village, and it serves island home cooking and soba at lunch and dinner except Sundays; phone ahead.
- [Fukugi-ya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/fukugi-ya): Fukugi-ya at the entrance to the Bise fukugi lanes serves Okinawan home cooking in a converted old house at lunch only, 11:30–14:30, and closes on Thursdays.
- [Funakura no Sato](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/funakura-no-sato): Funakura no Sato is a Yaeyama regional-cuisine restaurant in old-house style on the west side of Ishigaki town that serves set dinners with sanshin music and soba at lunch, and it closes on Wednesdays.
- [Fushikubu Café](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/fushikubu-cafe): Fushikubu Café sits upstairs in the HEAD LINE tourist information office at Cape Hedo, at the northern tip of Okinawa Island, and looks out toward Yoron and the Asumui peaks.
- [fuu cafe](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/fuu-cafe): fuu cafe on Sesoko island serves taco rice and agu pork bowls for lunch five days a week in a log-cabin building in the woods, and turns into a bar and grill on weekend nights.
- [Taketomi-jima Garden Asahi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/garden-asahi): Garden Asahi is a lunch and dinner restaurant in a renovated red-tiled house on the road to Taketomi's Nishi pier, and it is best known for nankotsu soki soba.
- [Garden Kitchen and Café Gusuku](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/garden-kitchen-gusuku): Garden Kitchen and Café Gusuku is a small lunch café in Uegusuku on Kume-jima's hilly north that serves set meals and Kume soba from 11:30 to 14:00 on irregular days; phone first.
- [Trattoria Bar Geruma gnon](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/geruma-gnon): Geruma gnon is a one-person Italian trattoria on Geruma-jima that cooks island fish and its own vegetables by reservation, with lunch from ¥3,200 and a ¥7,500 dinner course.
- [Goya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/goya): Goya on Nishizato in Hirara is an awamori izakaya with a live sanshin set most nights and a full house by seven.
- [Grand Bleu Gamin](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/grand-bleu-gamin): Grand Bleu Gamin is a French auberge in Nikadori, north of Hirara, and one of the most expensive dinners on Miyako-jima.
- [Guitar Lounge Alhambra](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/guitar-lounge-alhambra): Guitar Lounge Alhambra is a Latin bar in Koza's Uechi district, more than 50 years old, with live acoustic music every night from 20:00 to 2:00. It closes on Tuesdays.
- [Gushikawa Soba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/gushikawa-soba): Gushikawa Soba is a soba and Okinawan-food shop in Uruma's Ota district that locals have used for about 30 years, open 11:00 to 14:30 and closed on Tuesdays. Sets start at ¥800, cash only.
- [Akajima Cafe and Gohan guu guu](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/guu-guu-akajima): Guu guu is a ten-seat café in Aka village that one owner has run alone since 2021, known for a chicken plate limited to 20 a week; it takes no reservations.
- [Gyokyo Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/gyokyo-shokudo): Gyokyo Shokudo is the Yonaguni fishing co-operative's own lunch diner at Kubura port, and it serves the local catch from 11:00 to 14:00 except on Tuesdays.
- [HaaYa nagomi-cafe](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/haaya-nagomi-cafe): HaaYa nagomi-cafe sits in the middle of Taketomi village near Nagomi-no-to and serves drinks and light Okinawan dishes from 10:30 to 16:30.
- [Hama-no-Ya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/hama-no-ya): Hama-no-Ya is a beachside café on the south coast of Tamagusuku, Nanjo, that opens at 8:00 every day, and its windows open straight onto the sand and the reef flats below Route 331.
- [Hamaya Soba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/hamaya-soba): Hamaya Soba is the Okinawa soba shop on Chatan's Sunabe seafront, open 10:00 to 17:30 with a large Hamaya soba at ¥950. It seats 70 in a non-smoking room with wheelchair access.
- [Hanagasa Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/hanagasa-shokudo): Hanagasa Shokudo is a classic Okinawan diner off Heiwa-dori in Makishi, Naha, that serves set meals of about ¥1,000–1,250 (2026) at lunch only, 11:00–14:00. It closes on Thursdays and takes cash only.
- [Oshokuji-dokoro Hanakume](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/hanakume): Hanakume is a lunch diner in the Eef Beach strip on Kume-jima with kuruma-ebi tempura sets from about ¥950 and an English picture menu.
- [Hau Tree](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/hau-tree-gelato): Hau Tree is a gelato shop two streets behind Euglena Mall that mixes fruit into gelato on a marble slab chilled to −20 °C; Tabelog named it one of Japan's 100 best ice cream shops in 2023 and 2026, and it closes for December and January.
- [Shima Cafe Heart Land](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/heart-land-kuroshima): Shima Cafe Heart Land sits just up from Kuroshima port with a view of the sea, and it serves soba and ice cream tempura and rents bicycles from the first boat to the last.
- [Hedo-misaki Koyo Parlor](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/hedo-koyo-parlor): Koyo Parlor is the takeaway snack stand by the car park at Cape Hedo, and OpenStreetMap mappers surveyed it in January 2026.
- [Helios Pub Craft Beer & Rum](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/helios-pub-kumoji): Helios Pub pours Helios Shuzo's Nago-made beer and rum in the Ryubo Food Hall on the second floor of Palette Kumoji. A walkway links that floor to Yui Rail Kencho-mae Station, and the pub has run 11:00–23:00 every day except New Year's Day since it opened on 1 November 2025.
- [Hirochan](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/hirochan): Hirochan is a local diner inside the Shigira Resort area in Miyaguni that serves soki soba and island stir-fries from 11:00 to 21:00.
- [Hisamatsu Seimenjo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/hisamatsu-seimenjo): Hisamatsu Seimenjo is a Miyako noodle factory in Kugai that serves fresh soba for two hours each morning, from 7:00 to 9:00.
- [Hitoshi Honten](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/hitoshi-honten): Hitoshi Honten is a tuna-led izakaya in Shinei-cho, Ishigaki, with more than 1,200 Tabelog reviews, and Tabelog has named it one of western Japan's 100 best izakaya each year from 2024 to 2026; it takes cash only.
- [Hoshizuna Tei](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/hoshizuna-tei): Hoshizuna Tei is a small diner by Hoshizuna beach on Iriomote where local women cook island set meals and beef broth soba at lunch and early dinner from Monday to Saturday.
- [Hungry Angry](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/hungry-angry-kadena): Hungry Angry is a Hawaiian malasada stand inside Michi-no-Eki Kadena, open 11:00 to 17:00 or until sold out, and its purple-sweet-potato malasada won a special prize at the Michi-1 Grand Prix 2025.
- [Ichitaka](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/ichitaka): Ichitaka is a large dinner restaurant in Uehara on Iriomote that bakes pizza in a stone oven and cooks island fish, wild boar, pineapple and mango, with a free evening shuttle to most hotels.
- [iconoma](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/iconoma): iconoma is a small café near Iko pier in north-east Kuroshima that opens from 12:00 to 17:00 and closes on Wednesdays.
- [Iiyanbee](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/iiyanbee): Iiyanbee is a roadside zenzai stand on Route 331 at Tedokon in Sashiki, Nanjo, that serves Okinawan bean-and-ice zenzai from ¥300 (Nanjo listing) in the afternoons and closes on irregular days.
- [Ijima Kanko Service](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/ijima-kanko-service): Ijima Kanko Service runs a beach-house soba counter at Toguchi no Hama on Irabu, and local dive and SUP guides send their clients here.
- [Ikema Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/ikema-shokudo): Ikema Shokudo is a fishermen's lunch counter in the Yabiji Center on Ikema harbour, serving island fish as sashimi, tempura or kara-age.
- [Ikemajima gelato cafe Ninufa](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/ikemajima-gelato-ninufa): Ikemajima Gelato Cafe Ninufa looks over the sea toward Ikema's Heart Rock and makes gelato from Miyako ingredients.
- [Irabu Ohashi Umi no Eki Restaurant](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/irabu-ohashi-umi-no-eki): Irabu Ohashi Umi no Eki is the roadside station at the Irabu end of the 3,540 m Irabu Ohashi, and its upstairs soba restaurant looks back along the bridge.
- [Irabu Soba Kame](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/irabu-soba-kame): Irabu Soba Kame in Nagahama is the soba stop on the road to 17END, and reviewers know it for a broth heavy with bonito.
- [Irayoi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/irayoi): Irayoi is a small café in Karimata that faces Nishinohama beach and opens at 8:00, the earliest coffee on the road to Ikema.
- [Irikunyaa Soki Tei](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/irikunyaa-soki-tei): Irikunyaa Soki Tei in Nagahama on western Irabu serves one dish, a bone-in soki pork soup set, and stops at 30 servings a day.
- [Ishigaki Gyu MARU](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/ishigaki-gyu-maru): Ishigaki Gyu MARU has grilled Ishigaki beef in Tonoshiro near the town centre since 2009 and opens from 16:00; it warns diners about a similarly named rival.
- [Ishigaki City Public Market](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/ishigaki-public-market): The Ishigaki City Public Market in the middle of Euglena Mall has fed the town since 1899, with fish, meat, kamaboko and fruit downstairs and an eat-in space added when it reopened on 18 May 2021.
- [Shima no Ushi Ishigaki-ya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/ishigaki-ya): Ishigaki-ya in Maezato, east of the town centre, has grilled Ishigaki beef since 2000 in a dining room of 300-year-old Yoshino cedar under Ryukyu red tiles, and it uses only heifers, according to the city tourism association.
- [IslandBrewing](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/island-brewing): IslandBrewing on Shimozato in Hirara pours Miyako-brewed craft beer from noon to midnight.
- [Itoman Gyomin Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/itoman-gyomin-shokudo): Itoman Gyomin Shokudo is a fishermen's diner in Nishizaki, Itoman, the fishing town south of Naha, that serves lunch and dinner and closes on Tuesdays.
- [Izakaya Agan](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/izakaya-agan): Izakaya Agan is a Yaeyama-style izakaya in Hateruma village, about 15 minutes' walk from the port, open from 18:00 except Sundays and booked out on many nights.
- [Izakaya Bamboo and Cafe Blue](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/izakaya-bamboo): Izakaya Bamboo is an izakaya and inn three minutes' walk from Nishihama beach on Hateruma, open for lunch and dinner except Tuesdays, with its sister Cafe Blue opened in 2026.
- [Izakaya Deiriguchi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/izakaya-deiriguchi): Izakaya Deiriguchi on Nishizato in Hirara is one of the hardest local tables to book, and it cooks Miyako fish in a friendly, noisy room.
- [Izakaya Hyokin](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/izakaya-hyokin): Izakaya Hyokin is a Chabana izakaya 250 m from Yoron's town office, open 17:00–24:00, where the island's Shima Yusen shochu can be bottle-kept and the menu runs from island dishes to Chinese.
- [Izakaya Maruni](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/izakaya-maruni): Izakaya Maruni is an Aharen izakaya with sashimi and island plates at modest prices, and reviewers describe it as one of the few places in the village that opens in the winter off-season.
- [Izakaya Maruti](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/izakaya-maruti): Izakaya Maruti is a fish izakaya on the ground floor of Minshuku Tidan in Kubura, three minutes' walk from Yonaguni's fishing port, open 18:00–22:00 except Thursdays and Sundays.
- [Izakaya Matsunoya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/izakaya-matsunoya): Izakaya Matsunoya in Ota on Kume-jima is a neighbourhood izakaya known for handmade gyoza and ashitebichi, at about ¥3,000–4,000 a person.
- [Izakaya Takeyoshi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/izakaya-takeyoshi): Izakaya Takeyoshi in Nakadomari is a locals' izakaya on Kume-jima that serves kuruma-ebi as sashimi, tempura and salt-grilled, with mobile ordering in English; it closes on Thursdays.
- [Izumi Soba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/izumi-soba): Izumi Soba in the Izumi hills of Motobu opens on weekdays only, 11:00–15:00, and its namesake bowl cost ¥1,000 in 2026.
- [Jack's Steak House](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/jacks-steak-house): Jack's Steak House is a steak house in Nishi, Naha, that opened in 1953 under US administration and still displays its A-sign certificate. It opens 11:00 to about 22:30 except on Wednesdays and takes cash only; tenderloin starts at ¥3,200.
- [Jetta Burger Market](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/jetta-burger-market): Jetta Burger Market is a burger kitchen and café-bar up the stairs of a pink building in Chatan's American Village, open 12:00 to 21:00 and closed on Wednesdays. Parking is in the Depot Island car park.
- [Jirobe Shoten](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/jirobe-shoten): Jirobe Shoten is the beach stand on Ama Beach on Zamami-jima, and it serves taco rice and shaved ice through the day; its off-season hours are not confirmed.
- [Kabira Farm](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kabira-farm): Kabira Farm is a passion fruit farm shop on the road into Kabira that pours its own passion fruit and mango juice from 10:00 to 17:00 and closes on Thursdays and Fridays.
- [Kabira Koen Chaya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kabira-koen-chaya): Kabira Koen Chaya is the teahouse inside Kabira Park above Kabira Bay, and it has served Yaeyama soba and shaved ice since 1961, every day except Thursday.
- [Kaede Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kaede-shokudo): Kaede Shokudo is a village diner beside the Higawa bus stop on Yonaguni's south coast that cooks set meals and azami noodles from 11:00 through the afternoon.
- [Kafushido](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kafushido): Kafushido is a café and bar in an old house with a terrace opposite the 105 Store in Zamami village, and it serves taco rice and curry from noon to 21:00 for cash only.
- [Kaichu Chaya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kaichu-chaya): Kaichu Chaya is the ocean-view café restaurant inside Umino Eki Ayahashi-kan on the Kaichu Doro, open 10:30 to 21:00, and its Okinawa soba uses noodles kneaded with Katsuren mozuku. Soba starts at ¥900.
- [Kaigan-dori](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kaigan-dori): Kaigan-dori is a kissaten near Chabana beach on Yoron, open for lunch and dinner, whose house dishes such as takoyaki curry and Nikoniko rice draw a queue at midday.
- [Kaiho Maru](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kaiho-maru): Kaiho Maru in the Hanasaki Marche complex sits three minutes by car from Churaumi Aquarium and cooks fishermen's set meals from fish bought at the market each morning.
- [Kaimiru](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kaimiru): Kaimiru is the snack and soba stand just after the Ikema Ohashi on Ikema island, and reviewers come for its purple-sweet-potato mochi.
- [Kajinhou](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kajinhou): Kajinhou in Yamazato, Motobu, bakes one kind of pizza in a tile-roofed Ryukyuan house on a clifftop that looks over Motobu town to the islands offshore.
- [Izakaya Kamaitoya (Ohara)](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kamaitoya-ohara): Izakaya Kamaitoya is a wild-boar izakaya seven minutes' walk from Ohara port on Iriomote, open from 18:30 five nights a week, with a free evening pick-up and dinner at about ¥2,000–3,000.
- [Kameshima Pan Maejima](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kameshima-pan-maejima): Kameshima Pan is a neighbourhood bakery in Maejima, Naha, near Tomari port, that opens 6:00–19:00 Monday to Saturday and sold sandwiches from ¥250 in September 2025.
- [Kaisen Ajidokoro Kameyoshi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kameyoshi): Kameyoshi is a seafood restaurant in the Eef Beach strip on Kume-jima that salt-grills kuruma-ebi and serves mozuku at lunch and dinner, with an English menu and card payment; it closes on Tuesdays.
- [Kanifu](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kanifu): Kanifu serves Okinawan lunches on Taketomi daily from 11:00 to 15:30 and takes no cash at all, only cashless payment.
- [Karakara to Chibuguwa](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/karakara-to-chibuguwa): Karakara to Chibuguwa is an awamori bar and Ryukyu dining room about 340 m from Yui Rail Kencho-mae Station in Kumoji, and Mapple says its three awamori meisters pour about 100 labels from every distillery in the prefecture. It opens 18:00–24:00 except Sundays.
- [Izakaya Kayoi Bune](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kayoi-bune): Izakaya Kayoi Bune is a 45-seat Chabana izakaya that fills with Yoron regulars from 17:30 and serves seared nigiri of Yoron wagyu and Amami guinea fowl until midnight.
- [Kikuei Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kikuei-shokudo): Kikuei Shokudo is a long-running local diner near Hirara port that opens at 9:00 for Miyako soba breakfasts.
- [Kimi Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kimi-shokudo): Kimi Shokudo in Tonoshiro is the Ishigaki diner known for miso soba, in which a rich miso broth covers the noodles, and it closes on Thursdays or whenever the soup runs out.
- [King Tacos Kiyuna](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/king-tacos-kiyuna): King Tacos Kiyuna is the Ginowan branch of the taco-rice chain that grew out of the Kin bar where the dish was invented in 1984, open since February 2024. It takes cash only and has a small car park.
- [Kinokawa](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kinokawa): Kinokawa in Kenken, Motobu, is a 20-seat shokudo near the Sesoko Bridge that serves Okinawan set meals Monday to Saturday from 11:00 until 17:00 or sellout.
- [Kishimoto Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kishimoto-shokudo): Kishimoto Shokudo in Toguchi, Motobu, has served Okinawa soba since 1905 and closes on Wednesdays and whenever the noodles run out.
