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[2010-09-02] 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! [2010-09-02] 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! [2010-08-26] The annual Obon holidays, with its customs and traditions celebrated in honor of ancestral spirits, ended Tuesday evening on Okinawa with Eisa dance performances and Michi-junea, the parades through local streets.
The three-day Obon is over, but the music and Eisa dance are just now getting into full swing this summer season, with the Yokatsu Peninsula on the island’s east central coast gearing up for Sunday Eisa festivities at the Umi-no-Eki Ayahashi Hall. Read More! [2010-08-19] Chatan Town’s Mihama area – which includes the popular American Village and its Ferris wheel towering over the town—is home to a brightly colored and themed new spot calling itself Depot Island.
There’s no way to miss Depot Island as its dozen buildings are in a half dozen vivid wall colors painted to look like a South American landscape. Read More! [2010-08-12] Ginowan City’s the place to be this weekend, as the central Okinawa city celebrates its 33rd annual Hagoromo Festival, an event that traditionally draws more than 100,000 spectators.
With the concepts of international harmony and friendship as a backdrop, Saturday and Sunday’s festival at Kaihin Park near the Okinawa Convention Center, organizers have a full slate of top notch entertainers geared up to perform, as well as the ever-popular Kachashi competition. Read More! [2010-08-05] Static displays, plenty of entertainment and sports competitions set the stage for this weekend’s 2010 Futenma Flightline Fair.
The festival runs Saturday 3 p. Read More! [2010-08-05] Prayers for a good harvest set the stage for Yonabaru Town’s traditional tug-of-war Sunday, as thousands gather for one of the island’s largest festivals.
The 28th annual Yonabaru Festival has evolved from more than 400 years of inherited traditions, where residents called upon the gods to provide a bountiful crops harvest and to chase devils away. Read More! [2010-07-29] Drums—literally hundreds and hundreds of them—will set the beat for Sunday’s grand finale to Okinawa’s Eisa Parade featuring 10,000 dancers.
The 10,000 Eisa Parade’s crowning event is Sunday afternoon, with 10,000 dancers from 55 groups performing along Kokusai Street in downtown Naha. Read More! [2010-07-22] There’s only one full-size Okinawan brewery, and Orion Breweries churns out 72 million liters of fresh beer each year to please the palates of Okinawan beer drinkers.
Orion’s five beers, plus a non-alcoholic beer as well, are brewed in a modern, computer-controlled factory in the heart of northern Okinawa’s Nago City, where 200 employees diligently toil to create the fresh draft taste tens of thousands of beer lovers love. Read More! [2010-07-08] Tired of encountering a very limited selection of fruits and vegetables in your local commissary or supermarket? Wishing you could buy fresh fish instead of frozen for that tasty dinner you’ve been planning?
The answer is visiting the Itoman Road Station, Itoman Michi-no Eki, a super marketplace where if it isn’t fresh, it isn’t there. The Itoman Road Station is a collaborative effort forged more than a year ago to build upon a very special Farmer’s Market that’s been around for seven years. Read More!
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