Okinawa — Places to eat
Windows down, heading north along a turquoise coast.
- Jimanya Naha — Pineapple pork and awamori in a 50-year-old house
- Warayui — Folk-song live music, rafute and Ishigaki beef
- Tashimaya — Mozuku and fu champuru in the market lanes
- Tareya — Ishigaki beef nigiri at ¥150 a piece
- Yoshizaki Shokudo Kumoji — Agu pork dishes at a Kumoji evening shokudo
- Kawakami Fresh Fish — 3 drinks, sashimi and a side for ¥1,000
- Kushi Nakama — Agu pork and sea grape skewers, senbero gacha
- Fukusuke's Tamagoyaki (Ichiba Hondori) — Pork tamago onigiri with a 3 cm-thick omelet
- Ryukyu Cuisine Mie — Ryukyu court-style courses in a long-running upscale house
- Shokusai Shubo Matsumoto — Hard-to-book Agu pork shabu-shabu
- Maisukuya — Soki and sanmai-niku soba in Tsuboya
- Yaki no Sakana Shima — Grilled fish set meals with refillable rice
- Tsukiji Aozora Sandaime Naha — Counter sushi with local fish, 11 pieces for ¥5,120
- Sushi Mu-ni — Among Naha's priciest sushi omakase
- Okinawaen — Ishigaki Misaki beef, charcoal-grilled or as shabu-shabu
- Loins Kumoji — Uni-topped meat sushi; yakiniku that opens at lunch
- Maruyama (Nago eel) — Nago eel rice boxes and fried eel bones, cash only
- Bistro Montmartre — French bistro near Omoromachi, 5-course lunch ¥3,500
- A&W Naha Kanagusuku — A&W burgers, found only in Okinawa within Japan
- Ralph's Burger Restaurant — Made-to-order oversized burgers, until sold out
- Fujiya (Tomari main shop) — Fujiya zenzai: ice frozen from the bean-simmering water
- Insha-allah — A 50-year-old coffee shop with rose cream swirling in the cup
- T&M Coffee — A small converted old house one block off Kokusai-dori
- Tasokare Coffee — Dark nel-drip coffee and fruit tart
- Okashigoten (Kokusai-dori Matsuo store) — Home of the original purple-sweet-potato tart
- Cafe Yabusachi — A cliff cafe overlooking Hyakuna Beach
- Cafe Kurukuma — A hilltop Thai-curry cafe with a sea view
- Banta Cafe by Hoshino Resorts — A cliff-top cafe for watching the sunset
- ZHYVAGO Coffee Works — West-coast-style roasted coffee on a sea terrace
- On the Beach Cafe — A north-coast cafe where every seat faces the sea
- FIFI PARLOR — A swing facing the sea and freshly fried churros
- Cafe Kokuu — A vegetable-focused cafe with views to Iejima
- Shuri Soba — Okinawa soba by Shuri Castle, open until the noodles run out
- Okinawa Soba Eibun — Okinawa soba reworked with a modern touch, by the pottery street
- Kishimoto Shokudo (main shop) — A Motobu soba house boiling noodles over firewood since 1905
- King Tacos (Kin main shop) — Taco rice heaped with cheese and veg on the street where it was born
- Jack's Steak House — Grilling since 1953: the original Okinawan post-war steak
- Steak House 88 (Tsuji main store) — The late-night 'finishing steak', open till 2 a.m.
- Agu Pork Shabu-Shabu Juju (main shop) — Four cuts of Agu pork, compared in a shabu-shabu dinner
- Yunangi — Okinawan home cooking, goya champuru included, since 1970
- Daiichi Makishi Public Market — Pick fish downstairs, have it cooked upstairs: Naha's kitchen
- Pork Tamago Onigiri (Makishi Market shop) — Okinawa's breakfast onigiri: Spam and egg wrapped in nori
- Charlie Tacos (Takoyu main shop) — Crunchy tacos with long roots in the base town of Koza
- Blue Seal (Kokusai-dori) — Okinawa's base-born ice cream; get a scoop of purple yam
- Senjyu (Sennichi) — Since 1962: Okinawan zenzai, sweet beans under a mountain of ice
- Hamabe no Chaya — A seaside café where low tide bares the reef right below the window
- Senagajima Umikaji Terrace — White terraced cafés on a seaside slope, planes roaring overhead
- Izakaya Urizun — Naha izakaya serving Ryukyu dishes since 1972
- Ufuya — Soba and agu shabu in a 100-year-old house
- Yanbaru Soba — A bowl of soki soba on the northern road
- Yakiniku King (Naha Shintoshin) — Self-grill chain in the Shintoshin area
- Izakaya Tiidanbui Kokusai-dori — Agu shabu and awamori near Kokusai Street
- Yaki no Uojima — Grilled-fish sets in Kumoji, lunch and dinner
- Zhyvago Coffee Works (American Village) — House-roasted coffee with the sea in view