Travel

Visit Japan opens on Ishigaki Island

A sightseeing company on Ishigaki Island, “Ishigaki Kankou”, has been designated the “Visit Japan Information Center” by the Japanese Government. The “Visit Japan Information Center” was the brainchild of the government, to take care of foreign visitors at an office in Ishigaki Airport. Read More!

Ryukyu Skywalk aerial tours offer different perspective

Okinawa’s a sub-tropical paradise that’s beautiful from any angle, but now an Okinawa-based aviation company is showing that beauty from a new perspective: from above. ILAS is taking its customers into the air on Ryukyu Skywalk tours on one of their two helicopters, a Eurocopter AS350B2 and the new Eurocopter AS355F2. Read More!

Shopping

Autobacs offers bargains as it clears the shelves

Midway through the Japanese fiscal year, Autobacs Chatan is taking advantage of the advantage of the time to offer customers at its Chatan branch special clearance bargains as it clears the shelves to make way for new merchandise. Autobacs is tallying up bargains galore for its two-day clearance sale taking place Sep. Read More!

Localbeat

Orion Beer's weekend in the spotlight

Orion Beer is Okinawa’s home-grown beverage, and this weekend’s Orion Beer Festival in Okinawa City’s Koza Athletic Park is a chance for the company to tout its product while offering top notch entertainment to the community. A dozen name bands will perform during the two-day festival, which kicks off both Saturday and Sunday at 4 p. Read More!

Eisa, friendship, beer festivals this weekend

On base and in Okinawa City, festival season continues this weekend. Down Highway 58, at Camp Kinser, it’s the annual Friendship Festival kicking off a two-day run on Saturday. Read More!

Gourmet

Taco rice omelet had humble start in Onna

There are plenty of shops and restaurants across Okinawa that loudly tout their omutaco, or taco rice omelet, but only one –Kijimunaa originally from Onna Village—can lay claim to being the original. Kijimunaa opened its doors in 2003, and has become the focal point of the simple dish created by placing egg atop a simple taco rice dish. Read More!

Culture

Ryuta Kinjo’s putting the finishing touches on his 24 water-based paintings as he prepares for a three-day exhibition, 200 Years of Light and Shadow Living Together in Nature, at the Urasoe Art Museum. Artist Kinjo’s watercolor paintings each tell a story, and each of the 24 paintings are sequential, showing first sunset scene before working through the darkness and to sunrise, the final painting. Read More!

Health

Healing Hand Supliss puts body in balance

Yoshimi Imai understands how being in touch with nature is essential for relaxation and restoring the body to a healthy balance, and with her new salon she’s putting those principles into practice. Healing Hand Supliss is designed to combat stress and fatigue that throws the body off balance, and Imai has created a relaxing, comfortable atmosphere filled with greenery and aromatic scents to put the customer at ease. Read More!

Evitas unique Thai massage celebrates anniversary

Evita Okinawa Thai Massage is preparing to celebrate its 9th anniversary, and is proud of having served thousands of customers with the best Thai soft tissue and deep tissue massages. Ayako Bastidas first learned the art of Thai massage in Chiang Rai, Thailand, and then added skills in aroma massage in London, and finally reflexology in Tokyo, first as a hobby, and then taking on the massage challenge as a side-line business. Read More!

Chiropractic treatments can eliminate pain

Hamid Ebrahami is a chiropractor--a physician specializing in the human body’s muscular, nervous and skeletal systems, with emphasis on the spine—who’s taken Okinawan health care up a notch as he’s helped hundreds of patients find pain-free lives. An Okinawa resident since 2003, he’s operated Hamid Care Center in Chatan, using x-rays as the starting point to identify individuals’ pains often caused by interference in body systems caused by muscles and vertebrae out of alignment. Read More!