- [Kishimoto Shokudo Yaedake](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kishimoto-shokudo-yaedake): Kishimoto Shokudo's Yaedake branch in Inoha, Motobu, serves the 1905 Toguchi shop's wood-ash soba every day of the week, with its own car park and shorter lines.
- [Ishigaki-jima Kitauchi Bokujo, Hamasaki](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kitauchi-bokujo-hamasaki): Kitauchi Bokujo's Hamasaki flagship is a yakiniku room run by an Ishigaki beef company on the harbour side of town, and it has opened every day for lunch and dinner since June 2024.
- [Kitchen Inaba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kitchen-inaba): Kitchen Inaba is an evening-only island kitchen in Nakano on Iriomote's north coast, within walking distance of the Iriomote Hotel, where dinner runs about ¥4,000–5,000 a person.
- [KLATCH COFFEE](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/klatch-coffee): KLATCH COFFEE in Okawa in central Ishigaki opens daily at 7:00, which makes it one of the earliest breakfasts in town before a ferry or a ride.
- [Koja Sobaya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/koja-sobaya): Koja Sobaya has made Miyako soba in Hirara since 1932 and still makes its own flat noodles by hand.
- [Kominka Ajidokoro Yui](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kominka-ajidokoro-yui): Kominka Ajidokoro Yui near Ie Port serves lunch and dinner in a converted old house above the East China Sea, including soba made with Ie-jima wheat.
- [Kouri-jima no Eki Sorahashi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kouri-jima-no-eki-sorahashi): Kouri-jima no Eki Sorahashi at the island end of the Kouri Bridge gathers a canteen and a run of food stalls around a market and opens 9:00–19:00.
- [Kouri Shrimp](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kouri-shrimp): Kouri Shrimp near the island end of the Kouri Bridge serves garlic shrimp plates from 11:00 to 16:00 every day, with the last hour take-out only.
- [kukuru cafe](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kukuru-cafe): kukuru cafe is a small outdoor café in the Minami hamlet of Hateruma village, a minute south of the Minami co-op store and about 2 km by bicycle from the port, open 10:00–14:00 except Thursdays.
- [Kumejimarl Café](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kumejimarl-cafe): Kumejimarl Café in Maja on Kume-jima's east coast serves blue soft serve and KUMEJIMA612 craft beer made with deep-sea water, and it opens 10:30–16:00 except Wednesdays.
- [Kunatsuyu](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kunatsuyu): Kunatsuyu is a Yaeyama soba specialist about 1 km north of Ishigaki's ferry terminal that serves a light pork-bone broth with juushii rice on the side and opens only four lunchtimes a week.
- [Kunembo Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kunembo-shokudo): Kunembo Shokudo is a reservation-only island kitchen in Ritcho on Yoron, about 1 km from the airport, open four evenings a week and rated the island's best dinner on Tabelog at 3.56.
- [Kuninaka Shoten](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kuninaka-shoten): Kuninaka Shoten is a café and bakery in Kuninaka, Irabu, that opens at 8:00 every day, three minutes from Shimojishima Airport.
- [Kunnatu](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kunnatu): Kunnatu is a mozuku soba shop at the Ojima bridge in Tamagusuku, Nanjo, run by a mozuku farmer, and its ¥970 set (Nanjo listing) comes with free refills of fresh mozuku.
- [Akajima Lunch Kuroneko-maru](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/kuroneko-maru): Kuroneko-maru is a kitchen car that started in 2026 beside Aka's post office, and it sells tuna and squid bowls from ¥1,000 at lunch.
- [La Toquee](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/la-toquee-zamami): La Toquee is a restaurant and bar in Zamami village for seared marlin and awamori cocktails from 18:30 except Tuesdays, with an English menu.
- [Little Kitchen](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/little-kitchen-zamami): Little Kitchen in Zamami village cooks a mixed Thai, Chinese and Italian menu, from green curry to ebi chili, and its dinners book out, so reserve ahead; it closes on Wednesdays.
- [Live House Shimauta](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/live-house-shimauta): Live House Shimauta is a 150-seat music izakaya on the third floor of the Haisai Building on Kokusai-dori, where the Okinawan women's vocal group Nenes plays three sets from 19:00 Thursday to Monday for a ¥2,380 live charge. It closes on Tuesdays.
- [Lunch House Tamago](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/lunch-house-tamago): Lunch House Tamago is a set-meal diner five minutes' walk from Uehara port on Iriomote that serves lunch and an early dinner from Monday to Saturday for about ¥1,000–2,000 a person.
- [Maasaa no Mise](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/maasaa-no-mise): Maasaa no Mise in Aharen makes Okinawa soba with fish powder kneaded into the noodles and serves it at lunch and dinner, with a soba and tuna bowl set at ¥2,000 in 2026.
- [Machigwa Shokudo Dotonbori](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/machigwa-shokudo-dotonbori): Machigwa Shokudo Dotonbori is a diner on the second floor of the rebuilt Daiichi Makishi Public Market in Naha that cooks seafood you buy from the stalls downstairs as well as its own Okinawan menu. It opens 9:00–21:00 and takes cards.
- [Magari Soba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/magari-soba): Magari Soba opened on 29 April 2026 in Magari, between Gima and Eef Beach on Kume-jima, and says it is the only shop on the island serving fresh-noodle Okinawa soba.
- [MAHOWBREW](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/mahowbrew): MAHOWBREW is a craft brewery and 12-seat taproom about 8 minutes' walk from Yui Rail Asato Station on Himeyuri-dori in Naha's Tsuboya pottery district, and Tabelog reviewers know it for sours and IPAs. It opens from 18:00 on weekdays and 15:00 at weekends, and closes on Tuesdays.
- [Maipari Tropical Fruit Garden](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/maipari): Miyakojima Nettai Kajuen Maipari is a tropical fruit orchard and juice café next to Yonaha Maehama beach.
- [Maison de Fujii](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/maison-de-fujii): Maison de Fujii is a small omakase-only restaurant in Naha's Matsuyama district that cooks from a French base and seats everyone at 19:00 for a ¥6,600 course and an optional ¥4,400 wine pairing. Seats open online at midnight one month ahead, and the staff speak no English.
- [Restaurant Marumiya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/marumiya-zamami): Restaurant Marumiya in Zamami village cooks Okinawan set meals at lunch and dinner every day but Wednesday, with sets around ¥1,000 and an English menu.
- [Maruyoshi Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/maruyoshi-shokudo): Maruyoshi Shokudo on Route 390 in Sunagawa near Shigira serves big garlicky soki and tebichi soba from 10:30 until it sells out.
- [Ryukyu Ryori Matsunoshita](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/matsunoshita): Matsunoshita is the Okinawan restaurant upstairs in the Cape Manzamo visitor building in Onna, open from 10:00, and its soki soba with handmade pork ribs is the most-ordered bowl. It also serves mozuku soba and Orion beer.
- [Meedafu's Yui Hostel and Coffee](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/meedafus-yui): Meedafu's Yui is a coffee house and guest house in Chabana on Yoron that opens at 6:00 and serves the island's only breakfast menu, about seven minutes by car from the airport and port.
- [Menya Marusho](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/menya-marusho): Menya Marusho is an Okinawa soba shop in Heshikiya on the Katsuren peninsula, near the Tsuken ferry port, open 11:00 to 14:30 and closed on Thursdays and Fridays. Its Marusho soba piles on several cuts of pork.
- [Mi Maru](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/mi-maru): Mi Maru is an evening izakaya in the eastern part of Hateruma village, near Hotel Oceans, open from 18:00 and one of a handful of places on the island to eat dinner.
- [Michi-no-Eki Itoman](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/michi-no-eki-itoman): Michi-no-Eki Itoman is a large roadside station in Nishizaki, Itoman, open 9:00–20:00 with free parking, where the fisheries co-op's fish market sits beside a JA farmers' market and a local products hall.
- [Michi-no-eki Kyoda (Yanbaru Products Center)](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/michi-no-eki-kyoda): Michi-no-eki Kyoda was Okinawa's first roadside station, and it sits on Route 58 beside the Kyoda interchange in Nago, selling Yanbaru produce and snacks from 8:30 to 19:00.
- [Michi-no-eki Ogimi (Yanbaru no Mori Visitor Center)](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/michi-no-eki-ogimi): Michi-no-eki Ogimi on Route 58 in Tsuha, Ogimi, is a roadside station and Yanbaru forest visitor centre where a café and a produce shop sit below a lookout over the sea to Kouri-jima.
- [Ryukyu Ryori Mie](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/mie): Ryukyu Ryori Mie is a Ryukyu court-cuisine restaurant about 5 minutes' walk from Yui Rail Kencho-mae Station in Kumoji, and it has cooked from Shuri family recipes since 1958. Courses run from ¥3,500 at lunch to ¥18,000 at dinner and are booked by phone only.
- [Mikasa](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/mikasa-matsuyama): Mikasa is an Okinawan shokudo in Matsuyama, Naha, whose Mikasa-style champon cost ¥800 in August 2026. It opens 9:00–21:00 (21:30 on Sundays) and closes on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
- [Milmil Honpo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/milmil-honpo): Milmil Honpo is a gelato shop on the coast road west of Ishigaki town near Kannonzaki that opens every day from 10:00 to 19:00, and Tabelog named it one of Japan's 100 best ice cream shops in 2023 and 2026.
- [Mimi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/mimi-uehara): Mimi is a soba restaurant on Route 215 in Uehara, a few minutes' walk from Iriomote's north-coast port, open 11:00–17:00 and paid in cash.
- [Minaaiya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/minaaiya): Minaaiya is a tofu shop and lunch counter in Yonaha near Maehama that serves freshly made yushi tofu on weekdays only.
- [Minato Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/minato-shokudo): Minato Shokudo near Hirara's Nakadori fishing port made Tabelog's Shokudo 100 list in 2024 and 2026, and its order is bonito-salt soba with sea lettuce.
- [Min'yo Stage Utahime](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/minyo-stage-utahime): Min'yo Stage Utahime is a small Okinawan folk-song bar owned by min'yo singer Ganeko Yoriko, and it reopened at 17-11 Higashimachi in Naha on 11 March 2026 after leaving Kokusai-dori. It opens 19:00–01:00 and charges ¥440 per 30 minutes for the music.
- [Miru Taiyo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/miru-taiyo): Miru Taiyo is a Hirara izakaya where a sanshin player performs every evening from about 19:30 to 20:30, between plates of local fish and island vegetables.
- [Oshokujidokoro Misaki](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/misaki-yoron): Oshokujidokoro Misaki is a mozuku soba and shaved-ice restaurant at the entrance to Akasaki beach in south-east Yoron, about 15 minutes by car from the airport, with summer queues out the door.
- [Misato Soba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/misato-soba): Misato Soba is an Okinawa soba specialist in Okinawa City's Higashi district, open 11:00 to 16:00 or until sold out and closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays. The fuuchiba (mugwort) topping is free.
- [Mitsuya Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/mitsuya-shokudo): Mitsuya Shokudo is a new Miyako soba shop in Nobaru, Ueno, that takes reservations and serves aasa sea-lettuce soba.
- [Miyako Gyu Yakiniku Tamashiro](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/miyako-gyu-yakiniku-tamashiro): Miyako Gyu Yakiniku Tamashiro buys whole Miyako cattle and grills the beef at its Hirara restaurant beside the public market.
- [Miyako Kibi Chaya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/miyako-kibi-chaya): Miyako Kibi Chaya in Karimata presses sugarcane juice to order on the road to the Ikema Ohashi.
- [Tsumande Nomeru Miyako Parlor Haisai!](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/miyako-parlor-haisai): Tsumande Nomeru Miyako Parlor Haisai! on Shimozato-dori is a modern Okinawan izakaya that ranks among the top-rated dinner tables in Miyako on Tabelog.
- [Miyako Soba Ai](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/miyako-soba-ai): Miyako Soba Ai in Koza's Uechi district serves Miyako-style soba from 18:00 until 5:00 the next morning, so it works before a night in Koza or after one. It closes on Sundays and has no car park.
- [Miyako Soba Massugu](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/miyako-soba-massugu): Miyako Soba Massugu in Ueno serves a clear, gentle Miyako soba close to Shigira and the airport, and it takes cards.
- [Miyara Noen](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/miyara-noen): Miyara Noen is a fruit farm parlour west of Ishigaki town where every seat is outdoors, and it serves pineapple juice and guava shaved ice except on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and days of bad weather.
- [Moana Beach House](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/moana-beach-house): Moana Beach House is a beach snack bar in Hama village on Hamahiga-jima, open 11:00 to 19:00 on irregular days, with zenzai and mango shaved ice at ¥500 and Orion on draught. It rents trikes by the hour and has no car park of its own.
- [Moist Roll Cafe](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/moist-roll-cafe): Moist Roll Cafe is a roll-cake café in Kubura on Yonaguni's west coast, open 10:00–17:00, a short walk from the ferry and the Kubura bus stop.
- [Moja no Pan](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/moja-no-pan): Moja no Pan is a small Hirara bakery in Higashinakasone whose anpan sells out before lunch.
- [Monte doll honten　factory &  cafe](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/monte-doll): Monte Doll is a Miyako cake maker whose factory café on Nishizato in Hirara sells its banana cake and soft serve.
- [Mozuku Menya Ntsubata](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/mozuku-menya-ntsubata): Mozuku Menya Ntsubata in central Hirara makes its noodles with mozuku seaweed from local fishermen and serves the seaweed as an all-you-can-eat side.
- [Muuru Cafe](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/muuru-cafe): Muuru Cafe is a 32-seat café on the east coast of Yoron next to the Yurigahama boats that opened in July 2025 and serves island-ingredient lunches from 11:00 to 15:00 except Wednesdays and Thursdays.
- [Ganso Nakamoto Tempura](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/nakamoto-tempura): Ganso Nakamoto Tempura is a fish shop by the Ojima bridge in Nanjo that sells Okinawan tempura from ¥100 a piece, open 10:30–18:00 except on Thursdays.
- [Nakamura Suisan](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/nakamura-suisan-zamami): Nakamura Suisan is a newer seafood bar in Zamami village that serves fish bowls at lunch and dinner, and its fish yukke don cost ¥1,300 in 2026.
- [Nakayoshi Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/nakayoshi-shokudo): Nakayoshi Shokudo is a cheap old-style diner in Shinei-cho, west of Ishigaki's town centre, that serves Yaeyama soba and set meals; Tabelog lists it as closed on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
- [Nakayukui Shoten](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/nakayukui-shoten): Nakayukui Shoten in Kuninaka, Irabu, fries sata andagi-style doughnuts called satapanpin, and the 2026 reviews describe hour-long queues on busy days.
- [Nakijin Ichifuji](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/nakijin-ichifuji): Nakijin Ichifuji in Nakasone, Nakijin, serves a rich pork-bone soba from 11:00 to 15:00, Wednesday to Sunday, and stops when the broth runs out.
- [Nakijin no Eki Sore](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/nakijin-no-eki-sore): Nakijin no Eki Sore in Tamagusuku is Nakijin village's farm market and serves soba and set meals in its dining corner from 10:00 to 18:00, Tuesday to Sunday.
- [Nakijin Soba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/nakijin-soba): Nakijin Soba in Moshi, Nakijin, serves nankotsu soki soba from 10:00 to 16:30 nearly every day, about ten minutes by car from Churaumi Aquarium.
- [Nantou Shokurakuen](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/nantou-shokurakuen): Nantou Shokurakuen is a 23-seat Eef Beach izakaya on Kume-jima known for its local sashimi platter and grilled kuruma-ebi, and it opens from 17:30 except Thursdays; book ahead.
- [Niima Soba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/niima-soba): Niima Soba in Karimata on the road to the Ikema Ohashi runs a morning sign-up board, and reviewers describe it as booked out by mid-morning.
- [Nikuya Shokudo in Henza](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/nikuya-shokudo-henza): Nikuya Shokudo is a beef restaurant in the village on Henza-jima, run by a former Osaka butcher who serves A5 and A4 wagyu as beef cutlets and rice bowls. Lunch runs daily except Thursdays, and dinner only Friday to Sunday.
- [Nishinsuni](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/nishinsuni): Nishinsuni at Ie Beach serves soki soba with ribs that hang over the bowl from 10:30 until 15:00 or sellout, and closes on Wednesdays.
- [Nobare Misaki Kanko Noen](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/nobare-misaki-noen): Nobare Misaki Kanko Noen is a fruit farm café at Tori on Ishigaki's east coast that makes smoothies and parfaits from its own fruit with a sea view; it closes on Thursdays and Fridays.
- [Nuchima-su Restaurant Takahanari](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/nuchimasu-takahanari): Restaurant Takahanari sits upstairs at the Nuchima-su salt factory on Miyagi-jima, serving lunch from 11:00 to 15:30 and café food from 9:00 to 17:30 every day. Its salt soft-serve is the popular order.
- [NUTSTOWN COFFEE ROASTERS](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/nutstown-coffee): NUTSTOWN COFFEE ROASTERS roasts its own coffee in north Okawa, Ishigaki, and serves breakfast every day from 7:00, with croissant sandwiches and croffles.
- [Ohshiro Tempura](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/ohshiro-tempura): Ohshiro Tempura is a tempura shop on Ojima in Nanjo that fries eleven kinds to order, open 11:00–17:45 except on Mondays.
