Kouri Beach
A beach looking out to the Kouri bridge, with the Kouri products centre beside it.
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A beach looking out to the Kouri bridge, with the Kouri products centre beside it.
Gyokusendo, a limestone cave about five kilometres long formed over some 300,000 years, of which 890 metres are open. There is also a habu snake park.
Minamidaitojima is said to move about seven centimetres northwest each year. These fissures were opened by that movement.
The house of a samurai family held to descend from the lords of Gushikawa Castle on Kumejima, ringed by stone walls and old fukugi trees.
The clinic set actually used in filming the drama, open to visitors on Yonagunijima.
Climb the white dune and the sea opens before you. Close to central Hirara in Miyakojima.
A day trip by chartered boat to Tokashikijima, the largest of the Kerama islands.
A town resort with cinemas, a large supermarket and an import market.
An island about a kilometre across, with a legend that humankind began here. The Kouri bridge reached it in 2005.
A park on a cape jutting into the sea, with Kudakajima and Komakajima close at hand.
Minamidaitojima is all cliff and has no beach. The islanders cut this sea pool out of the bedrock.
A 200-metre cliff in the northeast of Kumejima, with Hatenohama and Agunijima from the lookout.
A resort beach on Ishigakijima, open to non-residents, with gear for hire.
A 3,540-metre bridge joining Miyakojima with Irabujima. Opened in 2015, it is the longest toll-free bridge in Japan.
The Kerama islands, where American forces landed in March 1945. Here on Tokashikijima more than 300 islanders lost their lives.
An island seven kilometres around, with the two settlements of Hama and Higa, where red-tiled houses and stone walls remain.
A bridge 660 metres long and 80 metres high, named after Nirai Kanai, the paradise beyond the sea.
The largest of the limestone caves on Minamidaitojima, of which some 200 are said to have existed. It runs 375 metres.
Live sea turtles can be seen, with displays on their danger of extinction and on the environment.
On a hill above Nagura Bay. Its relocated houses, over 110 years old, are registered cultural properties.
A bay at the centre of the island, where sea turtles come to feed.
Opened in 1968. One of the largest outdoor botanical gardens in Japan, with over 50,000 plants of some 1,300 tropical and subtropical species.
About fifteen minutes by car from Naha Airport, on Senagajima, which a causeway joins to the main island.