{"id":63,"date":"2006-05-18T18:18:27","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T18:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2011-10-04T00:24:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T00:24:50","slug":"okinawa-travel-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/travel\/resources\/okinawa-travel-summary","title":{"rendered":"Okinawa Travel Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Okinawan noodle house\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"6\" src=\"http:\/\/okinawa.com\/images\/stories\/marty\/oki2-14_86.jpg\" \/>Tourism is Okinawa&#8217;s largest industry. Okinawa prefecture is host to nearly 5.5 million visitors a year who spend nearly 6 billion US dollars annually.Okinawa is the primary resort vacation destination for Japanese travelers. Tourists can enjoy an ancient culture with 9 world heritage sites, a strong crafts tradition in ceramics, textiles, and glass, a lively contemporary music scene, breathtaking empty beaches and crowded old world market places.<\/div>\n<div>Travel on Okinawa and mainland Japan is extremely safe. Okinawans are known for their culture of courtesy. Food, water, and facilities are hygenic.Tipping is not a Japanese custom.<\/div>\n<div>While the tourism infrastructure is extremely well developed, it is primarily targetted to the Japanese visitor.Foreign visitors should not expect English to be spoken in most establishments.Okinawans have a mixed relationship with Americans because of the large and long American military presence on the island. <\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div><em>Okinawa is good place to smile. A smile, a nod and a hello or &quot;kon nichi wa&quot; to an Okinawan invariably elicits a similiar response and changes the experience of being on the island. &#8211;editor <\/em><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"Entries\">\n<p class=\"entry\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/okinawaexplorer.com\">Okinawa Explorer, A complete guidebook to Okinawa<\/a> The best English language guide book for Okinawa by Kenny Ehman ISBN 0-9768462-0-9. <\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.naha-airport.co.jp\/\">Naha International Airport<\/a> Primary civilian airport with monorail access to Naha. Airport code &#8211; OKA (don&#8217;t confuse Naha, Okinawa with Naha, Indonesia)<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ocvb.or.jp\/en\/\">Okinawa Convention and Visitors Bureau<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/quote.yahoo.com\/m3?u\">Real Time Exchange Rates<\/a> &#8211; Exchange rates for Yen (and other currencies) via Yahoo! Finance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/ana.co.jp\/eng\/\">All Nippon Airways (ANA)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jal.co.jp\/en\/\">Japan Airlines (JAL)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jas.co.jp\/\">Japan Air Systems (JAS)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\">Japan Transocean Air (JTA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\">Air Nippon (ANK)<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\">Ryukyu Air Commuter (RAC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\">Air Dolphin<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\">Asiana Airlines<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\">China Airlines<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\">China Eastern Airlines<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry\">Philippine Airlines<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourism is Okinawa&#8217;s largest industry. Okinawa prefecture is host to nearly 5.5 million visitors a year who spend nearly 6 billion US dollars annually.Okinawa is the primary resort vacation destination for Japanese travelers. Tourists can enjoy an ancient culture with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/travel\/resources\/okinawa-travel-summary\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}