🇯🇵 We Bought Yachimun & Made Our Own Shisa in Okinawa 🏝️
**Okinawa has its own pottery, its own castles, its own food. It’s Japan, but more alive**
We spent a few days in the main Okinawan island, exploring and experiencing the tradition of Japan’s tropical region.
We visited the Tsuboya Pottery Street and Yachimun no Sato, the places to go if you like Okinawan traditional ceramics, Yachimun. We had fun making our own shisa, the lion-dog statues that guard rooftops in the islands. It was a great experience working with the local clay.
We also visited the ruins of the Zakimi castle, in Yomitan. This Ryukyu fortress is over 600 years old and still stands, despite its troubled past.
Finally, we visited the Churaumi Aquarium, one of the largest in the world and home of Jinta, the whale shark. He shares his tank with incredible manta rays and other large fish.
Of course we also ate a lot of delicious Okinawan food.
We came for the pottery but enjoyed everything Okinawa, Okinawa ☺️🏝️
//Timecode
00:00 Intro
01:13 Walking in Naha
02:58 Making a Shisa
04:38 Lunch at Nushigafu
06:26 Walking outside looking for a Kakigori
09:06 Second day : going to Yachimun
10:56 Clay Restaurant
12:35 Walking in Yachimun
14:45 Another kakigori at Mori no Chaya
15:45 Zakimi Castle
18:22 Toguchi Beach
19:55 Third day : going to the aquarium but eating first!
21:49 Churaumi Aquarium
24:24 Little sunset
25:08 Leaving Okinawa
//Music
Phalene- うみんちゅ
Roots and Recognition – Solitude
Victor Lundberg – Skyward Bound
Tellsonic – Summer Rain
Candelion – Seven Thirty
Staffan Carlen – Solace
Ever So Blue – Mien
Tellsonic – Shadows of Clarity
Vicky Vox – Getting Good at Letting Go (Instrumental)
#slowtravel #okinawa #shisa #yachimun #pottery #japantravel #yomitan #churaumiaquarium