- [Okinawa Soba Marukami](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/okinawa-soba-marukami): Okinawa Soba Marukami on Kurima island is the top-rated soba shop in the Miyako islands on Tabelog, and it runs a morning whiteboard sign-up before its 10:30 opening.
- [Oku Co-op Store](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/oku-kyodo-store): The Oku Co-op Store in Oku, Kunigami, opened in 1906 as the first of Okinawa's village-owned co-op stores and still serves the village near the northern tip of Okinawa Island.
- [Onna no Eki Nakayukui Market](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/onna-no-eki): Onna no Eki Nakayukui Market is the farm market and food hall in Onna's Nakadomari district, open every day from 10:00 to 19:00, where about 1,300 registered growers sell produce and a ring of stalls sells shaved ice and seafood. The operator counts 1.2 million visitors a year.
- [Opyuu Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/opyuu-shokudo): Opyuu Shokudo is the only restaurant on Ogami island, a minute's walk from the ferry landing, and it serves the island's dried octopus over rice.
- [Orion Happy Park](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/orion-happy-park): Orion Happy Park runs guided tours of Orion Beer's Nago brewery, about 10 minutes north of the Kyoda interchange; it closes on Sundays and Mondays and takes online bookings until 16:00 the day before.
- [Oshokuji Dokoro Minna](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/oshokuji-dokoro-minna): Oshokuji Dokoro Minna is a container-style beach parlour a short walk from Minna Beach that serves taco rice and Okinawa soba, though it publishes no hours or season.
- [Oshokujidokoro Arabuchi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/oshokujidokoro-arabuchi): Oshokujidokoro Arabuchi is a soba and set-meal restaurant in Hateruma village, open 10:00–15:00, one of the few places on Japan's southernmost inhabited island to eat lunch.
- [Oshokuji-dokoro Yuki](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/oshokujidokoro-yuki): Oshokuji-dokoro Yuki is a local diner in Torishima on Kume-jima that makes its own noodles and opens 11:00–18:00 except Wednesdays and Fridays, at about ¥1,000 a meal.
- [Paness](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/paness): Paness is Yonaguni's only bakery and a small café in Sonai, about seven minutes by car from the airport, that sells bread from about 8:30 and lunch until 17:00 and closes on Tuesdays.
- [Steak Restaurant Papoiya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/papoiya): Steak Restaurant Papoiya cooks Ishigaki beef steak on the eighth floor of a building in Okawa in Ishigaki's town centre, and Tabelog named it one of its 100 best steak restaurants in western Japan in 2024 and 2025.
- [Parlor Hibiki](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/parlor-hibiki): Parlor Hibiki is a tatami-floored diner in an old house five minutes from Aka Port, and it serves squid-ink soba and bento from 10:00 to 18:30.
- [Parlor Kumi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/parlor-kumi): Parlor Kumi is the soba counter on the ground floor of Kumejima Airport, and it opens 8:00–15:00 every day with a mini soba at ¥500.
- [Parlor Minpika](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/parlor-minpika): Parlor Minpika is a shaved-ice stand on the road between Nishihama and Hateruma village, open 13:30–16:00, three minutes by bicycle from the beach.
- [Parlor Painushima](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/parlor-painushima): Parlor Painushima serves shaved ice in Taketomi village from 10:00 to 17:30 and makes an easy cool-down stop on a bike loop of the island.
- [Parlor Papaya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/parlor-papaya): Parlor Papaya is a roadside juice stand at Yonehara on Ishigaki's north-west coast road that blends fresh fruit and sugarcane juice with no added water or sugar from 8:30; it closes on Wednesdays.
- [Peenushima Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/peenushima-shokudo): Peenushima Shokudo is a soba diner on the north side of Hateruma village, between the village and Nishihama, open 11:00–16:30 and paid in cash.
- [Pinacolada](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/pinacolada): Pinacolada is a small bakery one street back from the Kabira Bay lookout that opens Thursday to Sunday from 9:00 to 13:00, and its breads sell out early.
- [Ploughman's Lunch Bakery](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/ploughmans-lunch-bakery): Ploughman's Lunch Bakery is a hilltop bakery café in Kitanakagusuku's Adaniya district that serves breakfast all day from 9:00 to 16:00, with a terrace looking toward the sea. Its website has not posted news since 2021, so confirm it is open before you go.
- [Pork Tamago Onigiri Makishi Market](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/pork-tamago-onigiri-makishi): Pork Tamago Onigiri's Makishi Market shop in Matsuo, Naha, makes the pork-and-egg rice sandwiches to order from 7:00 to 20:00 every day, and the plain version cost ¥450 on the May 2026 menu.
- [Rakuen no Kajitsu](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/rakuen-no-kajitsu): Rakuen no Kajitsu is a café and restaurant near the Ryugu-jo observatory on Kurima that serves Miyako mango parfaits.
- [Rest House Hoshi no Suna](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/rest-house-hoshi-no-suna): Rest House Hoshi no Suna is a beachside restaurant above Hoshizuna beach on Iriomote's north-west coast, open 12:00–19:00 for curry and lunch plates at about ¥1,000–2,000.
- [Hateruma (Ohara)](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/restaurant-hateruma): Hateruma is a small omakase restaurant four minutes' walk from Ohara port on Iriomote that serves one island-cuisine course from 19:00, Monday to Saturday, at about ¥8,000–10,000 a person.
- [Restaurant Kanaloa](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/restaurant-kanaloa): Restaurant Kanaloa belongs to Hotel Kanaloa by Tokashiki Port and serves non-guests seafood bowls and set meals at lunch and dinner every day.
- [Restaurant Namiji](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/restaurant-namiji): Restaurant Namiji in the Eef Beach strip on Kume-jima is a busy local restaurant for lunch sets and island dinners such as kuruma-ebi sashimi, and it takes cash only and closes on Sundays and Wednesdays.
- [Rikko Gelato](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/rikko-gelato): Rikko Gelato on Shimozato-dori in Hirara makes gelato from Miyako fruit and snow salt, and it ranks as the top-rated sweet shop on Miyako on Tabelog.
- [Rotary Drive-In](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/rotary-drive-in): Rotary Drive-In is a burger counter inside the Michi-no-Eki Kadena roadside station, open 10:00 to 19:00 and closed only on New Year's Day. Its jumbo cheeseburger is the order.
- [RuLer's TACORiCE Makabi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/rulers-tacorice-makabi): RuLer's TACORiCE Makabi is a taco-rice counter in Matsukawa, Naha, that opens 11:00–22:00 (last order 21:30) and lists a basic taco rice from ¥500 and a medium avocado taco rice at ¥880 on its October 2026 menu.
- [Ryotei Naha](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/ryotei-naha): Ryotei Naha is a Ryukyu-cuisine ryotei in Naha's old Tsuji quarter where courses start at ¥6,000 before tax and an optional 25-minute programme of Ryukyu dance and folk song costs extra. Dinner runs 18:00–22:00 and bookings go through its phone line or website.
- [Ryugu Heiwa-dori](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/ryugu-heiwa-dori): Ryugu is a sata-andagi specialist with a café inside the Heiwa-dori arcade in Makishi, Naha, where the Okinawan doughnuts are fried in view and sell from ¥150 each. The shop opens 10:30–18:00 and closes on the third Thursday of the month.
- [Ryugu](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/ryugu-irabu): Ryugu is a reservation-only seafood restaurant in the Irabu settlement that cooks Miyako fish in an ocean-themed room.
- [Sabou Ufuta](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/sabou-ufuta): Sabou Ufuta is a Yaeyama soba house in an old farmhouse at Fukai-Ota on Ishigaki's north-west coast road that serves pork-belly soba from 12:00 to 16:00 on Sundays and Mondays only, according to Tabelog in 2026.
- [Santa](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/santa-zamami): Santa is a Zamami village izakaya known for local sashimi and a good sake list, and it opens 18:00–23:00 except Thursdays; you need to book.
- [Izakaya Sanufa](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/sanufa): Izakaya Sanufa on Kohama serves Okinawan and creative dishes from 17:30 most nights, and it is one of the island's few evening options outside the resorts.
- [Satoukibi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/satoukibi): Satoukibi is an Okinawan dinner restaurant in Kohama village that opens from 18:00 except on Mondays and Sundays, and it has the highest Tabelog rating on the island.
- [Satoya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/satoya-higawa): Satoya is a Yaeyama soba restaurant at the entrance to Higawa village on Yonaguni's south coast, about 15 minutes by car from the airport, and it is known for soba topped with local kuruma prawns.
- [Sawanoya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/sawanoya-motobu): Sawanoya in Toguchi, Motobu, makes its own wood-ash noodles and stews pork rib cartilage soft for the nankotsu soki soba most people come for.
- [Seaside Shokudo MIRA](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/seaside-shokudo-mira): Seaside Shokudo MIRA is the diner inside the Kanegusuku Port ferry terminal on Kume-jima, and it opens for lunch from Tuesday to Sunday with Okinawa soba at ¥900 in 2026.
- [Seikatsu no Gara](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/seikatsu-no-gara): Seikatsu no Gara is a tiny counter bar about 150 m from Yui Rail Asato Station inside Naha's Sakaemachi Market that opens 18:00–01:00 except Tuesdays. The owner decides what to cook that night, and the bar takes no cards and allows smoking.
- [Sennichi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/sennichi): Sennichi is an old zenzai shop in Kume, Naha, that heaps powder-fine shaved ice about 25 cm high over sweet kintoki beans. It opens 11:30–20:00 (19:00 in winter) except on Mondays, and milk kintoki cost ¥650 in July 2026.
- [Señor Taco](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/senor-taco): Señor Taco is a long-running Mexican counter inside the Plaza House shopping centre in Okinawa City, open every day from 10:00 to 22:00 with parking. Its taco shells are crisp outside and chewy inside.
- [Cafe Teedun Shidame-kan](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shidame-kan): Cafe Teedun Shidame-kan faces Nagomi-no-to in the centre of Taketomi village and serves a mozuku soba that won its category at the second Yaeyama soba championship; it closes at weekends.
- [Shikoya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shikoya): Shikoya is a village restaurant and evening izakaya in Hoshidate on Iriomote's west coast, one minute's walk from the Hoshidate bus stop, and it serves Yaeyama soba at lunch and island food late into the night.
- [Ogimi Shikuwasa Park](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shikuwasa-park): Ogimi Shikuwasa Park is a free shikuwasa factory and café in Ogimi, open every day from 10:00, where you can taste the village's citrus and watch it being processed.
- [Shima Bar AWAMORI+](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shima-bar-awamori-plus): Shima Bar AWAMORI+ is a 16-seat awamori bar about 60 m from Yui Rail Miebashi Station in Naha's Maejima district, and it opens 19:00–02:00 except Sundays. Tabelog reviewers say the staff explain each awamori as they pour it.
- [Shima cafe Tunkaraya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shima-cafe-tunkaraya): Shima Cafe Tunkaraya in Shinzato, Ueno, serves smoothies and lunch on an ocean-view terrace with swings.
- [Shima Gohan Attakaya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shima-gohan-attakaya): Shima Gohan Attakaya is a home-style Okinawan dinner house in Sukama, Shimoji, and the 2026 reviews call a booking essential.
- [Shima Italian en](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shima-italian-en): Shima Italian en is a small weeknight Italian restaurant five minutes by car from Uehara port on Iriomote, open Monday to Friday from 18:00, with dinner at about ¥3,000–4,000 a person.
- [Shima Muchu](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shima-muchu): Shima Muchu has run as a casual Okinawan diner by Kohama port since 2013, and you order from a ticket machine.
- [Shima no Eki Kurumado](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shima-no-eki-kurumado): Shima no Eki Kurumado is a black-sugar maker and roadside shop in Mugiya on Yoron's south-east coast, open 9:00–17:00 except Tuesdays and closed for winter in January and February.
- [Shima Parlor Hamahiga](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shima-parlor-hamahiga): Shima Parlor is a snack stand and island information point in Higa village on Hamahiga-jima, open 11:00 to 17:00 with 50 parking spaces. It sells pork-tamago rice balls and, in winter only, a mozuku clam chowder, and it closes on Wednesdays and the second and fourth Thursdays.
- [Shima Ryori Isun](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shima-ryori-isun): Shima Ryori Isun is a Kubura izakaya three minutes' walk from Yonaguni's fishing port, closed for a break from October to the end of December 2026.
- [Shima Soba Ichibanchi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shima-soba-ichibanchi): Shima Soba Ichibanchi is a Yaeyama soba specialist a block from Euglena Mall that stays open for dinner, which few soba counters in town do, with soba from ¥715 on its 2026 menu.
- [Shimabar Youji](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shimabar-youji): Shimabar Youji is an island-food izakaya in the Eef Beach strip on Kume-jima that opens 18:00–23:00 except Wednesdays, at about ¥3,000 a person in 2026.
- [Shimanchu Soba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shimanchu-soba): Shimanchu Soba in Okinawa City's Yogi district is an Okinawa soba shop and the sister shop of Gate 1, a long-running taco-rice shop in Kin, and its set pairs a bowl of soba with taco rice. It opens 11:00 to 20:00.
- [Shimauta Izakaya Kiyama](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shimauta-izakaya-kiyama): Shimauta Izakaya Kiyama is a Nishizato-dori izakaya with Miyako folk songs and island cooking, open every night except Tuesday.
- [Shimujo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shimujo): Shimujo is an Okinawa soba shop in a red-tiled old house in Shuri Sueyoshi, Naha, that opens 11:00–15:00 or until sold out and closes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The house and its grounds are registered tangible cultural properties of Japan, and a medium soba set cost ¥1,300 in July 2026.
- [Shirahama Soba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shirahama-soba): Shirahama Soba is a soba restaurant at the western road end of Iriomote in Shirahama, open for lunch and dinner from Wednesday to Sunday, about 35 minutes by car from Uehara.
- [Shiraho Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shiraho-shokudo): Shiraho Shokudo is the village diner in Shiraho on Ishigaki's east coast, and it serves soki soba and champuru sets at lunch only, Tuesday to Saturday from 11:30 to 14:00.
- [Shirasa](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shirasa-shokudo): Shirasa on Kouri-jima serves uni-don (sea urchin rice bowl) sets from ¥3,500 (2026) in a tatami dining room, 10:00–17:00 except Thursdays, and takes cash only.
- [Shiro no Chaya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shiro-no-chaya): Shiro no Chaya beside the Nakijin Castle entrance in Imadomari presses sugar cane juice to order for ¥400 (2026), and you can visit without a castle ticket.
- [Ryukyu Ryori Shisa-ya (Yoron)](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shisa-ya-yoron): Shisa-ya is a 50-seat Okinawan and Yoron izakaya at the entrance to Chabana's Ginza-dori that stocks about 500 kinds of island spirits and awamori.
- [Shokudo Sachi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shokudo-sachi): Shokudo Sachi is a diner in Aharen on Tokashiki-jima that serves bonito-broth Okinawa soba and set meals at about ¥1,000, and it stayed open through January and February 2026.
- [Shop Jugon](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shop-jugon): Shop Jugon is the café and shop 30 seconds' walk from Ohara port on Iriomote, open 8:30–17:30, where the Nakama River cruise sells its tickets and reviewers praise the kokuto soft serve.
- [Shuraku Ahari](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shuraku-ahari): Shuraku Ahari is an Aharen izakaya that also serves a short soba lunch, and a yushi-tofu soba set cost ¥1,100 when a reviewer ate there on 19 February 2026.
- [Shuri Horikawa](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shuri-horikawa): Shuri Horikawa is an Okinawa soba shop at the foot of Shuri Castle in Naha that is known for its house-made tofu and sooki. It opens 11:00–15:30 except on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and sooki soba cost ¥950 in January 2026.
- [Shuri Soba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/shuri-soba): Shuri Soba is a 24-seat Okinawa soba shop in Shuri Akata-cho, Naha, where a medium bowl of its one house soba cost ¥500 in September 2026. It opens 11:00–14:00 or until the noodles run out, and it shuts on Thursdays and Sundays.
- [Soba-dokoro Tamaya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/soba-dokoro-tamaya): Soba-dokoro Tamaya is a popular Okinawa soba shop in Ozato, Nanjo, about 30 minutes from Naha Airport, that opens 10:00–17:00 and puts out free yomogi to pile on your bowl.
- [Soba-ya Yoshiko](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/soba-ya-yoshiko): Soba-ya Yoshiko on Route 84 in Izumi, Motobu, opens at 10:00 and is the soba-road stop for tebichi (pork trotter stewed until the meat leaves the bone).
- [Soba-ya Chingushi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/sobaya-chingushi): Soba-ya Chingushi sits behind the post office in Tokashiki village and serves Okinawa soba in a tuna-bone broth at weekday lunch, Monday to Thursday.
- [Steak House 88 Tsuji Honten](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/steak-house-88-tsuji): Steak House 88 Tsuji Honten is the main branch of Okinawa's 88 steak chain in Tsuji, Naha, where a 200 g 88 special red-meat steak cost ¥4,158 in September 2026. It opens every day from 11:00 to 2:00 (last order 1:00).
- [Sumamunutarama](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/sumamunutarama): Sumamunutarama is a souvenir shop and lunch counter in Shiokawa village on Tarama island, the easiest lunch for a day trip from Miyako.
