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We flew from Hiroshima Airport to Okinawa on the 10th. The weather was bad the first 2 days but we didn't mind. This was the view from the balcony of our room. The hotel was high on a hill in a residential area far from beaches, far from entertainment or shopping areas. We hope to go back to Okinawa some day. When we do, we will stay somewhere close to the monorail sytem in Naha so we can get around. And we will pre-arrange some tours of the historic sites and scenery of Okinawa. |
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A shisa on a house in the neighborhood. |
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Another residential shisa. |
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A boulevard lined with palm trees. Looks kinda like southern California. This photo was taken the day I walked down to the post office. (I bought a couple of "Big Macs" (yes, McD's) and took them back to the hotel for our lunch that day. |
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Strange-looking palm tree. (I think it was a use-car lot.) |
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A view from the road below our hotel. You can't see it well in this photo, but in the lower corner you can just see part of some tombs by the roadside. We saw lots of these tombs everywhere we walked, on small residential streets, and on main streets with businesses and bus lines, too. Like a cemetary strung out along all the roadsides in the area. We though it was pretty strange. |
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gray skies view. |
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Here is another shisa. This one has a closed mouth. Located in a dining and shopping area at the Naha Airport. |
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Here is the other shisa from the pair at the Naha Airport. This one has its mouth open. |
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I thought these planted terraces along side a long escalator at the airport were pretty. |