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Okinawa
Okinawa's oldest Buddhist temple, founded in 1367 beside Naminoue Shrine and rebuilt after the Battle of Okinawa.
The vermilion palace of the Ryukyu Kingdom, a UNESCO World Heritage site being lovingly rebuilt after a 2019 fire.
Naha's mile-long main avenue of shops, izakaya and Okinawan street food, nicknamed the Miracle Mile.
One of the world's great aquariums, home to whale sharks and manta rays in a colossal ocean tank on the Motobu Peninsula.
Okinawa's highest-ranked Shinto shrine, dramatically set on a coral cliff above Naha's only city beach.
The serene former royal retreat of the Ryukyu kings, a UNESCO-listed garden of ponds, bridges and a wooden villa.
Naha's colourful covered food market, the island's kitchen, where you can pick tropical fish and have it cooked upstairs.
A dramatic coral cliff on Okinawa's west coast whose elephant-trunk rock arch frames the turquoise sea.
The holiest sacred grove of the Ryukyu religion, a UNESCO-listed forest sanctuary of rock formations facing a sacred island.
A subtropical theme park built around Gyokusendo, one of Japan's largest limestone caves, plus Ryukyuan crafts and shows.
A UNESCO-listed hilltop castle ruin on the Katsuren Peninsula with commanding sea views and a startling archaeological story.
A superbly preserved UNESCO gusuku famed for its elegant curved stone walls and views over both Okinawan coasts.
A compact, free UNESCO castle ruin in Yomitan with Okinawa's oldest stone arch gates and walkable ramparts.
A grand ruined castle on the Motobu Peninsula, famed for its long serpentine walls and Japan's earliest cherry blossoms.
A historic pottery district in central Naha where Okinawan yachimun ceramics have been made for over three centuries.
A serene Chinese-style garden in central Naha celebrating the Ryukyu Kingdom's centuries-old ties with Fuzhou, China.
A dramatic cliff-lined cape on Okinawa's west coast crowned by a white lighthouse and famous for its sunsets.
A small northern island reached by a spectacular sea-crossing bridge, ringed by turquoise water and quiet beaches.
Okinawa's flagship museum, pairing rich Ryukyuan history and natural science with a modern art gallery in a gusuku-inspired building.
A moving memorial museum in southern Okinawa telling the tragic story of the Himeyuri student nurses in the 1945 battle.
A rocky cape on Okinawa's west coast hiding a sea cave where sunlight turns the water an electric cobalt blue.
A pristine, man-made white-sand beach on the Motobu Peninsula, consistently rated among Okinawa's cleanest.
A long crescent of white sand on Sesoko Island, famed for clear snorkelling water and spectacular sunsets.
Ishigaki's iconic bay, where jade-green water, white sand and scattered islets form one of Japan's most photographed seascapes.
