– drive to the north end of the island to watch the sunrise. Spend an hour or so looking around and visiting the giant chicken statue (its actually an Okinawa Rail, and a viewpoint)
– Drive to the south end of the island to watch the sunset. Visit the lighthouse and checkout the sugarcane fields.
– Go to the aquarium and/ or the zoo (if you’re into those kinds of things)
– Go to the southeast Botanical Gardens
– Get some of the awesome food
– Go to the People’s prefectural Forest or the Yanbaru Forest
– see a gusuku/castle
– see a shinto shrine (or buddhist temple)
– snorkle above a reef from shore (not in a cave)
– eat okinawa soba (or not, but eat at the little, popular, local eateries)
– visit a FamilyMart / HotSpar (convenience store)
– visit a bookstore
– visit a WWII cave
– stay in a ryokan ( great local food, Japanese bath / soaking tubs great bathrobes, tatami rooms)
– visit an onsen
– visit a waterfall
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– drive to the north end of the island to watch the sunrise. Spend an hour or so looking around and visiting the giant chicken statue (its actually an Okinawa Rail, and a viewpoint)
– Drive to the south end of the island to watch the sunset. Visit the lighthouse and checkout the sugarcane fields.
– Go to the aquarium and/ or the zoo (if you’re into those kinds of things)
– Go to the southeast Botanical Gardens
– Get some of the awesome food
– Go to the People’s prefectural Forest or the Yanbaru Forest
– see a gusuku/castle
– see a shinto shrine (or buddhist temple)
– snorkle above a reef from shore (not in a cave)
– eat okinawa soba (or not, but eat at the little, popular, local eateries)
– visit a FamilyMart / HotSpar (convenience store)
– visit a bookstore
– visit a WWII cave
– stay in a ryokan ( great local food, Japanese bath / soaking tubs great bathrobes, tatami rooms)
– visit an onsen
– visit a waterfall