- [Sumubari Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/sumubari-shokudo): Sumubari Shokudo in Karimata cooks octopus rice bowls and Miyako soba just before the Ikema Ohashi.
- [Sunny Coral](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/sunny-coral): Sunny Coral is a morning café by Tokashiki Port that serves sandwiches and coffee from 8:00 and rents e-bikes, so it makes the obvious place to start a ride on the island.
- [Suumanumee](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/suumanumee): Suumanumee is an Okinawa soba shop in Kokuba, Naha, that opens at 10:00 on weekdays (11:00 at weekends) and serves until 22:00, and its 66 seats include 26 on a terrace. A small nankotsu-sooki soba cost ¥1,100 in March 2026.
- [Suzuran Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/suzuran-shokudo): Suzuran Shokudo on the main street between Ie Port and the village office fills with islanders by noon and serves lunch 11:00–15:00 except Mondays.
- [T&M COFFEE Makishi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/t-and-m-coffee): T&M COFFEE is a specialty coffee roaster's café in a renovated old house about 7 minutes' walk from Yui Rail Kencho-mae Station in Naha's Makishi district, and you choose French press or paper drip for each single origin. It opens 08:00–20:00 on Saturdays and Sundays and 11:00–19:00 on weekdays.
- [Tacos-ya Chatan](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/tacos-ya-chatan): Tacos-ya Chatan is a small taco shop near the Sunabe seafront that makes its own tortillas and salsa every day, open 11:30 to 23:00 and closed on Tuesdays. It seats 18 and takes cash only.
- [Takaesu Soba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/takaesu-soba): Takaesu Soba in Urasoe's Iso district is a long-running Okinawa soba shop best known for yushi-dofu soba, noodles in broth topped with soft fresh tofu. It opens 10:00–15:45 and closes on Sundays.
- [Takara Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/takara-shokudo): Takara Shokudo is a 38-seat Okinawan diner in Wakasa, Naha, near Naminoue, where the A lunch plate cost ¥1,000 in 2026. It opens 10:30–19:45 and closes on Thursdays.
- [Soba Dokoro Takenoko](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/takenoko): Soba Dokoro Takenoko has served Yaeyama soba in Taketomi village since 1975, and diners season it with kuchu, the shop's homemade spice; it closes when the soba runs out.
- [Tamaya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/tamaya-onigiri): Tamaya sells pork tamago onigiri from 7:30 every day in a shop a few steps from Ishigaki's island ferry terminal, and each rice parcel wraps luncheon meat and egg in seaweed.
- [Tasokare Coffee](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/tasokare-coffee): Tasokare Coffee is a café about 250 m from Yui Rail Miebashi Station in Naha's Makishi district that opens at 08:30 for coffee and house-baked bread. It closes on Thursdays, Sundays and public holidays and takes cash only.
- [Mendokoro Teianda](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/teianda): Mendokoro Teianda is a 20-seat Okinawa soba shop in Ameku, Naha, that makes its own noodles and offers a mugwort-green fuchiba version. It opens 11:00–14:00 from Wednesday to Sunday or until the noodles run out, and a medium nankotsu-sooki soba cost ¥940 in April 2026.
- [THINK](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/think-bar): THINK is a cocktail bar on Nishizato-dori in Hirara with a deep back bar and a rule of parties of two or fewer.
- [Three Piece](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/three-piece-kumejima): Three Piece is a soba shop in the Eef Beach strip on Kume-jima that serves spicy miso soba for ¥900 and Okinawan zenzai, for cash only.
- [Tishiraji Soba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/tishiraji-soba): Tishiraji Soba is a 12-seat Okinawa soba shop in Shuri Teira-cho, Naha, where an ¥800 bowl (2026) carries two thick slabs of sanmai-niku pork belly. It opens 11:30–16:00 from Wednesday to Sunday and on holidays, or until sold out.
- [Tofu no Higa](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/tofu-no-higa): Tofu no Higa is a breakfast-only tofu maker on the north edge of Ishigaki town that serves yushi tofu sets from 6:30 to 10:00 except on Sundays, and Tabelog named it one of its 100 best diners in 2024.
- [Tomari Iyumachi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/tomari-iyumachi): Tomari Iyumachi is the fish market beside Tomari fishing port in Naha, where stalls sell sashimi and takeaway sushi from 6:00 to 18:00 and fish tempura cost ¥100 a piece in May 2026. Go early, because some stalls sell out.
- [Tomari Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/tomari-shokudo-iejima): Tomari Shokudo near Ie Port serves soba and set meals straight through from 11:00 to 17:00 except Tuesdays, so it is Ie-jima's best bet for a late lunch.
- [Toya Fishing Port fish market](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/toya-fishing-port): Toya Fishing Port in Yomitan sells the day's catch from one of the largest fixed nets in Okinawa, with a fish counter downstairs and a restaurant upstairs serving seafood bowls and fish soup. The port also farms umibudo, sea grapes.
- [Transit Café](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/transit-cafe): Transit Café is an upstairs ocean-view café and restaurant on Chatan's Sunabe seawall that serves lunch from 11:00 to 15:30 and dinner after. On clear days the Kerama Islands show on the horizon.
- [Tsuchi Kaoru](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/tsuchi-kaoru): Tsuchi Kaoru is a basement Okinawan restaurant opposite Hotel JAL City in Naha's Matsuo district, and its courses of prefectural vegetables and pork start at ¥6,000 a head for two or more. It opens 17:00–23:00 and closes on Sundays.
- [Ufuya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/ufuya): Ufuya serves Agu pork soba at lunch and Agu shabu-shabu at dinner in a farmhouse more than 100 years old in the forest above Nago.
- [Umi no Ie Yui](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/umi-no-ie-yui): Umi no Ie Yui is the beach house on Nishibama Beach on Aka-jima, and it serves curry and soba from 10:00 to 16:00; a September 2026 reviewer called it the only lunch within walking distance of the beach.
- [Umibozu](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/umibozu-kumejima): Umibozu is a prawn-led seafood izakaya in the Eef Beach strip on Kume-jima that serves live kuruma-ebi sashimi from 17:00 and admits adults only, for cash.
- [Soba Cafe Undouya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/undouya): Soba Cafe Undouya is a Yaeyama soba café in south-east Kuroshima that serves lunch from 11:00 to 14:00, and the island company behind it also takes snorkellers to the reefs.
- [Urizun](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/urizun): Urizun is a 110-seat Okinawan izakaya about 100 m from Yui Rail Asato Station at the edge of Sakaemachi Market, and it has served home cooking and Ryukyu court dishes since 1972. Mapple says it stocks awamori from every distillery in the prefecture plus house kusu that it ages for eight years or more in clay jars.
- [Uruma Gelato](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/uruma-gelato): Uruma Gelato is a gelato shop in Uruma's Teruma district on the way to the Kaichu Doro, open every day from 11:00 to 18:00 with 50 parking spaces. A single scoop starts at ¥500.
- [Uruma Himono Shokudo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/uruma-himono-shokudo): Uruma Himono Shokudo grills dried fish as set meals in the TERUMA east coast complex in Uruma, open 11:00 to 16:00 and closed on Mondays, except in August. The complex has 100 parking spaces.
- [Urumarche](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/urumarche): Urumarche is Uruma's farmers' market and food court, with a produce hall open 9:00 to 20:00 and an outdoor food court from 11:00 to 18:30. It has 160 parking spaces.
- [Usagiya Ishigaki](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/usagiya-ishigaki): Usagiya is a min'yo izakaya in central Ishigaki where sanshin players perform up close every night from 18:00, with a ¥300 table charge and ¥800 live charge on top of a long Okinawan menu.
- [Utopia Farm Miyakojima](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/utopia-farm-miyakojima): Utopia Farm Miyakojima in Miyaguni, Ueno, is a fruit and flower farm with a mango dessert parlour about ten minutes from Miyako Airport.
- [Suba-dokoro Wachichi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/wachichi): Suba-dokoro Wachichi in Okinawa City's Hiyagon district came first in Okinawa City's portal ranking of its most-viewed soba shops for April 2023 to March 2024, with a clear bonito broth and seared soft-bone soki. It opens 10:00 to 15:00 or until sold out and closes on Wednesdays.
- [Wakana Soba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/wakana-soba): Wakana Soba is a Yonaguni soba shop near Higawa on the island's south side, about ten minutes by car from the airport, and it serves pork-bone soba from 11:30 until it sells out, except on Tuesdays.
- [Wansaka Oura Park](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/wansaka-oura-park): Wansaka Oura Park is a community-run roadside market on Oura Bay on Nago's east coast, where a small kitchen serves soba beside a mangrove boardwalk, and it closes on the second and fourth Wednesdays.
- [Wayama Mozuku](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/wayama-mozuku): Wayama Mozuku sits three minutes' walk from Zamami's ferry terminal and makes Okinawa soba with mozuku seaweed kneaded into the noodles, hot all year and cold in summer.
- [Yachimun Kissa Shisa-en](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yachimun-kissa-shisaen): Yachimun Kissa Shisa-en in Izumi, Motobu, serves Okinawan snacks and coffee from Wednesday to Sunday on a forest terrace below a roof crowded with shisa statues.
- [Yaedake Bakery](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yaedake-bakery): Yaedake Bakery in Izumi, Motobu, has baked dark whole-grain bread for more than 30 years, much of it without egg, milk or butter, and closes on Saturdays.
- [Shima Ryori Yafayafa](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yafayafa): Shima Ryori Yafayafa has served Okinawan izakaya food near Euglena Mall since 2019, and it needs a reservation most nights; it closes on Sundays.
- [Yagi to Soba Taiyou](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yagi-to-soba-taiyou): Yagi to Soba Taiyou in Uruma's Ishikawa district serves goat dishes and Okinawa soba from its own goat farm, open daily except 1–3 January and until 20:30 from Friday to Sunday. Goat soba starts at ¥1,650.
- [Yakiniku Motobu Bokujo (Motobu)](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yakiniku-motobu-bokujo): Yakiniku Motobu Bokujo's Motobu branch in Ohama grills wagyu from the company's own Yanbaru farm at lunch and dinner every day of the year.
- [Yakiniku Motobu Bokujo (Nago)](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yakiniku-motobu-bokujo-nago): Yakiniku Motobu Bokujo in Nago's Umusa-no-mori grills Motobu beef from the company's own farm, with a ¥6,300 course and a weekday-only lunch menu.
- [JA Ishigaki Beef Yakiniku Watanabe](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yakiniku-watanabe): Yakiniku Watanabe is the farm co-operative JA's own Ishigaki beef restaurant on the second floor of a Misaki-cho building, and it grills over charcoal for guests who book, mostly on courses with a 10% service fee.
- [Sumibi Yakiniku Yamamoto](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yakiniku-yamamoto): Sumibi Yakiniku Yamamoto is a charcoal Ishigaki beef grill in Hamasaki-cho where Tabelog calls reservations essential, and Tabelog has named it among western Japan's 100 best yakiniku restaurants each year from 2023 to 2025.
- [Yamano Chaya Rakusui](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yamano-chaya-rakusui): Yamano Chaya Rakusui is a hillside lunch café above the Tamagusuku coast in Nanjo, built into the natural limestone, that serves meat-free Okinawan sets from 11:00 to 15:00 except on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
- [YAN CAFE](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yan-cafe): YAN CAFE is an art café facing Araha Beach in Chatan that serves specialty coffee and Okinawan mango smoothies and runs resin-art workshops. It opens Mondays, Fridays and weekends, with winter weekend hours of 9:00 to 17:30.
- [Yan Gwa](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yan-gwa): Yan Gwa in Nakadomari is a Kume-jima soba shop known for queues and its island-miso bean-sprout soba, and since January 2026 it opens only two weeks a month, so check its schedule first.
- [Yanbaru Soba](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yanbaru-soba): Yanbaru Soba on Route 84 in Izumi, Motobu, serves soki soba in a pork-and-bonito broth from 11:00 until it sells out, Wednesday to Sunday.
- [Shokuji-dokoro Yarabo](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yarabo): Yarabo serves soba and set meals in Taketomi village from 11:00 to 16:00 except on Wednesdays, and bikes park right outside.
- [Yashi no Ie Souya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yashi-no-ie-souya): Yashi no Ie Souya is a soba house under palm trees on the north edge of Ishigaki town that makes its own hand-pulled noodles and tops its Yaeyama soba with charcoal-grilled pork; it opens Wednesday to Sunday.
- [Yashi no Ki](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yashi-no-ki): Yashi no Ki is a curry café in Kohama village that opens from 11:00 to 19:30 and closes on Thursdays and Fridays.
- [Yonamine House](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yonamine-house): Yonamine House is a bar in Aka village that opens from 18:00 to midnight, and July 2026 reviewers described it as one of the only places open at night on the island.
- [Restaurant Tara (Yoron-to Village)](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yoron-no-ajitara): Restaurant Tara is the restaurant of the Yoron-to Village hotel on the hill north of Chabana that serves Amami keihan chicken rice at lunch four days a week and reservation-only island dinners.
- [Min'yo Izakaya Yorudooya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yorudooya): Yorudooya is a min'yo izakaya in Misaki-cho where island-born staff sing the old songs of Ishigaki, and Tabelog reviewers in 2026 count its live sets among the best in town.
- [Yubujima Chaya](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yubujima-chaya): Yubujima Chaya is the gelato tea house inside the Yubu-jima botanical garden off Iriomote's east coast, open 10:15–16:00; you reach it by water buffalo cart or on foot across the shallows.
- [Shimauta Sanshin Live Izakaya Yuikaji](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yuikaji): Yuikaji is a sanshin live-music izakaya on the second floor of a Misaki-cho building in central Ishigaki, and since 2013 it has opened from 18:00 every night except Tuesdays.
- [Michi-no-eki Yuiyui Kunigami](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yuiyui-kunigami): Michi-no-eki Yuiyui Kunigami is a roadside station on Route 58 at Okuma, Kunigami, with an Okinawan restaurant open 11:00–16:00 and 14 bicycle stands.
- [Yukishio Museum](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yukishio-museum): The Yukishio Museum in Karimata is the free showroom and shop of Miyako's snow salt, and its café tops soft serve with flavoured salts.
- [Yukui-dokoro Washima](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yukuidokoro-washima): Yukui-dokoro Washima in Nishime on Kume-jima is the place for kuruma-ebi soba, which tops Okinawa soba with the island's farmed prawns, at ¥1,650 in 2026.
- [The YUNAMI Diner](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yunami-diner): The YUNAMI Diner in Kanegusuku on Kume-jima serves burgers and vegan food at lunch from 11:00 to 15:00 except Tuesdays and Wednesdays, at the address of the former YUNAMI FACTORY.
- [Yunangi](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yunangi): Yunangi has cooked Okinawan home food in Kumoji since 1970, and its 39 seats sit about 4 minutes' walk from Yui Rail Kencho-mae Station. It takes no reservations or cards and opens 17:00–21:30, so arrive near opening and expect a queue.
- [Yunta Ichiba farmers' market](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yunta-ichiba): Yunta Ichiba is Yomitan's farmers' market in the village's Kina district, open 9:00 to 18:00 almost every day, with island vegetables and Okinawan bento, and free parking. Popo no Mise Hitotoki next door sells Yomitan's traditional rolled pancake.
- [Yuunami Sakashita](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/yuunami-sakashita): Yuunami Sakashita is a 50-seat Okinawa soba shop in Matsukawa, Naha, where the mix soba with three cuts of pork on house-made noodles cost ¥1,050 in September 2026. It opens 11:00–21:00.
- [Zamami Fisheries Co-op Store](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/zamami-fisheries-coop-store): The Zamami Fisheries Co-op Store sits a minute from Zamami Port and sells the co-op's own catch as seafood bowls and fish tempura to eat at the benches outside or in its air-conditioned room.
- [Zhyvago Coffee Works](https://rideokinawa.com/eat/zhyvago-coffee-works): Zhyvago Coffee Works is a coffee stand on the Depot Island seafront in Chatan's American Village, opened in August 2015 by an owner inspired by Portland, Oregon. It sits on the seawall promenade, which makes it an easy coffee stop on a ride.

## Towns
- [Aharen](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/aharen): Aharen is the beach village that wraps round Aharen Beach on Tokashiki-jima's south-west coast, and the island bus covers the 5 km from Tokashiki Port; a handful of its kitchens stayed open through February 2026.
- [Aka](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/aka-village): Aka is the village on Aka-jima, where about 235 people live beside Aka Port, and the Aka Ohashi leads from its lanes on to Geruma and Fukaji.
- [American Village, Mihama and Sunabe](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/american-village): American Village is the shopping and dining district that wraps around Depot Island and a seafront promenade in Chatan's Mihama, and this page also covers the Sunabe seawall about 15 minutes' walk north. Fireworks go up over the water every Saturday at 20:00.
- [Bise](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/bise): Bise is the old fishing hamlet at the northern tip of Motobu, just past Ocean Expo Park, where sandy lanes run between rows of fukugi trees down to the sea.
- [Chabana](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/chabana): Chabana is Yoron's town centre on the west coast, about seven minutes by car from the airport and port, where Ginza-dori and nearly all of the island's izakaya sit within a few streets of the sea.
- [Chatan](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/chatan): Chatan is the seaside town of about 29,000 people on central Okinawa's west coast where American Village and the Sunabe dive coast face the sunset over the East China Sea. It sits about 40 minutes by car from Naha Airport, and a direct bus runs to Chatan Gateway.
