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Higashi Village’s Azalea Flower Festival [Festival]
Higashi Village has few claims-to-fame here on the island. It has the smallest populated municipal region in mainland Okinawa, with a popula...Read More
Cherry Blossom Festivals on Okinawa kick… [Festival]
Northern Okinawa has long taken pride of having the earliest cherry blossoms in Japan. Although cherry trees in Okinawa are not the same var...Read More
OkiEvents this Week!! [ENTERTAINMENT Festival]
・12/9~12/10 Chatan Pottery Market at Deport Island in Chatan 10:00~17:00 Free to enter https://shorturl.at/ktvG8 PIN: https://maps.ap...Read More
2023.07.20
OkiEvent this week!! [ENTERTAINMENT Festival]
・7/22~23 Motobu Ocean Festival @ Tancha Park (Haarii festival @ Toguchi port) Sat: 14:00~ Sun: 15:00~ (Haarii Sun. 11:00~) Free to enter https://www.town.motobu.okinawa.jp/newslist...
2023.07.11
Ocean Expo Park Fireworks Festival is pyrotechnics mega extravaganza [Festival]
Of dozens of fireworks Okinawa has every summer, the biggest of all takes place on Emerald Beach in the Ocean Expo Park in Motobu, where more than 10,000 fireworks light the skies ...
2023.06.14
Itoman Haaray; a traditional and fun event in southernmost of Okinawa [CULTURE Festival]
The Itoman Haaray takes place on the May 4th of the Lunar Calendar. This day is actually June 21st 2023 of the Gregorian Calendar. Most people in Itoman adhere to the Lunar Calenda...
2023.06.13
The Eisa Night Schedule 2023 [CULTURE Festival]
Although this year’s rainy season seems to continue into eternity, another season is about to start. Okinawa City Tourism Association is hosting a series of Eisa Nights every weeke...
2023.05.19
OkiEvents this Week!! [ENTERTAINMENT Festival]
・5/20~21 Nanmin Festival @ Naminoue Shrine and Kumoji in Naha Sat. 13:00~18:00, Sun. 10:00~18:00 Free to enter http://naminouegu.jp/ PIN: https://goo.gl/maps/zvw5ZH1yZpDYCrrc8?coh=...
2023.05.12
OkiEvents this Week! [ENTERTAINMENT Festival]
・5/14 Chimugukuru Charity Eisa Festival @ Minamitobaru in Okinawa city (The event field next to Sakumoto DIY Shop) 16:00~ Free to enter PIN: https://goo.gl/maps/iPYm7hLXBBz4iXY98?c...
2023.05.02
OkiEvents in Golden Week!! [CURRENT ISSUE ENTERTAINMENT Festival]
・5/3~5/7 Okinawa Zoo Kids Festival @ Okinawa Zoo in Okinawa city 9:00~18:00 Free to enter for Elementary School and younger https://www.okzm.jp/event/kodomo/entry-3017.html PIN: ht...
2023.05.01
Chasing the Dragon – The Naha Haarii [Festival]
The Naha Haarii Festival will happen during Golden Week from May 3-5 from 10:00 ~ 20:00 (~21:00 5th) every day at the Naha New Port. Tens of thousands of people from all over the w...
2023.04.28
Golden Week, Japan’s Mega Holiday [CULTURE Family Festival]
Spring is here. And in Japan that means warmer weather, cherry blossoms, and rainy season. But, before the rainy season takes hold and shrouds Japan in a blanket of gray clouds and...
2023.04.20
OkiEvents this Week! [CURRENT ISSUE ENTERTAINMENT Festival]
・4/28~6/4 Jimmy Onishi Art Exhibition POP OUT @ Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum in Naha city 9:00 – 18:00 (6/3 & 6/4 until 20:00) Closed on Monday ¥1000 for adu...
2023.04.14
Ie Island Easter Lily Festival [Festival]
April 22nd marks the start of the 26th Annual Yuri Matsuri, the Ie lsland Lily Festival, showcasing more than one million teppoyuri’s, or Easter Lilies, which have become a vibrant...
2023.04.13
OkiEvents this Week! [ENTERTAINMENT Festival]
OkiEvents this week!! ・4/15~16 White Beach Festival @ White Beach in Uruma city 11:00 – 18:00 Free to enter https://www.facebook.com/NavyMWROkinawa PIN: https://goo.gl/maps/n...
2023.03.30
Tsuboya Shisa Day Fest educates and enlightens [Festival]
Tsuboya Shisa Day is up next Monday, and it teaches everything about Okinawa’s protector. Shisa is the traditional protector of Okinawan homes and buildings, and April 3rd is calle...
2023.03.22
OkiEvents this Week!! [ENTERTAINMENT Festival]
・3/25~26 All Okinawa Yachimun Festival @ Hotel Moon Beach in Onna village 10:00~19:00 Free to enter https://www.moonbeach.co.jp/information/95/ PIN: https://goo.gl/maps/FffzFyTe6NP...
2023.02.23
OkiEvents this Week!! [ENTERTAINMENT Festival Sports]
・2/25 – 2/26 Yomitan Yachimun Market @ Farmers Market Yunta Ichiba in Yomitan village 10:00~17:00 Free to enter https://www.yomitan-syakyo.com/kyouhan/yachimunichi.php PIN: h...
2023.02.16
OkiEvents this Week!! [ENTERTAINMENT Festival]
・2/18, 19, 25, 26 and 3/4, 5 Shuri Castle Reconstruction Festival at Shuri Castle Park (Projection Mapping will happen 3/4 & 3/5 only and need to apply lottery application for ...
2023.02.03
OkiEvents this Week! [ENTERTAINMENT Family Festival]
・2/4 – 2/5 Itoman Fair @ Itoman Road Station 10:00 ~ 18:00 Free to enter https://www.city.itoman.lg.jp/docs/2021121700028/ PIN: https://goo.gl/maps/1EBcXzXwj4u4jBBF9 ・2/5 Bul...
2023.01.25
OkiEvents this Week! [ENTERTAINMENT Festival]
・1/28 – 29 Nago Cherry Blossom Festival @ Nangusuku Park and Nago Crossing 11:00 – 21:00 Free to enter https://nagomun.or.jp/event/1606/ PIN: https://goo.gl/maps...
2023.01.12
OkiEvents this Week!! [ENTERTAINMENT Festival]
1/14 – 1/15 Itoman Furusato Festival @ Kukuru Itoman Outside Stage (1/14) 15:00 – 20:00 (1/15) 16:00 – 20:00 Free to enter https://bit.ly/3iAzuQ7 PIN: https://goo...
2022.12.22
OkiEvents this Week!! [ENTERTAINMENT Festival]
・12/24 Ginoza X’mas Night @ Ginoza Road Station 16:30~ Free to enter https://mitinoeki-ginoza.com/news/21946/ PIN: https://goo.gl/maps/KjQzwb2ttmVWG4VX8 ・12/24 Nishihara Town...
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