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Orion Beer Hall
CONTRIBUTED BY: THE THIRSTY SHISA I finally made it over to the new Aeon Rycom Mall and quickly made a beeline for the Orion Beer Hall. This wasn’t necessarily easy to do though as the Beer Hall is...
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Cafe Buho
CONTRIBUTED BY SHANNON R. While driving aimlessly though the winding streets of Okinawa, we stumbled upon this awesome little café. There is a park directly across the street with several parking...
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HEF Okinawa Conference
Welcome, Higher Education Forum Conference attendees! We hope you get a chance to explore some of our beautiful Okinawa while you are here. We’ve put together a list of a few of our favorite places...
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Kitchen MaGee!
CONTRIBUTED BY BEVERLY CHESTER I am on a perpetual hunt for good tacos on the island. I think we can all agree there aren’t many places here that serve flavorful Mexican dishes. A new restaurant popped...
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Volare Cucina Italiana
CONTRIBUTED BY ALEX If you have despaired over finding authentic Italian food, this review will give you new hope. For over a year, my wife and I were on a quest to find that very thing (Italian food,...
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2015 Okinawa Hai Calendar – August
The 2015 calendar was available for purchase in November and December of 2014. This was August’s page. Okinawa City Eisa Festival Photo credit: Leandros Rubio Leandros Rubio Photography “Air heavy and...
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August 2015 Local Events Calendar
CONTRIBUTED BY KACEY A. Here you’ll find a variety of local events happening in the month of August. Events on the island are constantly being created and changed, so please make sure to use...
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2016 Oki Hai Calendar: Submissions Accepted SOON!
As we, your Okinawa Hai managers, flipped the pages of our 2015 “Our Okinawa” {Hai} calendar, we couldn’t help but think back on what the first half of this year has brought for us: for one, the tears...
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Yoshinoura Park
CONTRIBUTED BY HANNAH CURTIS My kids and I are trying to knock out as many parks as we can this summer; often we go to the larger interesting parks (like Ogido) but sometimes a smaller one close to...
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Corrente
CONTRIBUTED BY: HIRO AKO If you think finding authentic Italian food in Okinawa is a rather difficult task, if not impossible, I have an answer for you: Corrente. Corrente is an Italian restaurant...
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Khrua Thai
CONTRIBUTED BY ANNA WISHERD Khrua Thai is probably my favorite restaurant on the island. Living on Camp Courtney, and with the restaurant conveniently located across the street from the main gate, it’s...
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Okinawa Cerrado
CONTRIBUTED BY KACEY A. Coffee roasteries have been getting very popular here in Okinawa, especially to the general public. Okinawa Cerrado Coffee has been in business for over 25 years and opened a...
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Izenajima: Inzena Island
CONTRIBUTED BY HANNAH CURTIS Izena island is located approximately 14 miles from the northernmost point of the Motobu peninsula, and in order to reach it, you take a 55 minute ferry ride departing from...
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Kokusai Dori Food Street
CONTRIBUTED BY QUENTIN RICHARDSON Upon my return to my beloved second home, I notice a tremendous amount of changes inland. A recent and very welcomed change is the new Food Street just off Kokusai...
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2016 Calendar Submissions: Photographs
There are many things that mean Okinawa to each of us. It might be a certain food, a local celebration, a new Okinawan friend, a rock formation out in clear blue water, a favorite drinks machine, a...
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2016 Calendar Submissions: Haiku & Vignettes
We are always thrilled with our haiku and vignette submissions each year for our annual Okinawa Hai Calendar. Such a fun way to give a little glimpse into this island of ours and to illustrate the...
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Editor’s Note: Okinawa Hai is excited to introduce a new monthly column that we hope will provide our readers with a uniquely Japanese perspective on some of the issues that we all encounter while...
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Roy’s Okinawa
CONTRIBUTED BY MINDY MORRIS Every once in a while I get a certain craving for the type of high end restaurant you find back in the States. Don’t get me wrong, I love both the food and restaurant style...
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Ametsuchi Terrace: Earth Hammock Cafe & Cayhane
CONTRIBUTED BY ERIN GODDARD I want to live at Ametsuchi Terrace! It has everything bohemian I could every imagine needing or drooling over: rugs from Morocco, Thai dresses, organic soaps, delicious...
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Little Greek Kitchen
CONTRIBUTED BY ANDREW FINK I actually stumbled across this gem the day after it officially opened a couple months ago, summer of 2015. Just a lucky find when I was out adventuring on the southeast...
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