- [Chinen](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/chinen): Chinen is the former village at the eastern tip of Nanjo on the Chinen peninsula, and it holds Sefa-utaki, Chinen Misaki Park, Azama port for Kudaka and the Niraikanai Bridge.
- [Eef Beach area](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/eef-beach-area): The Eef Beach area in Higa and Janado is Kume-jima's resort strip on the east coast, where hotels and restaurants line 2 km of beach, and the Hatenohama boats leave from Tomari Fisherina a short ride north, near the bridge to Ou-jima.
- [Ginowan](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/ginowan): Ginowan is a city of about 100,000 people in central Okinawa, wrapped around US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, which takes up about a quarter of its land. Its coast holds the Okinawa Convention Center and Tropical Beach, and Kakazu Ridge, where one of the biggest fights of the Battle of Okinawa took place, is now a hilltop park.
- [Ginoza](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/ginoza): Ginoza is a village on central Okinawa's Pacific coast north of Kin, where the Hanshin Tigers' first team holds its spring training camp. It grew from four old villages counted in 1649.
- [Gusukube](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/gusukube): Gusukube covers the south-east of Miyako-jima from Sunagawa to Higashi-Hennazaki, and the Yoshino and Aragusuku snorkel lagoons lie on its coast.
- [Haebaru](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/haebaru): Haebaru is a 10.76 km² town of about 41,500 people just east of Naha; it is the most populous town in Okinawa and the only municipality in the prefecture with no coastline.
- [Hateruma village](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/hateruma-village): Hateruma village is the cluster of five hamlets in the middle of Hateruma-jima where all 442 islanders live and nearly all the inns and shops sit, about 15 minutes' walk up from the port.
- [Hentona](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/hentona): Hentona is the main settlement of Kunigami village on Route 58, where the village office and a fishing port sit beside the last shops of any size before Cape Hedo.
- [Higashi](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/higashi): Higashi is a village of about 1,600 people on Yanbaru's Pacific coast, and its Gesashi Bay mangroves are the largest on Okinawa Island.
- [Higawa](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/higawa): Higawa is the smallest of Yonaguni's three villages, on the south coast below Kubura-dake 15–20 minutes by car from the airport, and it is known for its two soba shops and the open-air set of the drama 'Dr. Koto Shinryojo'.
- [Hirakubo](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/hirakubo): Hirakubo is the village on the Hirakubo peninsula at Ishigaki's northern end, and the road through it runs on to Hirakubozaki lighthouse, about 80 minutes by car from town.
- [Hirara](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/hirara): Hirara is the town of Miyako-jima and the base for most visitors, and its Nishizato-dori and Shimozato-dori streets hold the island's busiest run of restaurants and bars.
- [Ibaruma](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/ibaruma): Ibaruma is the village at the narrow neck of north-east Ishigaki, and Tamatorizaki Observatory above it looks over both seas toward the Hirakubo peninsula; Akaishi Shokudo's soba counter lies just up the road.
- [Ie](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/ie-village): Ie village covers all of Ie-jima, where about 3,800 people live in five districts, and a 30-minute ferry from Motobu reaches it.
- [Ikema](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/ikema-town): Ikema is the fishing village of 468 people at the end of the Ikema Ohashi, and Yabiji reef tours leave from its harbour.
- [Irabu](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/irabu-town): Irabu is the farming side of Irabu island, from Nagahama and Kuninaka to Sawada, and it makes a quiet base for 17END and the Shimoji dive sites.
- [Ishigaki town centre](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/ishigaki-city): Ishigaki's town centre spreads around the island ferry terminal on the south coast of Ishigaki-jima, with the Misaki-cho bar streets and the covered Euglena Mall a short walk from the boats, and many visitors to the Yaeyamas sleep here. Ishigaki City had 47,148 residents on 1 September 2026, by the prefecture's estimate.
- [Itoman](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/itoman): Itoman is a fishing city of about 62,000 people at the southern end of Okinawa Island, and it holds the battle memorials of Mabuni and Himeyuri, the cliffs of Cape Kyan and a working fishing port.
- [Kabira](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/kabira): Kabira is the village around Kabira Bay on Ishigaki's north-west coast, about 30 minutes by car from town, and it pairs the island's best-known view with Sukuji beach, a few minutes west, for a swim.
- [Kadena](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/kadena): Kadena is the town of about 12,800 people on Okinawa's west coast that sits beside Kadena Air Base, and Michi-no-Eki Kadena's deck looks straight over the airfield.
- [Katsuren](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/katsuren): Katsuren is the southern half of the Yokatsu peninsula in Uruma, where the World Heritage castle of Katsuren stands above Okinawa's mozuku farms. Boats for Tsuken leave from its Heshikiya port, and it was its own town until the 2005 merger.
- [Kin](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/kin): Kin is a town of about 11,600 people on central Okinawa's east coast, beside the Marines' Camp Hansen, and the birthplace of taco rice. The dish was first served in 1984 in Kin's Shinkaichi bar district.
- [Kitanakagusuku](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/kitanakagusuku): Kitanakagusuku is a hillside village in central Okinawa between Okinawa City and the east coast, and Japanese Wikipedia counts it as the most densely populated village in Japan. It shares the ridge of Nakagusuku castle with its southern neighbour and looks down on Nakagusuku Bay.
- [Kohama village](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/kohama-village): Kohama village is home to 704 of Kohama island's 802 residents, according to the town register for August 2026, and most of the island's small restaurants sit in its lanes of red-tiled houses.
- [Kokusai-dori](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/kokusai-dori): Kokusai-dori is the mile-long main street of central Naha, and the neighbourhood around it is packed with shops and restaurants; the street closes to traffic on Sundays from 12:00 to 18:00.
- [Kouri](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/kouri-village): Kouri is the one settlement on Kouri-jima in Nakijin village, where about 350 people live and the island's cafés and shrimp stands gather near the Kouri Bridge.
- [Koza](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/koza): Koza is the old centre of Okinawa City around Gate 2 Street, Goya crossroads and Park Avenue, where bilingual bar signs and live music keep the streets busy after dark. Its name comes from the US Army's Camp Koza of 1945.
- [Kubura](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/kubura): Kubura is Yonaguni's fishing village on the west coast, about ten minutes by car from the airport, where the Ishigaki ferry docks, the marlin boats land their catch and Japan's westernmost cape at Irizaki rises above the harbour.
- [Kumejima Town](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/kumejima-town): Kumejima Town is the municipality that covers Kume-jima and Ou-jima, and it counted 6,859 residents at the end of September 2026; its shops and port sit on the west side around Nakadomari and Kanegusuku, and its resort strip runs along Eef Beach on the east.
- [Kunigami](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/kunigami): Kunigami is the northernmost village on Okinawa Island: about 4,200 people live in its 194.85 km² of mostly forest, which reaches Cape Hedo at the tip and climbs to 503 m on Yonaha-dake, higher than any other peak on the island.
- [Kuroshima hamlets](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/kuroshima-village): Kuroshima's people live in five small hamlets spread across the island, and Higashisuji in the middle holds the post office and the observation tower.
- [Maeda](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/maeda): Maeda is the district at the southern end of Onna around Cape Maeda, the jumping-off point for the Blue Cave snorkel and dive site. Bus 120 from Naha Airport stops at Kurawa, about 20 minutes' walk away.
- [Makishi](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/makishi): Makishi is Naha's market quarter at the east end of Kokusai-dori, where the Daiichi Makishi Public Market and the covered arcades of Heiwa-dori sit a short walk from Makishi monorail station.
- [Motobu](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/motobu): Motobu covers the tip of the Motobu Peninsula and holds the Churaumi Aquarium and the Okinawa soba road, with ferries out to Ie-jima and Minna-jima.
- [Nago](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/nago): Nago is the main city of northern Okinawa, where about 65,000 people live on Nago Bay at the end of the Okinawa Expressway, and riders base themselves here for Motobu and Yanbaru.
- [Naha](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/naha): Naha is Okinawa's capital and largest city, with about 309,000 people on 41.5 km², and it holds the main airport and the ferry ports for the outer islands.
- [Nakagusuku](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/nakagusuku): Nakagusuku is an east-coast village of about 23,000 people south of Kitanakagusuku, and the World Heritage ruins of Nakagusuku castle stand on its ridge. It is the third most populous village in Japan and among the fastest growing.
- [Nakijin](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/nakijin): Nakijin is the village on the north side of the Motobu Peninsula that holds Kouri-jima and the World Heritage ruins of Nakijin Castle, where the old Hokuzan kingdom ruled.
- [Naminoue](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/naminoue): Naminoue is the seafront corner of west Naha around Naminoue-gu shrine and Naminoue Beach, and it takes in the Wakasa and Tsuji districts.
- [Nanjo](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/nanjo): Nanjo is a city of about 47,000 people on the southeast coast of Okinawa Island that was formed in 2006 from four municipalities, and it holds Sefa-utaki, Kudaka-jima, Okinawa World and the cafés of the Route 331 coast.
- [Ogimi](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/ogimi): Ogimi is a Yanbaru village of about 2,900 people on Route 58 north of Nago, and it is known for its long-lived elders and its shikuwasa citrus.
- [Ohara](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/ohara): Ohara is the port village on Iriomote's south-east coast, 40–45 minutes by high-speed boat from Ishigaki, where the Nakama River mangrove cruise leaves from the harbour and the ferries keep running on many winter days when Uehara's are cancelled.
- [Ojima village](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/ojima-village): Ojima village is the fishing settlement that covers all of the 0.23 km² island of Ojima off Tamagusuku in Nanjo, where about 870 people live and two tempura stands draw visitors.
- [Okinawa City](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/okinawa-city): Okinawa City formed in 1974 when Koza and Misato merged, and it is the most populous city on the island after Naha. It is home to eisa dance and Koza's base-town nightlife, along with the Okinawa Zoo and the Ryukyu Golden Kings' basketball arena.
- [Oku](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/oku): Oku is the small settlement at the northern end of Okinawa Island's east coast in Kunigami, where the island's first village co-op store opened in 1906.
- [Onna](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/onna): Onna is the long, narrow resort village that runs 27.4 km along Okinawa's west coast, and its headlands hold Cape Manzamo and Cape Maeda's Blue Cave. It sits about 50 km north of Naha.
- [Oroku](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/oroku): Oroku is the residential southwestern district of Naha on the peninsula between Naha Airport and the Kokuba River, and the monorail serves it at Akamine and Oroku stations.
- [Sakaemachi](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/sakaemachi): Sakaemachi is the area around Sakaemachi Market in Asato, Naha, where a lane market about 150 m from Asato monorail station fills with drinkers after dark.
- [Sarahama](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/sarahama): Sarahama is the bonito-fishing port and settlement on Irabu's east coast, settled by Ikema islanders, and the first place you reach after the Irabu Ohashi.
- [Sashiki](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/sashiki): Sashiki is the former town on Nakagusuku Bay in northern Nanjo where the city hall now stands, and it holds the hilltop Yuinchi Hotel with its hot spring and the Sho family's early seat at Sashiki-ue gusuku.
- [Shimoji](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/shimoji-town): Shimoji is the airport island of 99 residents, and Miyako's winter cave dives lie off its west coast.
- [Shirahama](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/shirahama): Shirahama is the village at the western end of Iriomote's Route 215, about 35 minutes by car from Uehara, where the road stops and the Funauki Kaiun boat crosses to Funauki and Ida-no-hama.
- [Shiraho](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/shiraho): Shiraho is an old farming village on Ishigaki's east coast just south of New Ishigaki Airport, known for the Shiraho reef and its blue coral, and its community now runs the Shiraho Sango-mura reef centre that WWF Japan founded.
- [Shuri](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/shuri): Shuri is the hilltop district in northeast Naha that was the royal capital of the Ryukyu kingdom; Shuri Castle stands at its centre, and the Yui Rail monorail stops at Shuri and Gibo stations.
- [Sonai](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/sonai): Sonai is Yonaguni's main village, on the north coast about ten minutes by car east of the airport, where the town office, the post office and most of the island's evening restaurants sit below the cliff of Tindabana.
- [Taketomi village](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/taketomi-village): Taketomi village fills the centre of Taketomi island, and its red-tiled houses behind coral walls line lanes of white sand that Japan protects as a traditional townscape; the port is about 5 minutes away by car.
- [Tamagusuku](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/tamagusuku): Tamagusuku is the former village in southern Nanjo that holds Okinawa World and Gangala Valley, the beaches of Hyakuna and Mibaru, the beach cafés of Route 331 and the bridge to Ojima.
- [Tancha](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/tancha): Tancha is a district on Onna's coast road south of Onna village, on the line where northern and central-southern Okinawan dialects are said to meet.
- [Tarama Village](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/tarama-village): Tarama Village governs Tarama and Minna islands and their roughly 1,000 residents; RAC flies there from Miyako in 20–25 minutes.
- [Tokashiki Village](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/tokashiki-village): Tokashiki Village is the municipality of Tokashiki-jima, where the 2020 census counted 718 people, and the boats from Naha land at its port settlement on the east coast after about 35 minutes on the high-speed Marine Liner Tokashiki.
- [Tomari](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/tomari): Tomari is the port district of northern Naha where ferries leave for the Kerama islands and Kume-jima, and Tomari fishing port runs the Iyumachi fish market next door.
- [Tomigusuku](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/tomigusuku): Tomigusuku is a fast-growing city of about 65,000 people just south of Naha and its airport, and Senaga-jima's Umikaji Terrace and Toyosaki Churasun Beach sit on its coast.
- [Tsuboya](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/tsuboya): Tsuboya is the pottery quarter of central Naha that the royal government created in 1682 by bringing three kilns together, and its stone-paved Yachimun-dori lane runs a few minutes' walk south of Kokusai-dori.
- [Uehara](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/uehara): Uehara is the port village on Iriomote's north coast, where the Ishigaki boats land beside the Densa terminal and most of the island's restaurants and tour shops sit within a few kilometres along Route 215.
- [Ueno](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/ueno): Ueno is the south-coast district of Miyako-jima that holds the Shigira resort, and its Miyaguni villagers rescued a German ship's crew in 1873.
- [Urasoe](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/urasoe): Urasoe is the city of about 115,000 people directly north of Naha, and for about 220 years from the 12th century it was the seat of Okinawa's kings. Visitors come for the Urasoe Gusuku ruins and royal tombs, the café lanes of Minatogawa Stateside Town and the A&W and Blue Seal on the Makiminato strip.
- [Uruma](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/uruma): Uruma is the east-coast city of about 128,000 people that holds the Kaichu Doro sea road and the islands of Henza, Hamahiga, Miyagi, Ikei and Tsuken, and it makes a natural base for island rides in central Okinawa. Katsuren castle and Bios Hill are in Uruma too.
- [Yaese](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/yaese): Yaese is a farming town of about 33,000 people in the hills of southern Okinawa Island; it was formed in 2006 and named after the 163 m Yaese-dake, and the oldest surviving shisa guards its village of Tomori.
- [Yomitan](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/yomitan): Yomitan is the cape-shaped village north of Kadena on Okinawa's west coast, and Japanese Wikipedia counts it as the most populous village in Japan. It is known for Cape Zanpa and the Yachimun no Sato pottery village, and US forces landed on its shore on 1 April 1945.
- [Yonabaru](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/yonabaru): Yonabaru is the smallest municipality on Okinawa Island, and its 5.18 km² on Nakagusuku Bay, about 9 km east of Naha, hold about 19,000 people and the junction where Route 329 meets the Route 331 coast road.
- [Yonaha](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/yonaha): Yonaha covers the south-west corner of Miyako-jima in old Shimoji town, where Yonaha Maehama runs past the Tokyu resort to the Kurima Ohashi.
- [Yonehara](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/yonehara): Yonehara is a small settlement on Route 79 on Ishigaki's north-west coast, known for its shore snorkelling beach and the Yaeyama palm grove, and its juice stand makes it a natural stop on an island loop.
- [Yoron Town](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/yoron-town): Yoron Town is Kagoshima Prefecture's southernmost town and covers all of Yoron-jima, with its office in Chabana and its beaches and castle ruins spread around a 23.7 km coast.
- [Zamami Village](https://rideokinawa.com/towns/zamami-village): Zamami Village is the municipality that runs Zamami, Aka and Geruma, and it counted 878 residents at the end of September 2026; its main settlement behind Zamami Port is the base for whale season in the Keramas.

## Operators: tours, diving, kayak and rental
- [24°NORTH](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/24-north-miyako): 24°NORTH opened Miyako's first dive service in 1977 and now runs catamaran yacht cruises from Nikadori fishing port in Hirara, from ¥16,500 for a five-hour snorkel day in 2026 up to a five-day liveaboard dive cruise.
- [Miyakojima Adventure PiPi](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/adventure-pipi-miyako): Miyakojima Adventure PiPi bills itself as Miyako's biggest activity shop, and in 2026 it sells a ¥7,900 sunset SUP and sea turtle snorkelling from ¥6,900, with English-speaking staff at every branch and free pickup across Miyako-jima and Kurima.
- [Anei Kanko day tours](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/anei-kanko-tours): Anei Kanko runs ferries from Ishigaki's port terminal and sells day tours with the boat fare included, from a ¥12,100 Hateruma cycling day to the ¥17,400 Iriomote, Yubu-jima and Taketomi three-island trip (2026 prices, about 10% less when booked online).
