Nature & Environment
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Explore the NEO Park [Nature & Environment Park]
What can you say? Kids love animals, and visiting a zoo is a great way to spend time with the family. The Okinawa Zoo (Kodomo-no-Kuni) is a ...Read More
Reef Currents, Beware! [Nature & Environment]
During summertime, marine activities ramp up around the island making it one of the most enjoyable activities here on Okinawa. However, that...Read More
Yohena’s Ajisai-en, The Hydrangea Garden… [Nature & Environment]
As spring moves toward summer, the floral landscape of northern Okinawa is taking on new colors as hydrangea flowers, or ajisai’s in Japanes...Read More
2013.01.27
Himawari Festival brings forth golden sunflowers [Nature & Environment]
At first mention of a flower with a smiling face, everyone thinks of a sunflower, and the Himawari Festival pays homage to Japan’s “earliest sunflower”. About 40,000 sunflowers beg...
2013.01.27
Humpback whales take limelight [Nature & Environment]
By Bill Charles They are big and slow, but they love to play and have fun. Humpback whales are making their annual migration to Okinawa waters, and now it’s easy for people to watc...
2013.01.20
Cosmos in full bloom at Asato in Nakagusuku [Nature & Environment]
Central Okinawa is alive with the vibrant colors of flowers in bloom, with more than 100,000 cosmos now in full bloom in Nakagusuku’s Asato district. The flowers are in bloom throu...
2013.01.20
Nago Fishing Port salutes sakura with its own festival [Nature & Environment]
The colorful pink sakura, the cherry blossom, is in full bloom across northern Oknawa, and Nago Fishing Port is taking the occasion to have its own 13th Village of Flowers, Hana no...
2012.12.01
Wonder Museum wants visitors to ‘meet snake’ [Nature & Environment]
The Wonder Museum at Okinawa Kodomo no Kuni is venturing down a somewhat different path from now through January 27th, wanting to introduce visitors to snakes from both a cultural...
2012.09.21
Sanba blasts Okinawa, Kyushu en route to Korea [Nature & Environment]
A man fell off his roof in Kagoshima Sunday and was killed, and a snorkeler drowned in Ishigaki some 200 meters off the coastline after being carried away by high waves as Typhoon ...
2012.08.17
Okinawa Kodomono-Kuni offers Saturzoo Nights [Nature & Environment]
It’s a different perspective on a zoo’s animal inhabitants, but that’s what the zoo of Okinawa Kodomono-kuni is offering through September 1st. SaturZoo Night is a time for the zoo...
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