Makishi, Naha City

This is the biggest shopping arcade running off Kokusai Street with its entrance right across from the Mitsukoshi department store. Heiwa Street is lined with a number of souvenir shops and Okinawan cuisine restaurants. There are also grocery stores, drugstores and more retail outlets catering to the locals.

Higawa, Naha City

This is a wholesale market that starts business around midnight. Products are sold very cheaply here, and you can buy at this market even if you’re not a wholesaler.

Tsuboya, Naha City

This street is a microcosm of local life where vegetable stores, steamed fish paste shops, tempura shops and other food vendors operate side by side. The street gets crowded in the early evening hours with people buying food for dinner.

Makishi, Naha City

At the intersection of Ichiba Chuodori and Ichiba Hondori Street, you will see kariyushi wear shops on the left-hand side; the Makishi Public Market, selling every kind of Okinawan food imaginable including dried goods such as bonito and smoked sea snake, is located on the right.