~1.5h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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Round, thin, slightly chewy wheat noodles in a light pork-and-bonito broth, with kamaboko and diced pork belly. It is not Okinawa soba, which uses flat noodles and a heavier broth, and asking about the difference is a reliable way to start a conversation.
Yaeyama soba is the southern form of Okinawa soba: round wheat noodles, clear pork and bonito broth, thin-sliced pork on top. The noodles are round rather than flat, which is the local marker. It is served with pipatsu, a long pepper grown in the Yaeyamas and used almost nowhere else in Japan.
The one the queue agrees on, the one people who live here use instead, and the one nearest your ship. Opening days change; check before you build a day around one.
Round noodles, clear pork and bonito broth, and pipatsu pepper on the table.
Open in Google MapsClosest to the berthIshigaki Public Market石垣市公設市場The market building has soba counters as well as the island produce, five minutes from the arcade.
Open in Google MapsEach 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 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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3 hr for bothBuilt in 1819 and the only surviving Ryukyuan aristocratic residence in the Yaeyamas.
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