~1.5h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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Built in 1819 and the only surviving Ryukyuan aristocratic residence in the Yaeyamas. It was ordered altered at the time because a provincial official was not permitted a house in the capital’s style — and the garden of coral rock behind it is the real reason to go in.
The 1819 residence of the Miyara family, officials of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the only surviving samurai-class house in the Ryukyus. Its garden is a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty. It is small, lived-in and quiet, and it explains more about Ryukyuan society than any museum on the island.
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour stop ashore.
Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
3 hr for bothRound, thin, slightly chewy wheat noodles in a light pork-and-bonito broth, with kamaboko and diced pork belly.
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3 hr for bothFish in colours that look wrong downstairs, a food court above, and the whole Yaeyama larder in between — island salt, chilli oil in awamori, brown sugar, and dried bonito.
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3 hr for bothA belt woven in a repeating five-and-four square pattern, traditionally given by a woman to a man.
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