Daily Travel Photo – Okinawa, Japan
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Five hundred years of Ryukyuan history (12th-17th century) are represented by this group of sites and monuments. The ruins [...]
Daily Photo – Okinawa, Japan
Dancer in traditional dress at Shuri Castle
Daily Travel Photo – Naha, Okinawa, Japan
This is a gate at Shuri Castle in Okinawa. LIke many of the historic castles in Japan, it was destroyed in WWII. What you see now has been rebuilt since the end of the war.
This Isn’t My First Time You know….
Kokusai Street
This isn’t my first time in Japan. I was here for one day in 1999 during a stop over from the US to Taiwan. We took off in a blizzard and the de-icing on the wings required a fuel stop in Anchorage. The delays resulted in me missing my flight to Taipei so [...]
Lost in Translation
Well, I made it to Okinawa.
The flight was only about an hour long. The real difficulty was when I got on the ground. There were no working ATM machines that took foreign cards in the international terminal, and only one in the domestic terminal. There were no places available to change currency. Very little [...]
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