🇯🇵🏝️OKINAWA TRAVEL GUIDE 2023 | 4 days in Okinawa | exploring, eating, shopping, day trips + prices

Here’s my guide to to visiting Okinawa in 2023

I spent 8 days in Okinawa’s main island and put together all the favorite things I did, saw, and ate into a 4 day guide.

Timestamps

00:23 Getting There ✈️
00:42 Getting Around 🚙
3:07 Let’s Talk Money 💴
3:35 Staying Connected 📱
4:00 Day 1 (Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, Okinawa Pineapple Park, Todoroki Waterfall)
10:39 Day 2 (Tokashiki Island + how to use the ferry ⛴️)
14:20 Day 3 (Exploring Naha, Shujiro Castle, Fukushuen Garden, Makishi Public Market, Kokusaidori Street)
19:18 How to use AirPort Express Shuttle
20:08 Day 4 (Sesoko Island)
20:17 How to use the bus 🚌

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[minimcewen]

Thank you...I'm half Okinawan and one of my greatest pleasures in life was returning 45 years later with my wife, mother and brothers. Thank you for the great video.

[forwhat]

I lived there as a kid and planning to go back next year! It’s a place so close to my heart.

[andyhwell]

Iv lived all over the world. And Okinawa was hands down the best living. I cant wait to go back to visit.

[びび-ee]

I'm from Okinawa and I feel this is a good guide! Thank you for making such a nice content❤

[perfectfutures]

Thanks for this video. Really comprehensive, and I like the honesty about experience vs. expectation/hype. I'm actually watching to prepare for asking my students about Okinawa when they get back from going there. A lot of the peak sights in Japan seem to be seasonal. That waterfall would be fuller when the lake it feeds from is fuller and of course, the sunset depends on the weather that day. Even more so when it comes to cherry blossoms and autumn leaves! Yet especially the latter, the peak is actually really short and hard to catch.

I think with a lot of tourism we are fed images of ideal scenes, which in reality are a special treat for that place and not to be expected too much for a usual visit.

I liked the laid back atmosphere in Okainawa and the snorkelling. The sightseeing was a little dull for me, maybe because the buildings were kept as they survived, rather than being restored to their former glory. My visual highlight was going snorkelling, as that undersea world is always in vivid technicolour and a great memory for me.

[JCC_]

This is where our daughter wants to go on her double digits birthday in 3 years. Thank you for showing us all the things we can do as a family on the island 💜

[A_swifty_who_didnt_go_erastour]

Thank you for this! I moved half a year ago and lived there longer than I can remember. This brings back memories❤❤

[Aotearoas]

Thanks for the video, added some more places to my "to visit list".

[mingoliao]

Thanks for the great tips. I am in Okinawa now. I used the link to reserve the ferry to Tokashiki. It was great, I snorkeled off the Aharen beach with family. It was a beautiful day.

[jimbolic]

Thank you for making this informative video!

[RealLifeRuby]

Super informative Okinawa video! Can't wait to save to go one day ☺🇯🇵

[TKAdamAdventures]

Thank you for posting!! We really want to visit there some day!

[giulia-silvi-herrera]

Amazing video! Planning our trip to Japan for this Spring. We were thinking of going in May. Do you recommend Okinawa in May? Or would it be better at the end of April to avoid as many rain showers?

[nicolelazotravel]

Great video! The snorkeling looked amazing!

[jayerickson-rodq]

Awesome video thank you. I was in Naha the last two weeks of May.

[firefistq]

Amazing video, I'm going next month and can't wait to explore Okinawa. Can I ask how did you took a video underwater?

[theroadrunnerjarhead]

I was in Okinawa 61 years ago while in the Marine Corps. I liked it.

[Chrischi]

Hi Eileen, we just stumbled upon your video and felt a little bit reliefed regarding our planning to visit Okinawa by end of may. We plan to go from 24th of may until 3rd of june 2024 but we are a little bit worried about the weather conditions. We read that this is during the rain taifun season, but now we saw your video and saw the good and sunny weather. What is your experience during end of may? Can you recommend it? Thanks in advance!

[sonirani]

Is December a good time to visit Okinawa?

[helicalvortex]

How are the shower rooms at the beaches if any? Like how do you rinse off after going snorkeling?