Gardens of Ryukyu
Porous Ryukyuan limestone stacked among subtropical planting - neither the material nor the plants of a mainland garden.
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Porous Ryukyuan limestone stacked among subtropical planting - neither the material nor the plants of a mainland garden.
About 600 metres of sand beside Araha Park, with a large ship-shaped play structure.
A 1,960-metre bridge joining Kourijima with Yagajijima. Opened in 2005, it is the second-longest toll-free bridge in the prefecture.
The only shop in Japan where you can buy duty-free while travelling domestically.
White sand running from the east of the island round to the north, with coral reef all around it.
A sandbar of coral sand alone, about seven kilometres long, lying off the east of Kumejima.
About fifteen minutes by car from central Ishigaki. A natural beach where tropical fish gather, with the sunset seen from the pier.
Seven kilometres of white sand, also called Maipama on Miyakojima.
The main beach of Zamamijima, awarded two stars in the Michelin Green Guide.
A clifftop about 70 metres high on Miyagijima, within the grounds of a salt works.
About 700 metres of white sand on the west coast of Sesokojima, looking out to Iejima and Minnajima.
About fifteen minutes by car from Naha Airport — a city beach with changing rooms and lockers.
Within Iriomote-Ishigaki National Park. Shallow, and the water tends to be calm.
White sand ringed by coral reef, with dozens of coral species and over a hundred kinds of tropical fish.
The signature beach of Tokashikijima, with white sand and Kerama-blue water.
On the west coast of central Okinawa. At low tide you can walk the reef and look at the sea life.
A resort wholly ringed by coral reef, given the top grade in the Environment Ministry's hundred finest bathing beaches.
An underground lake formed by groundwater in a limestone cave on Minamidaitojima, beneath the sugarcane fields.
A national natural monument: over a thousand five- and six-sided rocks exposed at low tide.
Five minutes' walk from central Hirara in Miyakojima — a beach the townspeople use.
The main beach of Akajima. Its name is written "north beach" but read Nishibama.
Beside the Mihama American Village, one of the finest places in the prefecture for the sunset.