- [Aoyagi Cycle](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/aoyagi-cycle-miyako): Aoyagi Cycle is a mobile bike mechanic on Miyako-jima who comes to you free on Miyako, Ikema, Kurima and Irabu and works on road bikes and e-bikes, with puncture repair from ¥1,500 on its April 2026 price list.
- [Arcturus star tours](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/arcturus-yoron-star-tours): Arcturus runs private stargazing tours on Yoron led by a certified star sommelier, from ¥3,300 a person for an hour with free pickup, and children of junior-high age and under go free.
- [Awamori Masahiro Gallery](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/awamori-masahiro-gallery): Awamori Masahiro Gallery in Nishizaki, Itoman, about 15 minutes by car from Naha Airport, shows how Masahiro Shuzo makes awamori and pours tastings daily 9:00–17:00, with a ¥1,100 label-making session and a mini bottle for visitors who book ahead.
- [Beach Boy Club](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/beach-boy-club-yoron): Beach Boy Club runs boat trips to Yurigahama from ¥4,400 in 2026 and night-sky tours led by a certified star sommelier, from Minata beach on Yoron's northeast coast, where it has worked since 1970.
- [Rental Cycle Ishigaki BigJoy](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/bigjoy-ishigaki): Rental Cycle Ishigaki BigJoy rents six road bikes from ¥2,500 to ¥4,000 per 24 hours, city bikes for ¥2,000 and e-bikes for ¥2,500 from Okawa in central Ishigaki, open 10:00–22:00.
- [BIGJOY Miyakojima](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/bigjoy-miyakojima): BIGJOY Miyakojima rents e-bikes with large Yamaha batteries for ¥2,500 per 24 hours from Hirara, diagonally across from the Miyako Health Center, with paid hotel delivery and English support on its 2026 listing.
- [Boraga Pool adventure kayak to Pumpkin Hole](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/boraga-pumpkin-hole-kayak): Boraga Beach on Miyako's southeast coast runs adventure kayak trips to the Pumpkin Hole sea cave from ¥12,000 per adult in 2026, and its staff speak English.
- [Busena Marine Park](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/busena-marine-park): Busena Marine Park on Cape Busena in Nago runs 20-minute glass-bottom boat trips over the reef every 20 minutes for ¥1,560 an adult, alongside an underwater observatory 5 m below the surface, open every day of the year.
- [Rental Cycle Miyakojima Cafe&Bike](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/cafe-and-bike-miyakojima): Rental Cycle Miyakojima Cafe&Bike delivers electric-assist bicycles to hotels in Miyakojima city and collects them at no charge, opening 11:00–18:00. Its website doesn't list a day rate, and a guided plan on Rakuten costs ¥30,000.
- [Cerulean Blue](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/cerulean-blue): Cerulean Blue runs three-hour whale-watching boats from Naha's Miegusuku Port and from Chatan between 19 December 2026 and 4 April 2027, from ¥5,000 an adult, with a no-whale refund or free re-ride from 1 February to 15 March 2027.
- [Chatan Town Information Center](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/chatan-information-center): The Chatan Town Information Center near American Village in Mihama rents e-assist bikes for ¥1,500 for the first hour up to a ¥4,500 daily cap, and keeps luggage for ¥500 an item.
- [Churaboshi Island star and sanshin tour](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/churaboshi-island-ishigaki): Churaboshi Island runs a one-hour stargazing tour with live sanshin songs on private land in Ishigaki's Touri district, at 21:00 for ¥5,000 per adult in 2026, with free pickup from the port terminal and big hotels.
- [Churachari bike share](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/churachari): Churachari is the e-assist bike share run by Docomo Bike Share in Naha and neighbouring towns, costing ¥220 per 30 minutes or ¥1,650 for a one-day pass, with returns at any port and an app sign-up that needs a smartphone able to receive SMS.
- [COCO SEA Miyakojima](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/coco-sea-miyako): COCO SEA Miyakojima runs private snorkel and SUP tours for one family at a time, guided by trained nursery teachers, with sea turtle snorkelling from ¥6,000 a person in 2026.
- [COCO SUP](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/coco-sup-zamami): COCO SUP, which calls itself the only dedicated SUP shop on Zamami, runs sunrise-to-sunset paddleboard tours from ¥6,000 and a half-day SUP and snorkel trip for ¥8,000, plus a winter-only combination with whale watching.
- [Cycle Plaza Ikehara](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/cycle-plaza-ikehara): Cycle Plaza Ikehara has run a bike shop in Ishikawa, Uruma, since 1985 and rents road bikes for ¥3,000 a day from a spot between the Onna coast and the Kaichu Doro, about halfway up Okinawa's main island.
- [Cycle Shop Yoshida Ishigaki](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/cycle-shop-yoshida-ishigaki): Cycle Shop Yoshida's Ishigaki branch rents e-bikes for ¥15,000 a day and road bikes for ¥12,000 a day from the Kawahira Maetake farm near Kabira, with helmets included and delivery for ¥3,000, bookable in English through Ishigaki Tours.
- [Dive Center No-Y](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/dive-center-noi): Dive Center No-Y is a Zamami dive shop and pension, open since 1994, that dives the Keramas all year from ¥7,700 a boat dive and runs two-hour whale watching from January to March for ¥6,600 an adult, with English on its whale boat.
- [Dive Gobies](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/dive-gobies): Dive Gobies has run drift dives from Aka Island since 1996 and takes experienced divers (about 70–100 logged dives) to the outer Kerama reefs such as Shimozone, at ¥22,000 for three dives in 2026.
- [DRIFTER (Kerama Kayak Center)](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/drifter-zamami): DRIFTER, also called Kerama Kayak Center, runs sea kayak and SUP days with coral snorkelling on Zamami from ¥13,750 (half day ¥8,300) and goes whale watching on its cruiser Misaki until 31 March, with English booking online.
- [e-bike-okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/e-bike-okinawa): e-bike-okinawa in Wakasa, Naha, is an e-assist bike dealer that rents Panasonic and Yamaha city e-bikes for ¥3,850 up to four hours or ¥5,500 up to 24 hours, with liability insurance and Naha roadside help included.
- [e-CHARIty Okinawa (Discovery Bicycle Tours)](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/e-charity-okinawa): e-CHARIty Okinawa runs English-speaking guided e-bike tours on Tokashiki Island from ¥15,000 for three hours, meeting at Cafe Sunny Coral by the port, and delivers e-bikes to stays in Nago, Nakijin and Motobu from ¥5,800 a day (2026).
- [Earth Life Marine Club](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/earth-life-marine-club): Earth Life Marine Club in Janado, Kumejima, rents e-assist bicycles from ¥2,500 for six hours alongside its snorkel, dive and cruise trips and room-only lodging, with cash payment only and a little English.
- [Eco Guide Cafe](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/eco-guide-cafe-miyako): Eco Guide Cafe runs boat snorkelling from Sarahama on Irabu to the Blue Cave and the Bijyas reef, at ¥10,000 for three hours in 2026, and holds GSTC sustainable tourism certification.
- [Eight Cycling Ishigaki](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/eight-cycling-ishigaki): Eight Cycling Ishigaki rents mountain bikes and e-bikes from Yashima-cho in Ishigaki city and runs guided rides that start from Banna-dake, Kabira Bay or Yonehara, open 9:00–19:00; its website lists no prices.
- [Giant Adventure: Okinawa loop with Kohei Uchima](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/giant-adventure): Giant Adventure's guided loop of Okinawa's main island with Olympian Kohei Uchima covers about 420 km with about 3,500 m of climbing over four days, 10–13 December 2026, from ¥164,000 twin share with hotels, meals and a support car.
- [GOODDAYS STANDUP](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/gooddays-standup): GOODDAYS STANDUP is a SUP and whale-watching shop beside Ama Beach on Zamami whose 2027 whale season runs 23 January to 22 March on its own boat, the CALENDA GT, at ¥7,700 an adult; its 2026 SUP tours were limited to Japanese customers and Japan residents.
- [GREEN RIDE OKINAWA](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/green-ride-okinawa): GREEN RIDE OKINAWA is Okinawa Cellular's app-based e-bike rental with stations at resorts and cafés from Kouri to Naha and on Zamami, Aka and Tokashiki, costing ¥1,500 for the first hour or ¥6,000 for 6–9 hours, with English sign-up and foreign card and wallet payments.
- [Happy Pedal](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/happy-pedal-ishigaki): Happy Pedal rents Specialized and Cannondale road bikes and Specialized Diverge gravel bikes on Ishigaki for ¥8,000 the first day and ¥5,000 each extra day, tax included, delivered to hotels or the airport with a helmet, lights, lock and SPD or SPD-SL pedals on request.
- [Shima Cafe Heartland](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/heartland-kuroshima): Shima Cafe Heartland rents bicycles on Kuroshima from ¥800 for two hours to ¥1,600 a day and e-bikes from ¥1,500 to ¥3,000, beside the cow monument at Kuroshima port, open from the first ferry to the last.
- [Hi!cycling](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/hi-cycling-okinawa): Hi!cycling is Sky Tours' e-assist bike share on the HELLO CYCLING network in Okinawa, costing ¥120 per 15 minutes or ¥2,500 for 12 hours, and Nanjo City's tourism site lists it for visitors who want share bikes in Nanjo.
- [Hotel Oceans rentals](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/hotel-oceans-hateruma): Hotel Oceans on Hateruma rents bicycles, scooters and cars, with a discount for hotel guests and a pickup from Hateruma port 5 minutes away by car; it doesn't publish prices, so phone 0980-85-8787.
- [HUBCYCLE OKINAWA](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/hub-cycle-okinawa): HUBCYCLE OKINAWA is a repair and sales shop in Minato, central Nago, that fixes any bike and rents road, cross and kids' bikes from one hour with a free helmet and lock; it doesn't publish rental prices, so ask when you book.
- [Ikutouen Yachimun Dojo](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/ikutouen-yachimun-dojo): Ikutouen, a Tsuboya pottery run by the Takaesu family for six generations, teaches shisa making and other pottery classes at its Yachimun Dojo on Tsuboya Yachimun Street in Naha from ¥4,400 (2026), with the fired piece posted one to two and a half months later.
- [Iriomote Rent-a-Car](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/iriomote-rent-a-car): Iriomote Rent-a-Car keeps its cars in Ohara village and delivers free to Ohara Port and nearby inns, with kei cars from ¥4,000 for six hours or ¥5,000 for 24 hours in 2026.
- [Ishigaki Hoshizora Farm star tours](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/ishigaki-hoshizora-farm): Ishigaki Hoshizora Farm runs a one-hour stargazing tour at 21:00 on Nobare Cape on Ishigaki's east coast for ¥4,500 per adult in 2026, every night from February to November and never in December or January.
- [Ishigaki Total Marine](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/ishigaki-total-marine): Ishigaki Total Marine is an Ishigaki city dive shop run by an Ishigaki-born fisherman, with two boat dives from ¥17,600 in 2026 including hotel pickup and lunch, and a September 2026 blog post reporting mantas three days running.
- [Ishigaki-yaki Kiln pottery class](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/ishigaki-yaki-kiln): Ishigaki-yaki Kiln in Nagura teaches 60–90 minute pottery classes for ¥6,000 in 2026 and fires your piece in its signature glass-glazed sea blue, then posts it home about eight or nine months later.
- [Island Expert](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/island-expert-miyako): Island Expert is a Hirara dive and snorkel shop whose sea turtle search snorkel runs only from December to April, and it charges ¥16,500 for two boat dives in 2026 with hotel pickup.
- [Island Message](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/island-message-chatan): Island Message runs three-hour morning whale-watching trips in winter from Chatan's Minato district on the ISAMI, a 57-seat cruiser it now limits to 30 passengers, for ¥7,500 a person aged 4 and up, with a money-back guarantee in February.
- [Jelly Fish](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/jelly-fish-yonehara): Jelly Fish runs guided sea turtle snorkels and Blue Cave kayak trips for ¥8,000 in 2026 from a beach shop 30 seconds' walk from Yonehara Beach on Ishigaki's north coast, with island-born guides and English spoken.
- [Diving School & Service JOYJOY](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/joy-joy-zamami): JOYJOY is a long-running Zamami dive shop and guesthouse near Zamami Port that takes certified divers on two boat dives a day for ¥14,300 (tax included, 2024–26 rate), with an English page for visiting divers.
- [Kabira Marine Service](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/kabira-marine-service): Kabira Marine Service runs 30-minute glass-bottom boat trips on Kabira Bay every 15 minutes from 9:00 to 17:00, at ¥2,300 for adults in 2026, from its desk in the Kabira community building by Kabira Park.
- [Kayak & SUP ease](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/kayak-sup-ease): Kayak & SUP ease runs two-hour guided mangrove kayak tours on the Hija River in Kadena five times a day, every day, for ¥6,000 an adult (October 2026), from a shop in Mizugama with free parking.
- [Iriomote Canoe Tour Kazaguruma](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/kazaguruma-iriomote): Iriomote Canoe Tour Kazaguruma runs guided canoe and trekking trips from Uehara to Pinaisara Falls, at ¥13,500–15,000 for the full day in 2026 with lunch and the ¥500 Taketomi Town permit fee included, and lists English among its guides' languages.
- [Kohama-jima Kanko rent-a-car](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/kohama-kanko-rent-a-car): Kohama-jima Kanko rents cars by the hour on Kohama, at ¥1,500 for an hour or ¥5,000 for up to six hours, with pickup at Kohama port when you book ahead.
- [Kohama-jima Sogo Annaijo](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/kohama-sogo-annaijo): Kohama-jima Sogo Annaijo rents bicycles, scooters and cars 50 m from the Kohama ferry pier, two minutes on foot; it doesn't publish prices online, so phone 0980-85-3571.
- [Kumejima Escort Tours](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/kumejima-escort-tours): Kumejima Escort Tours runs glass-bottom boats to the Hatenohama sandbar off Kume-jima, with hotel pickup and a 2.5-hour half day at ¥3,500 for adults in 2026, and a full day with lunch from late May to October.
- [Kumejima Kaiyo Leisure](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/kumejima-kaiyo-leisure): Kumejima Kaiyo Leisure sails from Tomari Fisherina to the Hatenohama sandbar year-round, with a ¥3,500 half day that runs three hours in summer and two in winter. The company says its glass-bottom boat shows sea turtles and coral on the way.
- [Kumejima Kaiyu Jimusho](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/kumejima-kaiyu-jimusho): Kumejima Kaiyu Jimusho is a Kume-jima dive shop whose owner belongs to the local fishing co-op and has guided divers for more than 25 years, and it takes small groups diving and snorkelling from ¥11,000 in 2026.
- [Kumejima Tourism Association sea kayak to the hidden islets](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/kumejima-sea-kayak-hidden-islets): The Kumejima Tourism Association's sea kayak trip paddles two-person sit-on-tops from Ou-jima's east coast to small reef islets for about 2.5 hours, at ¥11,000 per adult in 2026, from April to September only.
- [Kumejima Uma Bokujo horse ranch](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/kumejima-uma-bokujo): Kumejima Uma Bokujo is a family horse ranch on Kume-jima where you ride small, gentle Yonaguni horses along Eef beach from ¥7,000 for 30 minutes in 2026, or into the hills on longer routes.
- [Kunigami Village Forest Park guided tours](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/kunigami-forest-park-tours): Kunigami Village Forest Park in Hentona, Kunigami, runs 90-minute guided night walks in the Yanbaru forest and 75-minute stargazing sessions at its observatory for ¥6,600 an adult (VELTRA, October 2026), meeting at the Yanbaru Forest Toy Museum and closed on Tuesdays.
- [Kunigami Village Tourist Information rental bikes](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/kunigami-tourism-association-rental): The Kunigami Village Tourism Association lends three geared bikes from its information desk in Okuma, next to the Yuiyui Kunigami roadside station, for ¥800 up to four hours or ¥1,500 until the 17:00 close.
- [Kuroshima Rental Cycle](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/kuroshima-rental-cycle): Kuroshima Rental Cycle rents bicycles for ¥1,200 a day and e-bikes for ¥2,500 a day near Kuroshima port, rents by the hour too, and collects riders from the ferry by tuk-tuk; it opens 9:00–17:00.
- [Mangrove Rent-a-Car](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/mangrove-rent-a-car-kumejima): Mangrove Rent-a-Car rents mostly kei cars on Kume-jima, with a counter at Kumejima Airport for direct pickup and return, and since April 2025 no handovers at Kaneshiro port.
- [Marine Club Berry Naha](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/marine-club-berry-naha): Marine Club Berry Naha, the sister shop of Marine House Seasir, runs year-round Kerama snorkel days from Naha from ¥7,000 (by season) and four-hour whale-watching trips from 19 December 2026 to 31 March 2027 from ¥5,000, with a full refund if no whale is seen from 1 February.
- [Marine Guide Kumejima](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/marine-guide-kumejima): Marine Guide Kumejima takes small private groups from Tomari Fisherina to the far tip of the Hatenohama sandbar from ¥7,000 a person in 2026, and dogs are welcome on board.
