🏨Where I stayed in Okinawa for 14 days-Central Region
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Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025
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First of all, let's review the geographic location. The Chubu area mentioned in this article is on the north side of Naha, where the main city of Okinawa is located, but like Phuket Town on Phuket Island, it doesn't have a strong presence.
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Okinawa in general or the west side than the east side of the development of more earlier, so when it comes to the central part, have an impression of the attractions are also concentrated in the west coast, such as the American village, Ryukyu village, Kadena U.S. military base and all kinds of sunset beach, etc. <<If these you all think it sounds strange, then the other small attractions that are not known to be even less need to say haha, Okinawa serious attractions are really not a few.
Chubu is more of a vacation destination than a sightseeing destination, and it's seldom mentioned in day trips, so it doesn't get much publicity. First of all, the central part of the distance from Naha is too close, take a taxi to half an hour, take the bus less than 1 hour can also be to the coastal route, all the way to the seascape, tourists want to go to the tourists is also very convenient, do not need to travel all the way to the bus. Secondly, the sunshine beach town of this kind, also not suitable for the time, play good immediately go to the next stop, we prefer to stay a little longer to kill time.
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These factors, naturally gathered a sea view resort hotels, we have a section of the journey from north to south back to Naha by taking the bus from the various hotels along the way to send the guests to the airport, originally on the bus when the car was empty, but the result is that at each stop there are a bunch of children's families get on the bus, and finally actually full seats to Naha.
Along the way in fact, some hotels before the search also want to try, such as the ordinary room but the public area is super beautiful Hotel Nikko Alivila !
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There is also a parent-child super favorite Renaissance Okinawa, the hotel has its own aquarium, dolphins, ah devil fish can pay money to touch, the children smile.
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Hoshinoya Okinawa

Opening in 2020
Keywords: natural simplicity, unique home feeling, quiet lie flat
This time, I tried HOSHINOYA first, and compared to it, the parent-child attribute is not too high, and you can hardly see children within the hotel, so it should be more oriented to young couples or friends' clientele.
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The special thing about this hotel is that, unlike many hotels, it doesn't emphasize the public areas and make them beautiful to attract people to use it, but instead it seems to be weakening the existence of the public areas. First of all, the buildings are separated from the monolithic distribution along the coastline, the dynamic line pulls a special long, most of the rooms to the public area have to walk for a while; and it is also not intentionally connect the routes, for example, from a separate front desk check-in, although the swimming pool lounge is next door, but the service staff do not take through, but from the external walkway directly to the guests to their respective rooms; the parking lot is in the outer layer of the guest rooms, although and the rooms separated by many layers. Although there are many layers of greenery separating the rooms, you can directly enter the parking lot (imagine a motel), and you don't need to go around from the public area; furthermore, the kitchen in the room is also well-equipped, and as I mentioned last time, it is also equipped with a cooking plate, so it's very convenient to cook something by yourself without having to go to the restaurant to look for something to eat. So with the exception of the little house where you check in, guests can technically stop going through the public area altogether.
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Do you want to create the atmosphere of “your own vacation home”, so that guests can relax and feel “I'm not in a hotel, but my own villa in Okinawa”?
Honestly speaking, the room is really quite good, this time, if not for the thought of still need to see the hotel, I am a bit lazy to find the pool ah lounge, ran far, and finally just a quick glance. Even to the end did not have time to go to the most extreme end of the net coffee.
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A lot of people were attracted to this Banta Cafe by various travel magazines. Hoshino good at this kind of net red point, not limited to guests, who can come to card, a piece of land hate to get out 78910 aircraft, turn a direction is a card point, from the scenery to space to create to the operation of the experience, not afraid that you do not have something to pass to the Internet.
The hotel check-in is in this tiny space, like light leaking into the ocean floor.
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Finding your way to your room through the various native plants. One floor of the building in particular was so tightly packed with plants that we were afraid we'd run into someone else's house on the way back at night.
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The rooms are quite plain, after all the focus is on the sea view outside. Because of the coastal construction, every room is guaranteed to have a view of the sea.
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There are three types of rooms in total, and the one we stayed in is called Haru (“field” in Okinawan), which is a balcony with a sea view. The layout may look ordinary, but unexpectedly, every space has been put to good use by us: drinking tea and eating snacks by the tea table; those who love to get drunk on the sofa made full use of the sleeper sofa opposite the bed; the next morning, we woke up to see our friends already doing yoga on the balcony, not to mention DIY dinner in the kitchen. The next morning, we saw our friends already doing yoga on the balcony, not to mention DIY dinner in the kitchen... There is a corresponding area for everything, so we won't collide with other users, and it feels like a standard type of room that is the result of many years of operation experience.
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The other, slightly larger type is called Fushi (“star” in Okinawan), which is wider in width, with functional areas arranged horizontally, a dining room overlooking the sea, and a table-warming area surrounded by a coffee table and a sleeper sofa. This does have a bigger view of the sea, but the outdoor balcony is smaller.
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The largest house is this Tida (“sun” in Okinawan), a 2-bedroom house with a pool.
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The kitchen maneuvering area looks like this, and the sliding door on the right opens to the large refrigerator. There are also Panasonic cooking plates in the drawer
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Look at the room in this way really does not come out of the film ah, the bathroom I can not bear to put up, washbasin program put forward to be scolded by the extent of the domestic owners ... but this is called to spend the money on the edge of the knife it.
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The breakfast room is tiny, and you can make reservations early for ocean view seating, which, uh, we didn't get.
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The food is still in the form of a full set menu, and there is a water bar with 4-5 local creative drinks that you can help yourself to.
Set meals are divided into Ryukyu style and Sicilian style, Ryukyu style can be understood, after all, the local taste and the local so-called “Japanese breakfast” is quite different, but where does the “Sicilian style”? But where does the “Sicilian” come from? Is it because both sides of the island are separate from the mainland and hard to associate them together? It's true that if the menu says “Continental” or “English Breakfast” it looks a bit boring, but if it says “Sicilian” it makes me want to look at it.
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Ryukyu style set meal looks like this, in which boiled fish, braised pork, stewed rice and tofu soup are quite typical Okinawan dishes, and here breakfast is also a kind of experience all at once. However, the dishes are probably too similar to those in our coastal area, so the novelty level is a bit lacking. The only thing I would like to commend is the fruit is so delicious, pineapple and papaya! The papaya surpassed all the papayas I've ever eaten in my life, it was sweet and tender (my Taiwanese friend raised his hand “please let me say something”)
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Sicilian Style was ordered as well. Upon closer examination, maybe the frittata underneath the loose egg and the Brioche col Tuppo con gelato are Sicilian Style? Not sure, does tomato soup count?
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Trying to explore nature, the coastline where the hotel is located is possible to walk along the beach, but this sea is only suitable for viewing from afar, you can not play in the sand or swim, at most, pick up some coral shells. Once again, it is confirmed that it is more suitable for adults who like to be quiet but not active.
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East Asia University and the most comfortable distance between the interaction of nature is this: the sea can look, do not need to approach; pool can take pictures, do not need to swim, but completely do not touch the water it seems a little meaning, so the hotel to do a piece of shallow pools can be soaked feet, can be soaked feet while drinking, the perfect solution to the problem.
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