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沖縄県 · Art & museums

Koza and the American Era

沖縄市本島中部

A shopping district built under US administration; its English signage and American forms remain as a visible layer.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Sabani Boats

糸満市本島南部

Planks sewn together with cord and bamboo pegs; because it can be re-sewn when it splits, it went far out to sea.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Villages of Nakijin

今帰仁村本島北部

A screen wall stands just inside each gate to block sight and wind - a Chinese device that took its own form here.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Farmland of Miyakojima

宮古島市宮古

With no rivers, the island built walls underground to hold water - invisible engineering that made its farming possible.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Iriomote Island

竹富町八重山

Nine-tenths forest, its rivers lined with mangrove, and people confined to a thin strip along the shore.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Yonaguni Island

与那国町八重山

Stepped rock formations underwater whose artificial or natural origin is still argued - and the argument has become their character.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Trade and Craft of the Ryukyu Kingdom

那覇市本島南部

A palace bell declares the kingdom a bridge between all nations by ship - and its crafts arrived along those same routes.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Postwar Art of Okinawa

那覇市本島南部

Under occupation, painters formed their own village, living by selling pictures to American servicemen while making their own work.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Masonry of the Gusuku

中城村本島中部

Stones cut into polygons and interlocked without gaps - a Ryukyuan method built on a different idea from mainland walling.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Jiro Kinjo and Okinawan Mingei

読谷村本島中部

Known for fish and shrimp cut in line; found by the mingei leaders, he became Okinawa's first Living National Treasure.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Buddhist Art of Ryukyu

那覇市本島南部

The royal temple burned in 1945 and only its gate survives; most of Ryukyuan Buddhist art was lost with it.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Former Ogimi Village Office

大宜味村本島北部

The oldest reinforced concrete building left in Okinawa, and one that stood through the shelling of 1945.

沖縄県 · Art & museums

Gardens of Ryukyu

那覇市本島南部

Porous Ryukyuan limestone stacked among subtropical planting - neither the material nor the plants of a mainland garden.

沖縄県 · Regional selections

Araha Beach

本島中部

About 600 metres of sand beside Araha Park, with a large ship-shaped play structure.

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Kouri Ohashi Bridge

本島北部

A 1,960-metre bridge joining Kourijima with Yagajijima. Opened in 2005, it is the second-longest toll-free bridge in the prefecture.

沖縄県 · Regional selections

T Galleria Okinawa

本島南部

The only shop in Japan where you can buy duty-free while travelling domestically.

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Minna Beach

本島周辺離島

White sand running from the east of the island round to the north, with coral reef all around it.

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Hate-no-hama

久米島

A sandbar of coral sand alone, about seven kilometres long, lying off the east of Kumejima.

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Fusaki Beach

八重山諸島

About fifteen minutes by car from central Ishigaki. A natural beach where tropical fish gather, with the sunset seen from the pier.

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Yonaha Maehama Beach

宮古諸島

Seven kilometres of white sand, also called Maipama on Miyakojima.

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Kozamami Beach

慶良間諸島

The main beach of Zamamijima, awarded two stars in the Michelin Green Guide.

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Kafu Banta

本島中部

A clifftop about 70 metres high on Miyagijima, within the grounds of a salt works.

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Sesoko Beach

本島北部

About 700 metres of white sand on the west coast of Sesokojima, looking out to Iejima and Minnajima.

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Naminoue Umisora Park and Naminoue Beach

本島南部

About fifteen minutes by car from Naha Airport — a city beach with changing rooms and lockers.