Okinawa Hai!

CONTRIBUTED BY QUENTIN RICHARDSON The first time I rode through Nago on a trip with some co-workers, it seemed like forever. It was the middle of the summer and we seemed to catch every red light on the way up north. Every trip that required travel through Nago after that had the same results, especially [...]

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If you find yourself without a car on Okinawa, you may find the following link to the Okinawan bus lines helpful. Our reader, Erika, submitted the following: When I was on okinawa last month this website would have been useful for me. Even though I read Japanese, the times on the bus stops arent 100% [...]

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I got a fabulous email from Jennifer saying something like, “I’ve been working on a little Google map project.”  That was the understatement of the month!  If you click on the “I’m the Map” link to the right of the Okinawa Hai! banner, you’ll see the massive project she has undertaken to link our posts [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY KANDY Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I would like to dedicate this post to his life, struggles, ideals of non-violence, and legacy as an advocate of human rights. Moving anywhere new has the added struggle of finding your way around let alone in a foreign country.  Here in Okinawa, the street-naming system [...]

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Reader Amy Hester had a great question for me the other day: “Just wondering if you know where there might be any running trails. I have plenty of running routes on roads, I just want to run some off road. I’m willing to drive pretty much anywhere on the island for some trails or even [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY MEREDITH NOVARIO Merry Christmas Eve! The boys are asleep. The cookies and reindeer food are waiting to be sniffed out by Santa and his four-legged pals. The stockings are hung in the stairway with tacks. The dog wants to go for a walk and I'd like to take a shower. Life is good [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY KELLYERACE Has anyone seen this website before?  It looks pretty gosh darn cool. DIDDLEFINGER It's called "Diddlefinger" and the tag is "check English addresses on Japanese maps".  So, when you click on Okinawa, the addresses of the cities come up in English. (Actually, mostly, it's still in Japanese, but I think there's still [...]

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CONTRIBUTED BY MEREDITH NOVARIO When we moved here two years ago, we rented this here house north of Kadena even though my husband worked at Kinser. Kinser is seven miles south of our house. And seven miles didn't sound like a long time because if there are no lights and no traffic and multiple lanes [...]

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