Our stay in Yakushima concluded with a 7 am departure by hydrofoil from Anbo Port. That’s possible only because our guesthouse was literally 5 minutes away – there weren’t any bus that early. The owner was also kind enough to have breakfast available for us by 6:30 am. It tasted good but had to finish that in a hurry.
Much of the day was spent in transit – we would be going further south to Naha in Okinawa today. Once back in Kagoshima, we headed to the airport which was about 1 hour away by bus. And then after a 1.5 hour flight we made it out of the Naha Airport at about 3 pm.
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- Early breakfast at the guesthouse. Flying fish is Yakushima’s speciality but unfortunately we had some other fried fish instead.
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- Sun coming up
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- En route from Kagoshima (鹿児島) to Okinawa (沖縄). Can clearly see Sakurajima Volcano (桜島火山) belching out fumes.
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- Approaching diving paradise Okinawa. Beautiful sea!
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- Taking Naha city’s monorail (ゆいレール). It’s quick and convenient to get from the airport to most places of interest in the city with it.
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- A very late lunch so buffet was just right to stuff ourselves. This place at the town centre Palette Kumoji building, is quite health oriented with lots of vegs; and we were glad to still see a lot of selections at 4pm.
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- Blue Seal ice cream. “born in America and raised in Okinawa”. The one flavour for me is Okinawan salt cookies (塩ちんすこう).
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- The main street Kokusaidori (国際通り), lined with sovernir shops. Lots of students on school trip. School trip on a resort island like this!
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- “Star sand”
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- Discount store Don Quijote. Crowded with tourists. You can find this all over Japan, not particular need to shop here in Okinawa.
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- We bought some “sea grapes”