Nago Castle Park is a hot spot for cherry blossom-viewing in the winter as thousands of visitors come to enjoy the pink blush flowers.
Near Camp Foster is a set of challenging stairs dubbed the “Stairway to Heaven.”
Itokazu Castle is believed to have been built on Okinawa’s main island in the early 14th century with the purpose of defending Tamagusku Castle, which is located nearby.
Welcome to the first of a series of articles spotlighting select Japanese recipes from the new anime series, Isekai Izakaya Nobu!
It is a meal of boiling things like chopped radish and eggs, or tasty chikuwa fish cakes in a soy sauce or kombu soup stock for a long time to gain flavor.
Bingata is a traditional cloth-dyeing method that spans generations and has a 500-year history on Okinawa.
On a day in mid-October, I tried cooking paella, a Spanish dish for the first time.
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