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Ryukyu Glass Village
Ryukyu Glass Village in Itoman. Visitors can watch the process of blowing recycled glass and can also try it.
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Okuhara Glass Factory
Okuhara Glass Factory in Naha. A hand-blown glass workshop that has continued since after the war.
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Bingata Cooperative Association
The production-area association for bingata. It carries on the techniques of stencils and pigments.
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Stencil Carving for Ryukyu Bingata
Stencil carving for bingata. Fine patterns are cut with a small knife using a thrusting cut.
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Kumejima Tsumugi no Sato Yuimaru-kan
Yuimaru-kan on Kumejima. It exhibits the making of tsumugi and accepts visitors for hands-on experience.
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Jofu Exhibit of the Miyakojima City Museum
The Miyakojima City Museum. It houses the tools of Miyako jofu and the history of the textile.
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Ishigaki City Traditional Crafts Center
The traditional crafts center of Ishigaki City. Visitors can try Yaeyama jofu and minsa.
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Yonaguni Town Traditional Crafts Center
The traditional crafts center of Yonaguni Town. It exhibits the textiles of the island.
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Haebaru Town Haebaru Culture Center
The culture center of Haebaru. It deals with hanaori and with Haebaru's memories of the war.
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Okinawa Prefectural Archaeological Center
The prefecture's buried cultural properties center. It preserves and studies objects excavated from gusuku and shell mounds.
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Urasoe Art Museum
The Urasoe Art Museum. It is the only art museum in Japan that specializes in collecting Ryukyu lacquerware.
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Ryukyu Awamori
Rice is steamed, the mash is prepared with Thai rice and black koji, and it is distilled in a pot still. Black koji produces citric acid and keeps the mash from spoiling even in the heat.
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Zuisen Distillery
Zuisen Distillery in Shuri. It descends from the distilling district licensed by the royal government, known as Shuri Sanka.
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Ishikawa Distillery
Ishikawa Distillery in Naha. It prepares its mash with black koji.
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Chuko Distillery
Chuko Distillery in Tomigusuku. It fires its own nanban jars and ages awamori in those jars.
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Shinzato Distillery
Shinzato Distillery in Okinawa City. Said to have been founded in 1846, it is regarded as the oldest distillery in the prefecture.
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Ikehara Distillery
Ikehara Distillery on Ishigaki Island. It makes awamori in a small distillery.
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