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I searched for the southern part of Okinawa before I left for my trip, but I didn't really find any place that appealed to me to stay.
If you're talking about beaches, there are beautiful beaches everywhere in Okinawa, so just find one near you. As for attractions, Heiwa Prayer Park? It's hard to walk around the park in the sun? Yuquan Cave? Domestic stalactite cave is not enough for me to see or what? Saba Ontake? Japan this kind of feudal superstition power spot us foreigners and do not understand (sorry actually is a monument, later still went) ... vomit a circle after let me still firmly to go to the south around in fact because of the B&B there.
Many years ago on airbnb collection of Koreans opened an Okinawan bed and breakfast, I have to say that the aesthetic piece of the Korean really take hold of: the forest in the cabin, inside and outside of the open living room, hammock, attic ...... is exactly the magazine's ideal life scene.
Because of this case, I thought for a while that Okinawa had a lot of similar houses, but it doesn't, most of the popular areas were developed early and have been filled with regular modern condos and villas, and the local market isn't so rolled up that there's no pressure on landlords to keep updating their listings. Instead, the south and north, where few people have set foot in the past, have left quite a bit of space for newcomers & outsiders to develop.
Owners of B&Bs or other facilities that have set up roots in relatively remote places are more interested in the unique environment of the area, the possibilities of nearby communities, and the interactions between the space and the area than the added value that location brings to the house. Most of them used to live in the city, and maybe even live in the city half of the time now, so it is only natural that they bring the aesthetics and habits of city dwellers into the spaces they create, and then mix in the parts of the local culture that spark their interest to create places that are exotic and aesthetically pleasing to city dwellers.
Huh, that's like talking about Bali.
I've often said that Bali is a case of data-rich city dwellers “editing” the island: we don't like Bali for its local customs, we like it for what we've “edited”: the photo ops, the beautiful shops with beautiful crafts, the “chefs from New York cooking creative dishes with local ingredients”; we like to see the bizarre stories of culture shock, and we even want to see the culture shock of the strange stories. We love the “edited” content: the photo ops, the pretty stores with beautiful crafts, the “New York chef cooking creative dishes with local ingredients”; we love to read the bizarre stories of culture shock, and we even hope to replicate the same experience ourselves.
Sometimes it's a little silly to think that city dwellers keep chasing the same things everywhere they go ......
🤗 Marinx Classic Harborview Pension
Opening in 2019
Keywords: hipster favorite, experience-rich, convenient location
Who knew that the collection of B&Bs would be too popular to make time for, we ended up staying in the south at exactly the kind of beachside inn that attracts silly city folk.
This Marinx Harbor was found on POPEYE's Okinawa special, I didn't have much reaction when I saw the skateboarding venue, BBQ, and swimming pool, but I continued to see the barber store and DJ booths which really made me snort with laughter, is this a reference to POPEYE's readers' portraits made 1:1?
I really saw several guests in the public area dressed in funky clothes, not a beach vibe at all.
It's exactly the kind of lodging complex that my ex-planning colleague who flips through popeye on weekdays and whose weekend hobbies are skateboarding and amateur DJing will open when he returns home and inherits his father's barbershop.
Even the food menu at 1F Café is very much in the vein of my ex-director's, “using local ingredients to reflect the specialties, but simple enough not to rely too heavily on the culinary skills of the operation staff, resulting in poor quality control”. The strong sense of immediacy led to a honeyed smile the entire time I stayed here.
Okinawan Bitter Melon Sandwich
Spaghetti with Okinawan tofu and beef sauce (with Okinawan soba noodles)
Transportation is pretty easy, you can take one bus from Naha that goes straight to a nearby stop that's a 5 minute walk away.
We were also able to get to most of the sights in Nanbu via some sightseeing buses before we waited for our friends who were driving to meet us, and we also took a taxi when we were in a hurry or too tired. But you can't expect to be able to hail a cab here as readily as you can in the popular areas, and sometimes you'll still have to wait quite a long time if there's no car passing by in the neighborhood just by chance.
It's not bad enough, we've been running directly to people's cab companies in the villages in the north to call for a cab, the apps are not even being used by anyone.
