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Okinawa Slideshow
Top Hotels in Okinawa
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Manza Hotel And Resort Okinawa
201 reviews -
Grand Mer Okinawa
110 reviews
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Zampamisaki Royal Okinawa
171 reviews
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Washington Okinawa
78 reviews
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Chisun Resort Okinawa Churaumi
39 reviews
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Kumejima Island Eef Beach Okinawa
47 reviews
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Terrace Garden Mihama Resort Okinawa
15 reviews
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Akasaka Hotel Okinawa
3 reviews -
On the Beach Lue Okinawa
32 reviews
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Sunrise Kanko Hotel Okinawa
1 review -
Hotel New Century Okinawa
10 reviews
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Yoshida Hotel Okinawa
1 review
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Crown Hotel Okinawa
6 reviews
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Western Hotel Okinawa
1 review
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Deigo Hotel Okinawa
14 reviews
Okinawa
Travel Blogs from Okinawa, Japan
Ten Years Later...
This is a top pick! Ten years later, we return to the place where our life as we know it began. Fukuoka. The city where we became engaged, and where our first baby was born. It was like time travel back to our salad ...
Beppu- Onsen city
This is a top pick! ... in the food court where we found a cheap sushi place that was delicious and we discovered the wonderfulness of fried chicken meat in Japan. I'm not sure what flavouring they put on it but it was delicious! Our second day in Beppu we decided to try an ...
Heading South - To Nagasaki!
This is a top pick! Today I headed south of Kobe for the first time since coming to Japan. Very south in fact - off Honshu and into Kyushu to visit the first of the two A-Bomb cities on my itinerary: Nagasaki. At 6 hours, the trip down was a bit longer than I ...
Which bath shall I take among plenty of SPA
This is a top pick! A visit from Anita meant that a trip somewhere in Japan was in order - so I hit on Beppu, famed for its hot springs and hot sand bath. Unfortunately (or more likely fortunately) the sand baths were shut by the time we worked up courage to go there, so we ...
Japan's Europe
This is a top pick! ... speak English. He was rather pleased that I could and so began quite a conversation! Where had I been? What did I think of Japan? Was I alone? Where was I going? What did I think of Japanese girls? In other countries, some of the questions would maybe ...
One city, two names
This is a top pick! Hakata - also known as the harder to pronounce Fukuoka, it is home to the rather cool Canal City. Ok so Canal City is just a shopping centre, but it has a canal! Obviously we went to Canal city but really, Hakata is just a city with no real charms. ...
Fukuoka
This is a top pick! ... . From digital toilets, musical pedestrian crossings, automatic doors on the taxis, vending machines everywhere (not filled with crap). In Japan, there's always a surprise around the corner! We flew from Beijing to Fukuoka in western Japan. From here we ...
The World's Second Largest Aquarium is in Okinawa
This is a top pick! ... 60 centimetres. The whale sharks are my favorite creatures in the tank. They are so huge and cute! Okinawa has a climate that is totally different from mainland Japan. It has a good temperature climate throughout the year and it is always humid. Winter in ...
Bad Facial Hair
This is a top pick! ... managed to get off Honshu, Japan's largest and most inhabited island. Thus I got to spend a whole week in Okinawa, the country's southernmost prefecture, and perhaps the one most challenging to stereotypes of Japan. No giant skyscrapers, neon lights and ...
Ohayo Gozaimasu!
This is a top pick! ... Headquarters (where 4,000 Japanese committed suicide when all was lost during WWII), a glass blowing place, and then headed home. Okinawa is a beautiful, relaxing, peaceful, wonderful place to visit, and I would definitely go back. In fact, we need to go ...
North.
This is a top pick! Just across the water from the main island of Honshu, you can see Honshu and its just a bridge away. Albeit a long bridge. KitaKyushu is home to the theme park "Space world" which was heavily advertised and almost too hard to resist, but resist we ...
Japan photo special 3
This is a top pick! Some more random photos from mad Japan... Toilet culture Fragile Earth - the aftermath of a volcanic erruption Tea-time Matsumoto Castle Another day on Lake Toya Crossing the Iya ...
Kun, Khun, and Ghin
This is a top pick! Okay I'm going to cut to the chase here... as I've been sitting in this Internet cafe for a long time today. We took the public bus from Kratie to Phnom Penh (the capital city of Cambodia). I won't describe P.P. here, as I will be spending quality ...
