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Okinawa Prefecture Industrial Site Guide ○Okinawa Prefectural Government offices outside Okinawa ○Okinawa Prefectural Government offices overseas Connecting Asia to Japan prefecture Beijing Office Fortune Building Tower B Unit 619, No. 3 Tokyo Office Dong San Huan Bei Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing Business HUB "Okinawa" 〒102-0093 Tokyo, Chioyoda-ku, Hirakawa-cho 2-6-3 TEL.+86-10-6466-8679 FAX.+86-10-6466-6693 Todofuken Kaikian, 10F 10 minutes walk from Exit A of Liangmaqiao Station on Line 10 of TEL.03-5212-9087 FAX.03-5212-9086 the Beijing Subway. Approximately 1 minute walk from Exit 9b of Nagatacho Station on the Tokyo Metro Namboku Line. Shanghai Office 〒200001 Room 1603, Block B, Huasheng Tower, No.398 Hankou Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai, China Osaka Office TEL.+86-21-6351-0231 FAX.+86-21-6350-7369 〒530-0001 Osaka, Osaka-shi, Kita-ku, Umeda 1-3-2100 1 minute walk from Exit 4 of East Nanjing Road Station on Line 2 Osaka Station Building 3, 21F of the Shanghai Metro. TEL.06-6344-6828 FAX.06-6346-1784 JApproximately 2 minutes walk from the East Exit of Kitashinchi Station Hong Kong Office on the JR Tozai Line. Unit 1211, 12/F, Prosperity Millennia Plaza, 663 King’s Road, 2021-2022 Approximately 5 minutes walk from Higashi Umeda Station on the North Point, Hong Kong Osaka Municipal Subway Tanimachi Line. TEL.+852-2968-1006 FAX.+852-2968-1003 3 minutes walk from Exit 3 of Hong Kong MTR Quarry Bay Okinawa Prefecture Station Nagoya Information Center Industrial Site Guide 〒460-0008 Aichi, Nagoya, Naka Ward, Sakae 4-16-36 Taipei Office 5F, Hisaya Chunichi Building 4E, No. 148 Songjiang Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City OKINAWA INDUSTRIAL LOCATION TEL.052-263-3618 FAX.052-263-3619 TEL.+886-2-2521-0376 FAX.+886-2-2542-7075 Approximately 4 minutes walk from Exit 1 of Yabacho Station on the 3 minutes walk from Exit 8 of Songjiang Nanjing metro station on the Xinzhuang Line. Nagoya Municipal Subway Meijo Line. Singapore Office The official social media pages of the business facility promotion 1 North Bridge Road #22-09 division has been launched! High Street Centre Singapore 179094 TEL.+65-6694-6408 FAX.+65-6694-5442 5 minutes walk from Exit E of MRT City Hall. Seoul Office 21, The Exchange Seoul 6F, Mugyo-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul, the Republic of Korea TEL.+82-2-318-6330 FAX.+82-2-753-8751 3 minutes walk from City Hall Station (Subway) Okinawa Prefecture Department of Commerce, Industry and Labor, IndustrialSite Promotion Division Okinawa, Naha-shi, Izumizaki 1-2-2, Okinawa Prefectural Government Office, 8F TEL 098-866-2770 FAX 098-866-2846 3 minutes walk from Kencho-mae Station on Okinawa Urban Monorail. http://www.pref.okinawa.lg.jp/zone March 2021 E-mail:[email protected] SDGs are promoted in Okinawa Prefecture. Okinawa Special Economic Zone Cape Hedo Kunigami Village Hijio Falls Ogimi Village Okinawa Churaumi Higashi Ie Village Kouri Bridge Aquarium Nakijin Village Castle Ruins Nakijin Village Motobu Town Gesashi Bay Mangrove Forest Nago City Kyoda IC Okinawa Expressway Naha Airport Expressway Ginoza Village Cape Manzamo Onna Ginoza IC Village Yaka IC Kin IC Kin Town Ishikawa IC Cape Zanpa Zakimi Castle Ruins Yomitan Village Okinawa-kita IC Uruma City Kadena Katsuren Mid-Sea Road Town Okinawa- minami IC Castle Ruins Okinawa City Chatan Town Kitanakagusuku Village Depot Island Kita-nakagusuku IC Nakagusuku Ginowan Castle Ruins City Nakagusuku Village Nishihara IC Urasoe City Ryukyu University Shurijo Nishihara Town Castle Park Naha City Nishihara JCT Kokusai- Yonabaru Town dori Naha IC Haebaru Haebaru-kita IC Sefa-utaki Naha Air Port Town Kudaka Haebaru-minami IC Island Tomigusuku City Nanjo City Umikaji Terrace Tomigusuku/Nakachi IC Senagajima Yaese Town Itoman City Peace Memorial Park.
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