The two-story building faces the sea, the first floor is the public area, the second floor is the guest room.
The open concrete area in the front yard on the first floor is a skateboarding rink, and the area covered by greenery is a small swimming pool, which wasn't too hot when we were there, and there was no water in the pool.
Further inside the eaves covered outdoor put a table in the center of the hollow, is the area can be BBQ. In the evening, I ordered the BBQ set menu provided by the hotel, which was convenient and not too expensive.
For those who want to eat a little bit of everything, the set menu just won't cut it. Luckily, BBQ venues are free to use later in the day, and after sweeping around the butcher's and supermarket, we kicked off the night with a little disposable charcoal grill.
Continuing into the interior is the front desk + barber store + coffee bar + small store + DJ booth composite area (gasp)
The place is small but the locations are well organized, and when there are events the folding doors are pulled open to open up to the outside, which can also accommodate quite a few people, and it's tropically good to see on their social media that events are often held here.
On a side note, one of my favorite areas in overseas hotels is the advertisement page rack/cabinet. No matter how big or small the hotel is, there will be some information or advertisements about the surrounding area or the activities in the hotel, which will occasionally bring some new ideas of fun that you can't find on the internet, and even if there's nothing to arouse your interest, the design of the posters can be used as a pictorial to enjoy it, especially in the country of Japan, which is a big country in terms of paper products. This is especially true in Japan, a country that produces a lot of paper.
I think a lot of domestic lodging will do around the content, but generally can not see these front desk, think about what may be their early development of the publishing industry, accustomed to what are made into a physical print out, and we are synchronized with the development of the electronic, most of the release on the Internet, the advantage is more environmentally friendly to reduce waste, the disadvantage is the vast amount of information on the Internet, filtering also need to spend a lot of effort, and after a few years of good and bad Washed away together, nothing left.
The rooms are of two kinds, the sea-facing twin-bedded rooms with bathrooms, and on the other side of the corridor are the high-low bunk rooms with public bathrooms. Because the first day of the sea view room is not available, only bunk beds, I will be two kinds of both live to.
Not much to say about the bunk beds, mostly I was shocked by the extreme storage on the stair steps.
It has a bathroom, but it's small and compact, so if there are a lot of people, you'll still need to use the public bathroom in order to save time, which is not a problem for those who are used to living in a dormitory at school.
Outside the balcony, there is a small park with a sea view, sorry I didn't take any pictures, just imagine the view from the first floor below.
At first I did not book to the heart of the longed-for B&B in fact, the heart is quite regrettable, but after coming very much feel that this is actually a different way to play, anyway, the room is small, do not stay is not a waste of time, it is every day outside to play, the attractions also went to the seaport fish market also went to the nearby small fishing villages also shopped, the primitive forest is also explored, barbecue, and almost want to get a haircut (this one is almost a haircut of 100 more than 200 more than the coloring of the hair. Maybe you see a lot of small red book, Japan haircut cheaper than domestic), to play with the water is also completely conditional, although there was no plan to play with the water here on the appointment, but look at their official website, several operators are diving, surfing, paddle boarding instructor, the water project must be at your fingertips.
Because of the play around, also really kind of like the south.
We went to the place we did not see the city, in addition to the famous attractions, there are a lot of everywhere by the little developed nature: supermarkets on the road to walk 10 minutes into the forest, the ground large hermit crabs randomly pick up.
Situated on a hill, there is still a queue for the creative restaurant, the standard is super high and not inferior to the big city, the ingredients come from home-grown and nearby farmers, the lunch set of three-course meal with coffee is a great deal of 2,500 yen, and the space is very dreamy as if a picture book has come into reality.
If it wasn't for the language limiting play, Okinawa has every potential to be the next Bali, right?
POPEYE is a Japanese lifestyle magazine founded in 1976, known as the “city boy's guide to life”. It covers fashion, travel, food, culture and art, and is known for its natural and realistic style and creative layout. Aimed primarily at young men between the ages of 20 and 30, it is an iconic magazine in Japan's fashion and culture scene, showcasing the trends and tastes of urban life.
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