Distortion Seaside Bldg. 1F, 9-46 Mihama, Chatan Town
Tel: 098-989-5508
Hours: 11:00-21:00
Open daily
Specializing in Japanese sundries, including chopsticks and pouches, and also offering fashion items such as shoes and T-shirts with Japanese-inspired patterns, Cocowa is a perfect place to shop for souvenirs.
This is a monument located in Chatan Town’s Sunabe Baba Park. The 13-kilometer-long coastline between Chatan Town and Yomitan Village is where U.S. forces made their first landing on Okinawa in 1945, which marked the beginning of the Battle of Okinawa -- the only ground battle fought in Japan during World War II. This monument, along with one erected on the grounds of Tomarigusuku Park in Yomitan's Toguchi area, indicates the area of the U.S. forces' first landing. Images of a mother mourning the death of her child in a bomb shelter, powerful battle tanks and soldiers are inscribed on the monument.
405 Kyoda, Nago City
Tel: 0980-50-9686
Admission: Free
The northern part of Okinawa has a very high quality of water, enhancing the flavor of awamori from this Nago-based distillery. Visitors can enjoy samples of not only awamori, but also various other liquors such as rum made from sugarcane and shochu -- a distilled spirit made from Okinawan purple sweet potatoes.
570 Kadekaru
Ishikawa, Uruma City
Tel: 098-964-7628
Admission: Free
The showroom and factory of the Kamimura Distillery. Sampling awamori and aged sake is available, but reservations must be made. There are also various distillery tour plans for meetings, incentive tours, conventions and conferences.
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.
1-411 Toyosaki, Tomigusuku City
Tel: 098-995-8595
Hours: 10:00-22:00
Open daily
A large shopping mall located in Tomigusuku City, near Okinawa Outlet Mall Ashibinaa. Tomiton is home to a variety of stores, including nationally popular retail chains such as Sports Depo, Golf 5 and Shoe Plaza, a 100 yen shop and a number of eating and drinking establishments.
Makishi, Naha City
This street has a nostalgic atmosphere that makes you feel as if you’ve stepped back in time 50 years.
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.
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.
5-3-1 Hiyagon, Okinawa City (in Okinawa Comprehensive Athletic Park)
Attached to the Okinawa Comprehensive Athletic Park, in Awase, Okinawa City, this 15-hectare garden features 90,000 Easter lilies that bloom between the end of April and the first week of May. Filled with white blossoms giving off their distinctive fragrance, the garden attracts many people during its peak time. The garden can be found next to the campsite, in the southern part of the park.
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.
