~2h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
Ryukyuan court dress is nothing like a kimono — bingata colour at full saturation, worn loose. A genuinely Okinawan version of an experience most ports offer generically.
Ryuso is Ryukyuan court dress: bingata cloth in yellow and indigo, dyed with stencils and pigments, worn loose and unbelted in a way kimono is not. The colours and patterns once signalled rank. Photographs in it are a modern habit, and one of the few ways the clothing is still seen.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour stop ashore.
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Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
3 hr for bothPotters have worked this street since 1682, when the kingdom gathered its kilns here.
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3 hr 30 min for bothOkinawa's reef fish are the wrong colours — electric blue, parrot green, hard red.
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3 hr 30 min for bothBitter melon stir-fried with tofu, egg and pork, and thick wheat noodles in pork-and-bonito broth that contain no buckwheat at all.
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