- [Marine House Seasir](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/marine-house-seasir): Marine House Seasir runs Kerama day dives from its Naha shop for ¥22,800 (2026–27 rate) and dive-and-stay packages at its Aka Island base, and both branches close for part of winter 2026–27; the company began on Aka in 1983 and calls itself Okinawa's largest diving company.
- [Marine Shop Heartland](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/marine-shop-heartland): Marine Shop Heartland, five minutes' walk from Zamami Port, runs 2.5-hour whale-watching trips from January to March on the Cetius, a 30-passenger association boat, for ¥6,000 an adult including tax, and welcomes foreign guests by email.
- [Maruhachi Rental Cycle](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/maruhachi-rental-cycle-taketomi): Maruhachi Rental Cycle rents bicycles on Taketomi-jima for ¥1,000 for two hours and ¥2,000 flat for four hours or more, and e-bikes for ¥1,600 and ¥3,200, from the middle of the village with a shuttle waiting at the port; it takes no bookings.
- [Kohama Asobi Senmonten mine](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/mine-kohama): mine is a Kohama snorkel shop whose most popular day visits Panari (Aragusuku), Kuroshima and the phantom island sandbar for ¥16,500 per adult in 2026, leaving from Kohama port.
- [Minemoto Rental Cycle](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/minemoto-rental-cycle-taketomi): Minemoto Rental Cycle rents city bikes, e-bikes, kids' bikes and child-seat bikes on Taketomi-jima three minutes' walk from the port, next to the Yugafu-kan visitor centre, with English-capable staff and hours of 9:00–17:00.
- [Azamiya Minsah Kogeikan weaving experience](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/minsah-kogeikan-ishigaki): Azamiya's Minsah Kogeikan in Ishigaki city teaches visitors to weave Yaeyama minsah on hand looms, starting with a ¥2,000 coaster that takes about 30 minutes (2026 prices).
- [Miyako Craft Village weaving and dyeing workshop](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/miyako-taiken-kogeimura-weaving): The weaving and dyeing workshop in the Miyako Craft Village teaches Miyako-ori mat weaving and indigo shibori from ¥2,750 in 2026, and it sits inside the city's Tropical Plant Garden in Hirara. It is the place for hands-on weaving now that the Traditional Crafts Centre offers none.
- [Miyakojima Kanko Rent-a-Car](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/miyakojima-kanko-rent-a-car): Miyakojima Kanko Rent-a-Car rents kei cars from ¥3,000 a day in 2026 from its Hirara office, with free pickup at Miyako and Shimojishima airports and navigation and a dashcam in every car.
- [Nakama River Mangrove Cruise (Iriomote Kotsu)](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/nakama-river-mangrove-cruise): Iriomote Kotsu's Nakama River Mangrove Cruise leaves from beside Ohara Port for a 50–60 minute run up the Nakama River through Japan's largest mangrove forest, at ¥3,500 for adults from October 2026, with no booking needed.
- [Nangoku Rent-a-Car](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/nangoku-rent-a-car-yoron): Nangoku Rent-a-Car has rented cars and two-wheelers in Chabana for more than 40 years, and in 2026 its kei cars start at ¥3,300 and mopeds at ¥2,000. The office is five minutes from Yoron's airport and port.
- [Nature Land Kayaks](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/nature-land-kayaks): Nature Land Kayaks is a family-run kayak and whale-watching outfit that has guided on Zamami since 2001, with half-day whale trips for ¥7,700 an adult from 8 January to 28 March 2027 and an English booking form.
- [Nature Mirai-kan](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/nature-mirai-kan): Nature Mirai-kan in Kin runs two-hour guided canoe trips through the Okukubi River mangroves for ¥4,950 an adult, year-round on a tide timetable, with children welcome from age 2.
- [neos](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/neos-ginowan): neos is an outdoor shop in Kakazu, Ginowan, with a Trek road-bike corner and a sports-bike mechanic, open Monday to Friday 11:00–20:00 and weekends 9:30–19:00 (closed Wednesdays); it runs occasional free group rides and has no rental fleet.
- [Nippon Rent-A-Car](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/nippon-rent-a-car): Nippon Rent-A-Car rents from four Naha-area offices (Naha Airport, Naha Airport Naminoue, Omoromachi Station and Kencho-mae) with an English booking site, and accepts 1949 Geneva Convention International Driving Permits; its Okinawa coupon of about 40% off ends with January 2027 pickups.
- [Nitta Kanko](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/nitta-kanko-taketomi): Nitta Kanko rents city bikes on Taketomi-jima for ¥1,000 up to two hours, ¥1,500 up to three and ¥2,000 at most, tax included, from the village near the Nagomi tower, with a free shuttle from the port and no reservations.
- ['Ohana Outfitters](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/ohana-outfitters-iriomote): 'Ohana Outfitters is a small Uehara guiding outfit that starts most trips before dawn, with sunrise kayaks to Pinaisara Falls from ¥19,800 and a sunrise trek to the top of Mt Komi for ¥33,000 a person in 2026, permits included.
- [Okinawa Karate Kaikan](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/okinawa-karate-kaikan): Okinawa Karate Kaikan, the prefecture's karate centre on the old Tomigusuku castle grounds, has exhibition rooms on the history of Okinawan karate (¥400 an adult, closed Wednesdays) and books visitors into hands-on karate sessions with a teacher at least a month ahead.
- [Okinawa Kenpo Sohonbu Nakamura Dojo](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/okinawa-kenpo-nakamura-dojo): Okinawa Kenpo Sohonbu Nakamura Dojo teaches visitors 90-minute karate and kobudo sessions with Ryukyu history at its dojos in Nago and Nakijin; Matsuda Tatsunori, Hanshi 9th dan, leads them, and English is available on request through VELTRA.
- [Okinawa Longevity Table](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/okinawa-longevity-table): Okinawa Longevity Table, in an old-style house five minutes' walk from Ocean Expo Park in Motobu, serves a 90-minute experience of a short film made with near-centenarian grandmothers and a traditional Okinawan tray meal on yachimun, for up to eight guests (booked through VELTRA).
- [Okinawa Ringyo](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/okinawa-ringyo): Okinawa Ringyo, which calls itself Okinawa's largest bicycle specialist, rents GIANT and Anchor road bikes from ¥4,400 a day (2026) out of its Haebaru workshop 25–30 minutes by car from Naha Airport, and takes English bookings by email.
- [ORIX Rent-A-Car](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/orix-rent-a-car): ORIX Rent-A-Car runs a dedicated foreign-language counter at its Toyosaki station in Tomigusuku, about 20 minutes by free shuttle from Naha Airport and open 9:00–19:00 daily, with compact cars from ¥8,250 for 24 hours at the regular 2026–27 rate.
- [OTS Rent-a-car](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/ots-rent-a-car): OTS Rent-a-car is an Okinawa-based rental company whose main office at Rinku-Toyosaki in Tomigusuku sits about 15 minutes from Naha Airport by free shuttle, with English-speaking staff, multilingual voice navigation in every car and a ¥3,000 flat-rate ETC card for 120 hours.
- [Piranha Divers Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/piranha-divers): Piranha Divers Okinawa is an English- and German-speaking dive shop in northern Onna that runs shore dives at Maeda and Sunabe from ¥20,900, boat trips to the USS Emmons wreck and Minna, and Kerama days for experienced divers (2026 prices).
- [PolePoleMarine385](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/polepole-marine-385-miyako): PolePoleMarine385 runs private sea turtle snorkel tours on Miyako-jima for one group at a time, at ¥7,000 a person in 2026, and its tourism association listing claims a 100% turtle encounter rate.
- [Pottering Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/pottering-okinawa-ishigaki): Pottering Okinawa rents road bikes on Ishigaki from ¥7,000 for the first 24 hours (¥9,000 for its Felt Z4 and Colnago carbon bikes, tax excluded) and Panasonic Jetter e-bikes from ¥8,800, with delivery to hotels, the airport and the port included.
- [Rakuni Koto](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/rakuni-koto-yonaguni): Rakuni Koto rents Panasonic ViVi DX e-bikes on Yonaguni from Higawa for ¥2,500 (4 hours), ¥3,000 (8 hours) or ¥3,500 (24 hours), with delivery for ¥500 each way and free cancellation for rain.
- [Reef Encounters Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/reef-encounters): Reef Encounters Okinawa has looked after international divers from its shop on the Miyagi coast in Chatan since 1995, with Sunabe shore dives from ¥13,200 and three-tank Kerama boat days for ¥24,200 including tax.
- [Rental Ishikawa](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/rental-ishikawa-zamami): Rental Ishikawa on Zamami rents bicycles, e-assist bikes, scooters and kick-scooters for cash, one of the counters on the Zamami Village Tourism Association's 2026 rental list; prices aren't published, so phone 098-987-2202.
- [Rental-ya Yui](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/rental-ya-yui-kohama): Rental-ya Yui rents bicycles, electric-assist bikes, children's bikes, scooters and cars in front of Kohama port, with bicycles listed from ¥300 an hour to ¥1,500 for five to twelve hours in a 2023 roundup.
- [Ryu-Q Rental Cycle](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/ryu-q-rental-cycle): Ryu-Q Rental Cycle rents road bikes in Naha's Makishi neighbourhood for ¥3,000 a day or ¥12,400 a week (2025 price list), two minutes' walk from Makishi or Asato monorail station, and will store a bike box or rinko bag for riders who flew in with their own bike.
- [Ryukyu Glass Village](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/ryukyu-glass-village): Ryukyu Glass Village in Fukuchi, Itoman, opens every day 9:30–17:30 for glass blowing with a craftsman from ¥4,400 (the piece ships 2–7 days later) and walk-in glass crafts from ¥3,300 that you take home the same day.
- [Ryukyu indigo dyeing at Okinawa Kogei no Mori](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/ryukyu-indigo-dyeing-kogei-no-mori): A Ryukyu indigo workshop on the second floor of Okinawa Kogei no Mori in Tomigusuku, about 15 minutes by car from Naha Airport, teaches tie-dye with Yanbaru-grown indigo from ¥2,500 for a handkerchief, ready to take home the same day.
- [Marine Club Sa-Wes Yonaguni](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/sawes-yonaguni): Marine Club Sa-Wes is the Yonaguni dive shop of Kihachiro Aratake, who found the island's underwater ruins in 1986, and it dives the hammerhead sites from November to May, with two boat dives at ¥17,000 in 2026.
- [SEALOVERS OKINAWA](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/sealovers-okinawa): SEALOVERS OKINAWA runs two-hour Blue Cave snorkel trips by boat from Maeganeku in Onna for ¥4,950–¥5,450 (OneTwoSmile, October 2026); the guides brief in simple English, and the boat carries warm water and loaner coats in winter.
- [Seven Ocean's Club (Blue Ocean Okinawa)](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/seven-oceans-club): Seven Ocean's Club, which also trades as Blue Ocean Okinawa, runs two-hour Blue Cave boat snorkel trips with fish feeding from Maeganeku in Onna for ¥4,500 a person (October 2026), open daily 7:30–18:00.
- [Shima no Cycling Miyakojima](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/shima-no-cycling-miyakojima): Shima no Cycling Miyakojima rents Tokyobike Sport road bikes for ¥4,000 a day and 8-speed cross bikes for ¥3,000 a day from central Hirara when you book two or more days ahead (October 2026 price list), with no delivery. Road bikes go only to riders who can change a tube.
- [Shimasora Pottering](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/shimasora-pottering-shimojishima): Shimasora Pottering rents geared folding bicycles for ¥3,000 a day and 16-inch folding e-bikes for ¥4,800 a day from the information counter at Miyako Shimojishima Airport (2026/27 prices), for riders aged 10 and over and at least 140 cm tall.
- [Shuri Ryusen](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/shuri-ryusen): Shuri Ryusen, a dye house five minutes' walk from Shuri Castle, runs 50-minute coral-dyeing sessions on a T-shirt or tote for ¥3,850 an adult (2026), with the piece ready to take home the same day and English instructions for small groups.
- [Sky Rent-a-car](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/sky-rent-a-car): Sky Rent-a-car's Naha Airport office at Gushi 1-chome in Naha is a free shuttle ride from the terminal and opens every day 8:00–20:00, with a second main-island office in Onna since July 2025; its site is in Japanese.
- [Smile Fish Diving Service](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/smile-fish-diving-iriomote): Smile Fish Diving Service in Uehara runs boat dives and snorkelling on Iriomote's north coast and Barasu reefs, with English-speaking instructors on staff and two fun dives for ¥15,000 in 2026.
- [Southward Kayak Club](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/southward-kayak-club): Southward Kayak Club takes groups from age 3 up the Okukubi River mangrove in Kin, which Japan's environment ministry lists among its 500 important wetlands, then out to sea for a beach landing, for ¥4,800 an adult (OneTwoSmile, October 2026).
- [SpiceRoads: Okinawa by Road Bike](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/spiceroads-okinawa): SpiceRoads' Okinawa by Road Bike is an eight-day, English-guided clockwise loop of Okinawa's main island covering 387 km over six riding days, priced at US$4,695–4,995 with departures in January and March 2027 and hire bikes from US$320.
- [Sunset Bikes](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/sunset-bikes): Sunset Bikes on Mihama's main street near American Village in Chatan repairs bikes of any brand and rents three road bikes from ¥1,200 for the first hour or ¥8,400 for 24 hours (2026).
- [Taketomi Kanko Center](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/taketomi-kanko-center): Taketomi Kanko Center rents city bikes on Taketomi-jima alongside its water-buffalo cart rides, at 441 Taketomi with a free shuttle from the port, open 8:45–16:35; it takes cashless payment only.
- [Taketomi-jima Kotsu bus tours](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/taketomi-kotsu): Taketomi-jima Kotsu runs the island's route bus at ¥300 a ride and a one-hour guided bus tour from the port to the star-sand beach and the red-tiled village for ¥2,800 per adult.
- [TANDY Marine](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/tandy-marine-yoron): TANDY Marine has run a beach service on Okanekuu beach since Yoron's tourism began, and its boat snorkel tours start at ¥9,500 in 2026, with rented wetsuits for the winter months.
- [Tenbusu Naha Traditional Craft Experience](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/tenbusu-naha-craft-experience): Tenbusu Naha, the city-run cultural centre at the Makishi end of Kokusai-dori, teaches 30- to 90-minute sessions in bingata dyeing from ¥1,650, Shuri weaving from ¥2,200, raised lacquer and Ryukyu glass blowing on its second floor (2026 prices).
- [Times Car Rental](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/times-car-rental): Times Car Rental's Naha Airport station sits about 1.5 km from the terminal in Kagamizu, reached by a free shuttle from bus stop No. 11, open every day 9:00–18:00, with English, Chinese and Korean support and an ETC reader in every car.
- [TM Planning (Ie-jima rentals)](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/tm-planning-iejima): TM Planning is the bicycle, scooter and car rental in Kawahira that Ie Village's official site lists for Ie-jima, with 240 bikes at ¥400 an hour or ¥1,000 a day on the village's 2019 page; we could not confirm 2026 prices, so phone 0980-49-5208 first.
- [Tokashiki Whale Watching Association](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/tokashiki-whale-watching-association): The Tokashiki Whale Watching Association runs one two-hour morning whale trip a day from Tokashiki Port during a deliberately short season (24 January to 8 March in 2026), at ¥8,000 before tax, through thirteen member boats.
- [Tome Cruise](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/tome-cruise-yoron): Tome Cruise runs small boats to Yoron's Yurigahama sandbar from Okanekuu beach, from ¥3,850 per adult in 2026, and adds sea turtle snorkel trips.
- [Tomori Kanko](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/tomori-kanko-taketomi): Tomori Kanko rents bicycles on Taketomi-jima from ¥1,000 for two hours and e-bikes from ¥1,750, with a shuttle from Taketomi port for renters who have registered online beforehand; it opens 9:00–17:00 and staff speak Japanese only.
- [Total Marine Spot NEWS](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/total-marine-spot-news): Total Marine Spot NEWS runs three-hour catamaran trips from Naha's Miegusuku Port to snorkel the Kerama national park waters from ¥7,500, and in winter the same boat goes whale watching twice a day (20 December 2025 to 5 April 2026 last season, from ¥6,000 an adult).
- [UMIUSAGI / UMIASIBI](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/umiasibi-kadena): UMIASIBI runs two-hour mangrove SUP tours on the calm lower Hija River in Kadena for ¥6,000 an adult (OneTwoSmile, October 2026), from age 6, with gear and same-day guide photos included.
- [Urauchigawa Kanko](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/urauchigawa-kanko): Urauchigawa Kanko runs the sightseeing boats about 8 km up the Urauchi River on Iriomote to Gunkan-iwa, from ¥3,000 for adults in 2026, and sells a self-guided add-on walk to Mariyudu and Kampire falls.
- [Utuimuchi Project sanshin experience](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/utuimuchi-project-sanshin): Utuimuchi Project in Mihama, Chatan, a seven-minute walk from American Village, teaches beginners to play Okinawan folk songs on the sanshin in hourly sessions, with a free photo in Ryukyu court dress, booked through VELTRA.
- [Yaeyama Kanko Ferry day tours](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/yaeyama-kanko-ferry-tours): Yaeyama Kanko Ferry sells day tours from Ishigaki's port terminal with the ferry fare built in, from a ¥5,200 Taketomi buffalo cart package to its ¥16,000 Nakama River and Yubu-jima day on Iriomote (2026 prices, cheaper when booked on its own site).
