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Okinawa Sakura Tour (Jan 20 – Jan 30, 2022) 758 Kapahulu Avenue Suite 220 Honolulu, Hawaii 96816 Tel: (808) 739-9010 Fax: (808) 735-0142 TAR#4988 Email address: [email protected] Okinawa Sakura Tour (Jan 20 – Jan 30, 2022) Thursday, Jan 20th Honolulu - Okinawa via Osaka/ Kansai 8:00a.m. Please meet your tour coordinator, TOMOMI SHIMABUKURO at the JAPAN AIRLINES check-in area located in Lobby #5 of the Honolulu International Airport. She will give you your packet with JAL “E – ticket” and luggage tags prior to check-in. Due to tight airport security, you will be checking in individually or as a family. Please have your valid passport ready. 10:45a.m. Depart on Japan Airlines Flt.#791 bound for Osaka Kansai Airport International Airport in Japan. A meal will be served one hour after take-off. In-flight meals: LUNCH: Main entrée’ of Beef or Chicken, Salad, Miso Soup, & Seasonal Ice Cream Prior to arrival: Croissant Sandwich with Yogurt Throughout the flight, you can enjoy JAL's SKY TIME drink (real “Yuzu” Citrus Juice), other soft drinks, assorted beers, wines, sake, coffee, tea, and green tea are complimentary. Complimentary In-flight Movies, TV Dramas, Over 40 Music channels, and limited games Friday, Jan 21st Welcome to Japan (Osaka/Kansai - Okinawa) 3:50p.m. Arrival at Osaka Kansai International Airport. Upon arrival, immigration and customs procedures are required. After customs, please take the elevator to the 2nd Floor of the JAL Domestic counter to check-in which is located on the right-hand side. After check-in for your Okinawa flight is done, you will have some time to eat dinner or snack. The 4th floor has a lot of restaurants & take-out foods. 7:30p.m. Please go thru Security to get to your departure gate. Drinks are allowed, please show your drinks to the security agent, they have a liquid analyzer machine. 8:10p.m. Depart Osaka Kansai on Japan Trans Ocean Flt.#09 bound for Naha, Okinawa. No meals will be served on this domestic flight. 10:30p.m. Arrive NAHA, OKINAWA at NAHA DOMESTIC AIRPORT. Please pickup your own luggage(s) from the carousel in the baggage claim area. For your convience, please use the baggage cart for your luggage. We will proceed to our awaiting chartered motorcoach to transfer to HOTEL PALM ROYAL NAHA, which is located on Kokusai Dori, next to the entrance of the famous Heiwa Dori, open market, & nearby convenience stores like “LAWSON” & “FAMILY MART”. The hotel is less than 10 minutes away from the Monorail, Yui Rail – Makishi Station. Coin laundry facility & Ice Machine on the 2nd floor, so bring your own detergent and fabric softener. Public Bath House located on 2nd floor of Ram Tower, open from 6:00am-10:00am and 4:00pm -11:55pm. Saturday, Jan 22nd Naha – Shuri – Itoman 7:00-8:15a.m Breakfast at the hotel. 9:00a.m. Bus departs for SHURI. Shuri was the ancient capitol of the Ryukyu Kingdom. We will visit SHUREI NO MON and SHURI CASTLE. In 1972, “SHUREI NO MON” (Gate of Courtesy), became a prefectural cultural asset. No entrance to Shuri Castle, fire destroyed the 500 year old World Heritage Site on Oct 31, 2019. Shurei no Mon Shuri Castle Original Gifts Makunouchi Bento Lunch Awamori Chuko Factory & Shop 10:30a.m. Bus departs for HIMEYURI No To (Star Lily Memorial). The monument was erected in remembrance of the female high school students who supported the Japanese military as nurses but were killed during the Battle of Okinawa. We will also tour the HIMEYURI PEACE MUSEUM that finished renovation on 4/12/2021. 12:15p.m. We will have Makunouchi Bento Style lunch at YUBIDO, the restaurant/gift shop that is right cross the museum. 1:15p.m Depart for AWAMORI FACTORY “CHUKO” , the only distillery in Okinawa that creates its unique jars. The factory visit has an English video of Okinawa Awamori and you will be given an opportunity to taste different samples of awamori and umeshu (plum wine). 4:00p.m. Return to Hotel Palm Royal Naha. The rest of the afternoon is at your leisure. Or Tomomi will take anyone who is interested in walking around the famous Heiwa Dori and Matsumoto Shoten for famous konbu, dried shaved Katsuo(bonito), dried Shitake(mushrooms), etc. ( B , L ) Sunday, Jan 23rd Naha (free day) 7:00-9:30a.m Breakfast at hotel. Free day at your leisure for shopping, visiting friends and relatives. Every Sunday from noon until six in the evening a part of Kokusai Street, between the Kumoji intersection and the Makishi monorail station, measuring 1.3 kilometers (.80 mile), is blocked off to vehicles and open to pedestrians only. ( B , L ) Kokusai Dori Block Party on Sundays only from 12pm-6pm Monday, Jan 24th Naha – Nago – Uruma City – Naha 7:00 - 8:15a.m Breakfast at the hotel. Today we will go to the Northern and East coast parts of Okinawa. 