Kagoshima with Sayaka and family
This is a top pick! ... the raw variety is also bit hard for me to swallow. Before I finish off, I must mention a very important fact about Japan: the public toilets. They are NASA-engineered, AI driven super-machines catering to your every nether-region ...
Mission(s) Accomplished
This is a top pick! ... transport nonetheless. Having arrived in Kyoto I got reacquainted with the super efficient ITCJ (International Tourist Centre of Japan) who booked us accommodation, allowing Meg to get acquainted, and me reacquainted, with a Japanese ryokan, always ...
"Danger, danger!"
This is a top pick! ... giving me slight cause for concern. Only in Japan! Thankfully the view at the top didn`t disappoint, overlooking Onami-no-ike (Japan`s largest crater lake) and in the distance, the other volcanoes that I would be visiting in the proceeding few ...
Buried alive...
This is a top pick! ... for a suna-yu (sand bath) but it was a bit too far to travel, and when I found out that Beppu was the other place in Japan where it was possible, there was no need anyway. So on Friday morning, I got the bus to the `Beppu Beach Sand Bath` where I was to ...
Arriving in Kyushu...
This is a top pick! ... got lost! I had printed out very detailed instructions on how to get to the hostel, but I made a cardinal sin when navigating in Japan - I left the train station via the wrong exit. In the end I succumbed and got a taxi, something I should have done in ...
Meeting Tatsu...
This is a top pick! My legs were as stiff as a board when I woke up on Saturday morning, and the last thing I needed was another hike uphill, particularly as it was absolutely scorching outside. However, the prospect of seeing Sakurajima, the active volcano across the water ...
Giggling...
This is a top pick! ... !). Back near the train station, the `26 Martyrs Memorial` recalled how twenty six Christians were crucified in 1597 after Japan had previously banned Christianity - two of the victims were aged just twelve and thirteen. There was a nice little park ...
Ostriches in Okinawa? Who would've thought!
This is a top pick! ... ends, but having the time of my life. Lily, Tony and I decided to fly down to the southern most prefecture in Japan, Okinawa, to spend an extra long weekend relaxing and exploring the various islands. Unfortunately when we arrived at the airport in ...
Winding down...
This is a top pick! ... a theme park in Japan, there was a good old fashioned ferris wheel in the confines, though I didn`t see any "biggest in Japan" claims. Admittedly English signage is rare in these parts, so I`d hazard a guess that a "biggest ferris wheel ...
The Truffle Chuffle, again and again and...
This is a top pick! ... suggestions for daily itineraries. Also, thanks to Kim who also gave helpful suggestions especially about Hiromshima and the rest of Japan. I value her insight as a fellow traveller, so I altered my plan to include Hiroshima. Fukuoka was first. My ferry ...
Getting some training
This is a top pick! Awoken rudely from the land of nod by my alarm at 6:30am in order to get the Shinkansen (bullet train) across Japan to the island of Kyushu in the west. After a quick shower I felt refreshed and headed out to get some breakfast at 7:30. Headed across to ...
Hells...
This is a top pick! ... Christians had suffered back in 1630, as 33 of them were subjected to `death by scolding` after Christianity was banned in Japan...slightly harsh really. I had a few hours to kill before I continued on towards Kumamoto, and I`d planned to get the bus ...
Snow in Kyushu...
This is a top pick! Without meaning to blow my own trumpet, the foresight that I showed before going to Mount Aso meant that my short stay turned out to be a memorable one...but it could have been a lot different! I was booked into the youth hostel for two nights, with ...
OOOOOOOOOOOOceaan
... de zon daar wel. Met wat hulp van Rika vonden we de juiste trein en waren we alweer op weg. Ons eerste gastgezin in Japan moesten we spijtig genoeg achterlaten. We hopen dat ze eens op bezoek komen in Belgi, dan kunnen we ook eens potluck feestje ...
I predict a riot
Hi guys, Another update! No massage last week...TIA after all and so I shall have to go some other time...What a week though..it started off with some farm work; shoveling bull shit into holes for cabbage..glamorous. The children celebrated the ...
I am here!
I don:t have much time to write (or even to find the stupid apostrophe button on this wacked japanese keyboard) but I thought that I should let everyone know that I@made it here safe and sound with pink luggage accounted for! I meet my host family in ...