- [Yamaneko Rent-a-Car](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/yamaneko-rent-a-car-iriomote): Yamaneko Rent-a-Car is Iriomote Kotsu's car rental, with offices at Ohara and Uehara, free pickup at both ports, fuel included and kei cars from ¥7,500 for 24 hours in 2026.
- [Yambaru Nature Guide Wanyu](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/yambaru-nature-guide-wanyu): Yambaru Nature Guide Wanyu is a Kunigami-certified nature guide who leads night drives for the Okinawa rail from ¥12,000 a person and dawn birding in the Yanbaru forest, best from March to October, and describes the business as the only certified English-speaking guide in Kunigami.
- [Yanbaru Eco-Tourism Institute](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/yanbaru-ecotourism-institute): Yanbaru Eco-Tourism Institute in Ada, on Kunigami's east coast, guides small groups by canoe through the Ada River mangrove, by sea kayak to the reef island of Ada-ga-shima and on forest treks, with times set by the tide; its site notes Hiji Falls has been closed since November 2024 storm damage.
- [Yanbaru Experience (Higashi Village Tourism Promotion Council)](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/yanbaru-experience-higashi): Yanbaru Experience is Higashi Village's tourism council booking site, and it places guests on 1.5–2 hour guided canoe trips through the protected Gesashi Bay mangroves from ¥7,000 an adult and on three-hour night nature watches in the Yanbaru forest with the village's registered eco-tour guides, some of whom speak English.
- [Yanbaru Shizenjuku (Yanbaru Nature School)](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/yanbaru-shizenjuku): Yanbaru Shizenjuku, the Higashi village nature school founded in Gesashi in April 1999, runs small-group canoe tours through the Gesashi River mangrove at high tide, from ¥5,500 for two hours to ¥7,000 for three hours out to the sea.
- [Yonaguni Honda](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/yonaguni-honda): Yonaguni Honda rents non-electric bicycles for ¥2,000 for up to 24 hours, alongside mopeds and cars, from Sonai, 2.5 km east of Yonaguni Airport, open 8:00–18:00.
- [Yoron Diving Service](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/yoron-diving-service): Yoron Diving Service dives all year by moving to south-coast sites in the winter north wind, and it charges ¥14,000 for two boat dives including pickup. The Yoron Tourism Association calls it the island's oldest dive shop.
- [Yoron Rent-a-Car](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/yoron-rent-a-car): Yoron Rent-a-Car rents Bridgestone e-bikes for ¥2,000 and three-speed bicycles for ¥1,500 per 24 hours on Yoron, or ¥2,500 and ¥1,800 with delivery and collection, from inside the Yoron Honda dealership.
- [Yoron-to Seamans Club](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/yoron-seamans-club): Yoron-to Seamans Club runs glass-bottom boats from Mugiya Seamans Beach to the Yurigahama sandbar all year, from ¥3,850 a person in 2026, timed to each day's low tide.
- [Yubu Island Subtropical Botanical Garden water buffalo carts](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/yubujima-buffalo-carts): Yubu Island's water buffalo carts haul visitors across the shallow channel from Iriomote's east coast to a subtropical botanical garden, every 15 minutes from 9:15, for ¥2,000 return with admission in 2026.
- [Kumejima Tsumugi no Sato Yuimaru-kan](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/yuimarukan-kumejima-tsumugi): Yuimaru-kan in Maja is the Kumejima tsumugi co-op's centre, where visitors weave a coaster of the island's silk tsumugi in about 30 minutes for ¥3,000 in 2026 or dye cloth with its plant dyes.
- [ZAMAMI LIFE](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/zamami-life): ZAMAMI LIFE is a Zamami boat-snorkelling and skin-diving guide with more than 20 years on the island who takes small groups to over 30 sites, including turtle spots out of reach from the shore, from ¥8,000 for a two-site trip of about 2.5 hours.
- [Zamami Whale Watching Association](https://rideokinawa.com/operators/zamami-whale-watching-association): The Zamami Whale Watching Association runs 1–2 hour humpback trips from Zamami Port between early January and late March (8 January to 25 March in 2026), at ¥7,700 an adult in 2026, with spotters on the island's lookouts guiding nine member boats by radio.

## Events and seasons
- [Beach opening season (umibiraki)](https://rideokinawa.com/events/beach-opening): Okinawa's beaches hold their umibiraki (海開き, opening ceremonies) between late March and late April, and OCVB says the swimming season then lasts until about October. The Yaeyama Islands hold their beach opening in March.
- [Okinawa cherry blossom season](https://rideokinawa.com/events/cherry-blossom-season): Okinawa's cherry blossom season runs from January to mid-February, when the deep pink kanhizakura (寒緋桜) opens first in the north of Okinawa Island and the bloom works its way south. The big festivals at Yaedake in Motobu and at Nago Castle Park fall in the second half of January and run into February.
- [Churashima Okinawa Century Run](https://rideokinawa.com/events/churashima-okinawa-century-run): The Churashima Okinawa Century Run was a January ride from Onna with a 167 km century course through central and northern Okinawa, last confirmed as its 10th edition on 19–20 January 2019; we found no later edition, so treat it as lapsed until the organizers announce otherwise.
- [Cycle Ball Okiichi (Okinawa island loop challenge)](https://rideokinawa.com/events/cycle-ball-okiichi): Cycle Ball Okiichi was Tour de Nippon's Okinawa island-loop challenge for winter 2025–26, a free app-tracked ride of 15 to 380 km open from 21 November 2025 to 15 February 2026 plus a supported 415 km group loop on 7–10 February 2026 from ¥38,500; no 2026–27 Okinawa stage had been announced by October 2026.
- [Okinawa Zento Eisa Festival](https://rideokinawa.com/events/eisa-festival): The Okinawa Zento Eisa Festival brings eisa drum dance groups from across the island to Okinawa City on the first weekend after the lunar Obon holiday. The 71st festival ran from 4 to 6 September 2026.
- [Ie-jima Lily Festival](https://rideokinawa.com/events/ie-jima-lily-festival): The Ie-jima Lily Festival fills Lily Field Park on Ie-jima with white Easter lilies (teppō-yuri) and lilies from around the world from late April into early May. The 29th festival ran from 25 April to 5 May 2026.
- [Ishigaki Island Marathon](https://rideokinawa.com/events/ishigaki-marathon): The Ishigaki Island Marathon starts and finishes at Ishigaki City Central Sports Park with races from 10 km up to the full marathon. The 24th edition is on Sunday 17 January 2027, and online entry closes on 31 October 2026.
- [Ishigaki Triathlon](https://rideokinawa.com/events/ishigaki-triathlon): The Ishigaki Triathlon is an Olympic-distance race on Ishigaki (1.5 km swim, 40 km bike, 10 km run) held in April; the 2027 race is on Sunday 18 April, and the 2026 race ran on 12 April.
- [Habu-kurage box jellyfish season](https://rideokinawa.com/events/jellyfish-season): Okinawa Prefecture's habu-kurage warning runs from 1 June to 30 September, the months when this venomous box jellyfish stings the most swimmers. In 2025 habu-kurage caused 81 of the 199 stings and bites by dangerous sea creatures reported in the prefecture.
- [All Japan Triathlon Miyakojima](https://rideokinawa.com/events/miyakojima-triathlon): The All Japan Triathlon Miyakojima is a 168.195 km race on Miyako-jima (3 km swim, 123 km bike, 42.195 km run) held each April; the 41st edition is on Sunday 25 April 2027, with entries open 1–31 October 2026 at ¥65,000.
- [Motobu Yaedake Cherry Blossom Festival](https://rideokinawa.com/events/motobu-yaedake-sakura-matsuri): The Motobu Yaedake Cherry Blossom Festival opens in mid-January at Yaedake Sakura-no-Mori Park in Motobu, where more than 7,000 kanhizakura trees line the road of about 4 km to the 453.4 m summit. The 48th festival ran from 17 January to 8 February 2026, and the 2027 dates had not been set by October 2026.
- [Nago Cherry Blossom Festival](https://rideokinawa.com/events/nago-sakura-matsuri): The Nago Cherry Blossom Festival takes over Nago Castle Park and the centre of Nago on the last weekend of January. The 64th festival is planned for 30–31 January 2027.
- [NAHA Marathon](https://rideokinawa.com/events/naha-marathon): The NAHA Marathon runs 42.195 km from central Naha through the southern towns of Haebaru, Yaese, Itoman and Tomigusuku by way of the Peace Memorial Park. The 40th race is on Sunday 6 December 2026, with 30,000 places and a limit of 6 hours 15 minutes.
- [Naha Great Tug-of-War](https://rideokinawa.com/events/naha-tug-of-war): The Naha Great Tug-of-War pulls a 200 m rice-straw rope weighing 40 tonnes across Route 58 at the Kumoji crossing in central Naha. The 56th tug is planned for Sunday 11 October 2026, from 13:30 to 16:10.
- [Nakijin Gusuku Cherry Blossom Festival](https://rideokinawa.com/events/nakijin-gusuku-sakura-matsuri): The Nakijin Gusuku Cherry Blossom Festival lights up the stone walls of Nakijin Castle (今帰仁城跡) while its kanhizakura are in bloom. The 19th festival ran from 31 January to 8 February 2026, and the 2027 dates had not been announced by October 2026.
- [Okinawa Cycling Association monthly ride](https://rideokinawa.com/events/okinawa-cycling-association-monthly-ride): The Okinawa Cycling Association's monthly ride is a guided Sunday group ride (33 km in October 2026) for ¥1,500, or ¥1,000 for students, with insurance, snacks and ride leaders included, booked through Okinawa Ringyo and scheduled through the winter, including 15 February 2026 from Yonabaru.
- [Okinawa Marathon](https://rideokinawa.com/events/okinawa-marathon): The Okinawa Marathon is a full marathon and 10 km road race from the Okinawa Prefectural Sports Park in Okinawa City. The 31st race comes back on Sunday 21 February 2027 after the organisers paused the February 2026 race.
- [Pro baseball spring camps](https://rideokinawa.com/events/okinawa-spring-camp-baseball): OCVB listed spring camps on Okinawa Island in February 2026 for nine Japanese pro baseball teams and Korea's Samsung Lions, and six of the Japanese teams started on 1 February. The last camp to finish was the Yomiuri Giants' in Naha on 1 March.
- [Paantu](https://rideokinawa.com/events/paantu): Paantu is a sacred rite of visiting gods held by the villages of Shimajiri and Nobaru on Miyako-jima, and UNESCO listed it in 2018. The villages keep the dates to themselves until just before, because visitors who did not understand the rite have caused trouble.
- [Ryukyu Kaiensai fireworks](https://rideokinawa.com/events/ryukyu-kaiensai): Ryukyu Kaiensai is a show of about 10,000 fireworks set to music over Ginowan Tropical Beach, which its organisers bill as the earliest big summer fireworks in Japan. The 2026 show was on Saturday 11 April from 19:00.
- [Shurijo Revival Festival](https://rideokinawa.com/events/shurijo-festival): The Shurijo Revival Festival fills Shuri Castle Park and Kokusai-dori with royal processions and performances from 1 to 3 November. The 2026 festival falls in the year the rebuilt main hall of Shuri Castle is completed.
- [Sugar Ride Kumejima](https://rideokinawa.com/events/sugar-ride-kumejima): Sugar Ride Kumejima is a non-competitive ride on Kumejima with a 90 km Athlete Course and a 45 km round-the-island course; its 13th edition was set for 25–26 April 2026, with entry from ¥13,000 and a few rental e-bike places.
- [Sunrise Ride (Nakagusuku Castle sunrise walk and ride)](https://rideokinawa.com/events/sunrise-ride-nakagusuku): The Sunrise Ride is a free early-morning walk and easy 15–18 km ride from Nakagusuku Castle on Okinawa's east coast, run by the four east-coast towns each February or March (1 March 2026), with 25 free loan bikes for the first to sign up.
- [Tour de Miyakojima](https://rideokinawa.com/events/tour-de-miyakojima): Tour de Miyakojima was a road race on Miyako-jima held in June or July, last confirmed on 10 June 2018 with 136 km and 74 km courses; no edition has been announced for 2026 or 2027 as of October 2026.
- [Tour de Okinawa](https://rideokinawa.com/events/tour-de-okinawa): Tour de Okinawa is the island's big November cycling weekend, held on 7–8 November 2026 around Nago and Yanbaru, with a UCI class 1.2 men's race, citizen races from 10 to 200 km and rides from a 40 km Ie-jima family loop to a 325 km two-day lap of the main island.
- [Okinawa typhoon season](https://rideokinawa.com/events/typhoon-season): Okinawa's typhoon season runs from about June to October, and JMA's 1991–2020 normals count 7.7 typhoons a year passing within 300 km of a weather station in the Okinawa region, with August the busiest month at 2.2.
- [Kerama humpback whale season](https://rideokinawa.com/events/whale-season-kerama): Humpback whales gather around the Kerama Islands from about late December to early April, and the Okinawa Churashima Foundation puts their mating peak between late January and late February. Zamami's whale-watching association ran its 2026 boats from 8 January to 25 March at ¥7,700 per adult.
- [Yaeyama harvest festivals](https://rideokinawa.com/events/yaeyama-harvest-festivals): The Yaeyama Islands hold their harvest festivals (豊年祭, puurii on Ishigaki) in July and August, and Taketomi's Tanadui and Iriomote's Shitsi follow in the ninth and tenth lunar months. They are village rites for the gods first, and Ishigaki's tourism association asks visitors to watch without getting in the way.
- [Taketomi Yamaneko Marathon](https://rideokinawa.com/events/yamaneko-marathon): The Taketomi Yamaneko Marathon is a road race on Iriomote that starts and finishes at Uehara Elementary School in the west of the island, with courses from 5 km up to 23 km. The 32nd edition is on Saturday 13 February 2027.
- [Yoron Jugoya Odori](https://rideokinawa.com/events/yoron-jugoya-odori): Yoron's Jugoya Odori is a harvest dance offered at Jinushi Shrine (地主神社) in Gusuku village on the 15th day of the third, eighth and tenth lunar months. The last 2026 performance is on Monday 23 November.
- [Yoron Marathon](https://rideokinawa.com/events/yoron-marathon): The Yoron Marathon is a full and half marathon on Yoron's outer island road, starting and finishing on the Chabana coast; the 33rd edition is on Sunday 29 November 2026, with about 800 places at ¥10,000.
- [Yukiya Arashiro Cycling Event](https://rideokinawa.com/events/yukiya-arashiro-cycling-event): The Yukiya Arashiro Cycling Event is a non-competitive ride on Ishigaki with the pro cyclist Yukiya Arashiro on the last weekend of November; the 2026 ride is on Sunday 29 November with about 115 km and 1,200 m of climbing, from ¥22,000.

## Practical guides
- [How do you bring your own bike to Okinawa?](https://rideokinawa.com/guides/bringing-your-bike): All seven domestic airlines we checked fly bikes into Naha, and JAL, JTA, RAC, ANA and Skymark carry one inside your free allowance. Here's what each charges, how the monorail and buses treat a rinko bag, and where to leave the empty box.
- [How do you hop between Okinawa's islands?](https://rideokinawa.com/guides/island-hopping): Boats from Naha reach the Keramas and Kume-jima, Ishigaki's Ritou Terminal sends high-speed boats across the Yaeyamas, and Miyako and Ishigaki are a flight from Naha. Here's which boats carry a bike and what the winter north wind does to the timetable.
- [How does cycling differ on Okinawa's outer islands?](https://rideokinawa.com/guides/riding-the-outer-islands): Miyako's bridges and capes take the full winter north-northeasterly, Taketomi's village lanes are coral sand, Iriomote asks for 40 km/h to protect its wildcats, and of the two Yaeyama ferry companies only Anei Kanko loads an unbagged bike on its high-speed boats.
- [What do you need to know before riding a bike on Okinawa's main island?](https://rideokinawa.com/guides/riding-on-okinawa-main-island): Keep left, stay off Route 58 where you can, light up in tunnels, and know that since April 2026 police can fine riders aged 16 and over on the spot. Here are the rules, the fines and the island's hazards, from heat and habu to the Yanbaru rail.
- [What is winter riding like on Okinawa's outer islands?](https://rideokinawa.com/guides/winter-riding-climate): From December to March JMA's 1991–2020 normals give Miyako, Ishigaki, Iriomote, Hateruma and Yonaguni daily highs of 20–24 °C and lows of 16–19 °C, a north-northeasterly averaging 4–6 m/s (7–8 m/s on Yonaguni), 10–16 rainy days a month and seas near 23 °C.

## Site
- [Trip planner](https://rideokinawa.com/plan): Builds a day-by-day Okinawa trip from dates, interests, islands and comfort level, with island hops, stays and ride days.
- [Map](https://rideokinawa.com/map): Every island, beach, stay, sight and route on one 3D map.
- [Riding climate](https://rideokinawa.com/cycling/climate): Japan Meteorological Agency monthly normals for each island station, read for riders.
- [About and method](https://rideokinawa.com/about): Who writes Ride Okinawa and how facts and route statistics are produced.
- [Full content](https://rideokinawa.com/llms-full.txt): Every page's text and data in one plain-text file.