8:30a.m Bus departs for MORI NO GARASU (RYUKYU GLASS FACTORY), here you will experience how to blow and make your own glass cups. 11:30a.m Bus departs for the east side of Okinawa overlooking the Pacific Ocean to Henza Island in Uruma City, OKINAWA KAICHU ROAD is a road on the sea spanning 4.7 kilometers (almost 3 miles) the largest of its kind in Asia. It is a beautiful scenic and naturalistic drive. 12:30p.m. We will make a stop at UMI no EKI “AYAHASHIKAN” at the beginning of the road to Henza. We will give you some free time for lunch and shopping at Ayahashikan. Continue on to MIYAGI ISLAND to the “NUCHI MASU FACTORY” (sea salt of Okinawa). Nuchi masu (salt) contains 21 kinds of minerals, which was registered in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2000 for its significant mineral richness. 5:00p.m. Bus arrives back to HOTEL PALM ROYAL NAHA. The rest of the day is at your leisure. ( B ) Tuesday, Jan 25th Naha – Southern Tour 7:00 - 8:15a.m. Breakfast at the hotel. 8:30a.m. Bus departs for the Southern portion of Okinawa. We will visit GYOKUSENDO PARK, which features a large underground stalactite, stalagmite grotto and an exhibit on poisonous Okinawa “Habu” (snakes). Upon arrival, enter Gyokusendo Cave. It takes about 25-30 minutes to walk through the cave. After exiting the cave it will lead you to the tropical garden and Ryukyu Village. 10:30a.m. Watch an Eisa dance performance by local students at the cultural stage, located near the 2nd floor of the gift shop (20 minute performance). 11:15a.m. Lunch (Okinawan food) at Gyokusendo. 12:15p.m. After lunch, free time to shop around, go back to the cultural village or you might want to see the Eisa dance performance again at 12:30p.m. or you could also check-out Dr. Fish inside the Ryukyu Village cost is 600 yen for 5 minutes or 1200 yen for 15 minutes per person. Dr Fish a recent fad in Japan, has the little fish eat away the dead skin of your feet, leaving the healthy skin to grow. Gyokusendo Cave Ryukyu Costume Picture Taking Dr Fish 1:30p.m. Newly added tour attraction, ‘CHURA ICHIGO” Strawberry Farm in NANJO CITY. Enjoy fresh strawberry picking & tasting experience in Okinawa. 3:00p.m. Bus departs for PEACE MEMORIAL PARK. Arrive at OKINAWA PREFECTURAL PEACE MUSEUM, which opened on April 1st 2000. The museum is divided into 4 sections: “The Road to the Battle of Okinawa”, “Okinawan on the Battlefield”,“Room of Testimony”, and “From the Refugee Camps”. Walk freely to the CORNERSTONE OF PEACE (Heiwa no Ishiji). Names inscribed on marble stones of each individual who lost their lives in the Battle of Okinawa. 5:30p.m. Arrival back to Hotel Palm Royal Naha. The rest of your day is at leisure. ( B , L ) Wednesday, Jan 26th Naha – Ishigaki Island No breakfast at the hotel. 5:50a.m. Transfer to Naha Domestic Airport for an interisland flight to Ishigaki. 6:15a.m. Check-in at Naha Airport at JAL. Be sure to check that you have your passport with you. After check in procedures, you are free to roam around the airport or get something to eat. 7:15am Depart on Japan Trans Ocean Flt.#601 bound for Ishigaki. 8:15am Arrive at “ Painushima Ishigaki Airport” upon arrival, please use the restroom inside the baggage claim area before getting on to the bus. 8:45a.m. Sightseeing tour of Ishigaki begins. TAMATORIZAKI OBSERVATORY PLATFORM, the scenic point is quite known, for the view of the East China Sea and Pacific Ocean on the other side can be seen from the vintage point. YONEKO-YAKI, pottery produces the most colorful and possibly the most cute shisa statues in Okinawa. The workshop is just across the road from Yonehara Beach on the northern coastline of Ishigaki. THE RYUKYU PEARL CENTER, at Kabira Bay is Japan’s only source of cultured black pearls. In Japan, the culturing of black pearls are performed only in Kabira Bay of Ishigaki Island & Funaki Bay of Iriomote Island. KABIRA BAY, is said to be the most beautiful spot on Ishigaki Island. The beauty of green, small islands lying in the emerald green sea, the region is undoubtably one of a kind. You will be taking a group picture with the back ground of Kabira Bay. Lunch at the POZA Oba-San no Shokutaku Diner, we will be having Ishigaki Beef Hamburger plate with Yaeyama Soba. TOUJIN BAKA (CHINESE GRAVE), in 1852, 400 laborers being shipped to California, who were supposeed to work as mine workers for the Americans & British traders.
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