Yanbaru Experience Hotel Nunganiku

Nunganiku calls itself an adventure-tourism base for the Yanbaru World Heritage forest, and it sits at Kawata in Higashi village beside Fukuji River seaside park. Jalan reviewers rate the 20 rooms 4.5 out of 5. Canoe trips can be booked, and the lawn in front of the desk is set up for outdoor evenings, with a fire pit you can use with your own wood or with a set rented through the hotel's website. On clear nights the whole site sees the stars.

The roadside station Sunrise Higashi is seven minutes' walk for food and supplies. For riders the hotel falls on the Yanbaru east coast between Nago and Aha, and it makes a cheap and practical night on a two-day loop to Cape Hedo. Ask the hotel about a place for the bike.