Hirano Shoten is a popular lunch spot in this neighborhood. Hirano set meal Plenty of variety and big portions too. With a spread like this, no wonder it is popular. Kakuni braised pork belly This one was ju…
When you think of Okinawa, you think of the Churaumi Aquarium. While putting up blog posts I had a feeling I had forgotten something, and sure enough, Churaumi was missing. A bit late, but here it is. It is r…
There was plenty I wanted to buy at the Ashibinaa outlet mall, but it is a small place, and after about two hours there is nothing left to see. Looking around for sights nearby, I heard there was a Peace Memor…
The Ashibinaa Outlet Mall in Okinawa is near the airport. It was right before heading home anyway, and going somewhere far from the airport did not make much sense, so I headed to the outlet. Roughly what it …
From the second day after we arrived in Okinawa, my travel companion came down with a cold and was out of action. That meant a big reshuffle of the itinerary. So here are some photos I took while just wanderin…
I took an unplanned trip to Okinawa. The first place I headed to after arriving on day one was Jack’s Steak House. When you are in Okinawa, you have to have at least a steak. The way there It is not t…
A place I’d never seen before opened up in Shinjuku, so I went to check it out. It didn’t look like a great restaurant, but I was curious anyway. The fact that it served Okinawan food also caught m…
So this is my last post about Okinawa. This is the goya champuru set meal from a 24-hour diner in town. It’s on a big main road, kind of like the drivers’ diners you find in Korea, and it’s r…
About halfway up Okinawa’s main island there’s a fishing port called Awase that tourists hardly ever stop at. It has a small seafood market called the Payao Direct Store. I went on a tip from someo…
Okinawa soba is probably the most famous thing to eat in Okinawa. It’s cheap and tasty, so I stopped by a few places on this trip. Miyarabi, a Miyako soba shop we stopped at on the first day. It’s…
This is the place that got recommended to me as a good izakaya for an evening out in Okinawa. It’s near the hotel I stayed at, and if you show your hotel key card they knock half off the food right there…
Maybe it’s the influence of the US military, but Okinawa has steak houses all over town. The famous ones are probably Jack’s, Sam’s, and 88. I went to Jack’s Steak House, the one with t…