Okinawa is one of the most popular tropical getaways in Japan for its beautiful beaches and cool historical sites.

And it's all the way down here.

Well, it's still hard to see, so let me zoom in a bit.

Here it is.

Okinawa seems like a small island, but in fact, it takes about three and 1/2 hours to drive from the bottom to the top of the island.

Sebesta, choose an area.

Okinawa could be divided into three parts the south, the middle and the North.

For this video, we're going to do a one day plan in the middle area of Okinawa.

Finally, we made it.

OK, now we finally got out of a mommy, which took us about a day and 1/2 to get out of there.

We're stuck here for another two days.

Uh oh, my God.

Once we got there today, we had, like, a two hour delay here that it looks like our flight is delayed because they're doing maintenance in Okinawa on the plane, because way finally made it.

And now we're in beautiful Okinawa.

Sea life does work out for this trip.

We rented a car which is a must.

If you want to get around on your own, that's a little bit different than in Tokyo.

Actually read the barcode instead of actually putting it through the scanner.

You just tap it.

Which is really nice, if you must know.

He rented a car terrorized Rent a car at the Eon Aha office, which is only two stops away from the airport.

We took the monorail to get there, so let's sit back and enjoy the view.

So you got a rental car that head to the hotel wasn't so bad.

The rental car place is Good way.

Got a car now, but it's a bit too late, so we'll start our Okinawa adventure first thing in the morning.

But damn look at that beautiful sky.

We're going to start at Rio Cube, but it's a huge cultural theme park where you can enjoy a nostalgic Okinawan world by seeing authentic, nationally protected cultural properties that were relocated into the steam park.

It's cool.

You can actually wear these tomatoes and, like, dress up.

It should be pretty fun, definitely working now.

I'm just like looking around, and there's like a lot of things to do.

So essentially you could spend like a few hours here all day and just like check out this entire site.

You can also experience cultural trial classes like making Okinawan pottery.

Or she's just at use, watch live shows and even do some sake testing.

There's so many different argent crabs here that you could do one of the classes here is a lot to teach you howto we've just pretty cool.

These ladies will teach you Awesome.

So cool each house, they have, like a center area and they have this role here.

And maybe, let's ask this lady number.

The reason why they have this is to prevent wind from rushing into the house.

And it also prevents evil spirits, which is a good thing.

So if you haven't noticed, But each house, they have a little dog that sitting on top of it like a little dog statue, it's also to help prevent evil spirits from coming into the house.

All right, that wraps it up.

Let's move on to the next place, I believe.

Next we're gonna check out the biggest shopping resort in Chubu American Village.

Yeah, I know.

It may be strange to come all the way to Okinawa to visit an American like shopping wall.

But it's very influenced by Okinawan culture built on a former US face.

The building's air mix of American in Okinawan design.

It's tissue paper.

That's kind of cute, huh?

We're at American Village now.

We've walked around a little bit.

I'm kind of getting a little hungry a little bit, but not so much.

I wanted to check this place out because it had black tacos.

All right, check this out, huh?

Taco show is made out of squid ink on it comes like a squid sauce as well.

It's like a rather couple vegetable.

And as taco me have some cheese tasting.

Well, that was a C thank you.

Power talking shop.

Now we're going to go check out Lucille, which is like a very, very Okinawa staple of restaurants.

They're known for ice cream, but I believe they have burgers too.

Well, I'm not really sure.

Let's go inside and check it out.

So I got blue seal ice cream.

I got San Francisco chocolate chip mint and I got this rainbow of array of flavors.

I was wrong.

They don't sell like hamburgers or anything.

They just sell like ice cream and frozen drinks as well as Michael.

Got a crate.

I got that cheese cream brulee with anyone.

Just All right, Let's say so.

Bad board.

Have you ever had back today?

Now and laters.

Kind of like candy.

Penitence like that with all the different flavors were good then Chocolate chip manship Really good as well.

I don't really know what sad friends.

Let's go about it.

But so pretty good.

Oh yeah, and Sunset Beach is right next to American Village, So definitely walk over and check it out.

So this right here is the beach.

It doesn't look like there's a lot of people at the moment, because maybe it's a one, but the tide is really low.

There's just a lot of hotels around this area.

Wouldn't mind actually staying in the sale because it has American village restaurants and as shopping, and it's right by the beach, and I think during high tide it's gonna be that bad.

Thio be able to swim and they have lifeguards and you have some kids and you want to be saved in the ocean.

This is a good place to go, So overall I think this area is really good for families.

Now, if you want it a little bit more of this like waves and ocean, this is probably not the place you want to go in terms of the beach.

But if you have a family and you just like trying to come out here, I think this would be a very good place to go Hotel one, Another hotel there on DDE, another hotel there.

So, like three hotels and there's actually like Maur hotels all over there.

But just from here, you can't see it like with a beach right behind me.

It's getting a bit late now, so let's move on to Samba Beach.

Just made it to the beach.

So after a long day, I'm just checking out Okinawa.

Sometimes you just need to go to the beach and watch the sun go down.

For now, just enjoy the quiet chilling on the beach and checking out that sunset.

Maybe really hungry.

We decided to go to San.

She know Hannah in on Amada to finish the night out in Okinawa.

Wow, this place is super cool men.

That sunset was amazing, but now we get to general lack.

I guess you were election to the sunset, but now they get a get a little performance from Okinawa.

Food.

Just It's called me Mika.

Take that out.

There's a frickin snake right in front of us.

A man is coming, and everything is so good, so good.

Yeah.

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So Michael and I had a few drinks.

Obviously, we drove here.

One of the cool things in Japan is you can order, I think on the psycho, and it's kind of like a designated driver.

What we'll do is we'll pick you up in your car and I'll drive you all the way to your home on the way they do it is two guys come.

One guy drives your car home.

Another person follows behind.

Once you arrived at destination, then goes home with the other taxi.

We only had a few drinks, but I'd rather err on the side of caution.

You don't want to drink and dry, plain and simple.

He saved drink responsibly.

And if you're driving, get someone to take you, huh?

Yeah.