The Okinawa prefecture (沖 縄) is a Japanese region consisting of four island groups.
Understands
Okinawa's name means "rope in the sea" and is perhaps an appropriate name for this extensive chain of islands stretching from the southern tip of Japan and down against Taiwan, in all there are 41 inhabited and uninhabited islands.
History
Ground
Cities
- Naha - the capital of Okinawa prefecture
- Chatan - many hotels and beaches
- Okinawa - the second largest city
- Nago - the largest city in the north of the island
- Itoman - place of the last battle of World War II and the monument in memory of the fallen
- Motobu - home of the huge Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium
- Nanjo
- Kitanakagusuku
Islands
Okinawa Islands
- Okinawa Island (Okinawa-hontō) - The largest island
- Kerama Islands
- Akajima
- Tokashiki
- Zamami
Daito Islands
Mikayo Islands
Natural monuments and great beaches.
Yaeyama Islands
- Hateruma
To get
By car
By plane
Naha airport is the main airport of the prefecture, from the Narita airport in Tokyo by Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways, It also receives flights from nearby countries such as South Korea, China Y Taiwan.
Typically, most commercial flights to Okinawa are via interconnection at Los Angeles International Airport, New York John F. Kennedy International Airport, or Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport, all in the United States and some airports in Canada. . For flights from Chile or Argentina, the main route is via São Paulo and then to an American airport. Another means is by combining with Europe, departing flights from London, Frankfurt and Paris.
By boat
To travel by sea, the city of Naha, capital of Okinawa Prefecture, has three large ports that have commercial traffic between Okinawa and Japan. Also, Okinawa is on the route of many cruise ships departing from Hong Kong Y Tokyo.
How to get around
In Okinawa Prefecture there are various means of communication between the islands, with maritime and air transport being paramount.
By car
The prefecture has a small network of roads and highways, located mainly on the larger islands. The most important roads are National Route 58, a highway that runs in an interrupted way from Kagoshima prefecture and reaches the city of Naha in Okinawa. Another important road is the Okinawa Expressway which has a route of 57.3 km on the island of Okinawa.
By monorail
Since 2003 there is the Okinawa Monorail, a monorail line that crosses Naha and has a length of 12.8 km.
By bus
Watch
Do
Watersports.
To buy
In Okinawa it is known for glass crafts and efforts to produce glass souvenirs for tourists.
To eat
Unlike the simplicity of classic Japanese food, which tries to highlight individual ingredients, Okinawa is a cuisine champur (mixed), where many ingredients can be used in a single dish to create complex and balanced flavors.Thanks to their notable Taiwanese influence, Okinawans also proudly proclaim that they use all parts of the pork except that the squeak and the pork appear in almost all the dishes, including pieces like ears, trotters and blood that are generally despised by the Japanese.
Other Okinawan ingredients include vegetables rarely seen on the Japanese mainland such as bitter melon.
A small pumpkin of gōyā (in front) and a spoonful of gōyā champurū (behind)
Noodles Sōki soba
Fish slices gurukun
Rice taco
Shima-dōfu (island tofu) with sesame dressing
Mimigā (pig's ear ... mimi = ear & gā = pig) and Chiragā (pig face)
Sukugarasu in tofu
Umibudō (sea grapes)
Donuts Sātāandagī
Some dishes worth trying:
- Gōyā champurū (ゴ ー ヤ ー チ ャ ン プ ル ー) is the canonical Okinawan dish, made of goya mixed with pork and tofu. There are many other champurūs, made with tofu, noodles, fu (gluten), etc.
- Gurukun (グ ル ク ン)
- Okinawa soba (沖 縄 そ ば)
- Hirayāchī (ヒ ラ ヤ ー チ ー),
- Raftī (ラ フ テ ィ ー)
- Shima-dofu (島 豆腐)
- Sātāandagī (サ ー タ ー ア ン ダ ギ ー)
The chinmi Okinawan or "strange foods", eaten as snacks with the drink, include:
- Chiragā (チ ラ ガ ー),
- Mimigā (ミ ミ ガ ー),
- Umibudō (海 ぶ ど う)
- Sukugarasu (ス ク ガ ラ ス)
To drink
The local drink is known as awamori (泡 盛).
Sleep
- Miyakojima paradise, [1] English, French and Japanese are spoken on site.