Ocean view rentals in Ishigaki island
Kabira bay
It's one of the most famous places of Ishigaki. The sand is white and the waters are blue-emerald green all year round. There you can have a walk on the beach and in the park. However it's forbidden to swim there. It is dangerous as currents are strong. Moreover, glass boats are often coming and leaving.
Parking: fee required
Glass boat trip: about 1000 yens for 30 minutes. Half-price for children aged under 13.
10 min. drive from the house
Facilities in Kabira
NAKAMA SHOUTEN - 仲間商店
This is the main grocery store of the neighbourhood. Easy food, snacks, bread, lunch boxes, cup noodles, drinks, ice creams, vegetables or fruits sometimes.
Address: 918 Kabira, Ishigaki
Tel: 0980-88-2218
Opening hours: 9:00 - 18:00
Normally open everyday. Open hours may change.
AOI-SANGOSHO GLASS BOAT - 青い珊瑚礁グラスボート
At Kabira bay, Aoi-sangosho is one of the companies offering glass boat tours on the bay. It can be interesting for those who don't dive or go snorkeling, or during the cold season.
Address: 913 Kabira, Ishigaki
Tel : 0980-88-2639
Open hours: 9:00 - 17:00
Price before discount:
Adult: 1200 yens - Child: 600 yens
KABIRA GARDEN - 川平ガーデン -SOUVENIR SHOP-
At Kabira bay, Kabira garden is a souvenir shop.
There is a restaurant as well in the building where you can have lunch.
Address: 917-1 Kabira, Ishigaki
Tel : 0980-88-2440
Opening hours : 9 :00-17 :30 (shop)/11:00-14:30 (restaurant)
Open everyday (Opening days and hours change according to the seasons)
KABIRA POST OFFICE - 川平郵便局
Located 10 min. drive from the house, this is the closest place to withdraw money. ATM available in English.
ATM opening hours
Mon-Fri: 8:45～17:30
Saturday: 9:00～12:30
Sunday & holidays: close
Address: 1033-70 Kabira, Ishigaki
Tel: 0980-88-2140
Yonekoyaki craft center
On the road to Yonehara beach, Yonekoyaki is a place where you can see and buy handmade Shisa. In Okinawa, Shisa (シーサー) are lions protecting the houses. You can see them either at the entrance, either on the roof of a house. There are usually two of them, the male and the female. Shisa look a bit different than the lions from Taïwan or China.
At Yonekoyaki you will be able to have a walk in a large park where a lot of cement made Shisas have been made. There is also the shop where you can see/buy home made Shisa.
Free parking. Open 7 days a week. The visit of the shisa park is free (9:00 - 16:50)
Address: 447-1 Fukai, Ishigaki
Tel: 0980-88-2559
5 min. drive from the house
Yaima village
This is a local theme parc where you can experience Ishigaki's culture.
It's nice especially for families with children. It's located near Nagura bay between Kabira and down town.
Address: 967-1 Nagura, Ishigaki
Tel: 0980-82-8798
9:30am - 5:30pm - open 7days a week
ADULT: 1000 yens (from age of 13)
CHILD: 500 yens (children aged from 3 to 6)
15m. drive from the house
Download the Yaimamura English brochure
At Yaimamura, you will be able to...
- Listen to Okinawa's traditional music and songs.
- Have a walk to see mangroves and Ishigaki's trees and flowers.
- See traditional houses.
- See small monkeys (リスザル) at the monkeys area.
- See Nagura bay from the observation deck
Other activites require a fee and/or a reservation...
- Wear a traditional kimono (+500 yens/person)
- Make sata andagi, Okinawa's doughnut. (+1100 yens/person)
- Make Island sandals. (+2200 yens/3 hours)
- Make Okinawa Shisa. (+1300 - 2200 yens/60 min)
- Make painted shell amulet (+ 700 yens/30 min)
- Make a mangroves tour with a guide (+3300 yens. Up to 5 persons/40 min)
At the restaurant you will be able to try (11:00 - 14:30)
- Yaeyama noodles, sparerib noodles, ...
Mineya Kobo
Mineya Kobo (みね屋工房) is a museum & craft center introducing a traditional Okinawan textile called Minsa. Made of cotton (originally ‘Min’ means cotton), its rectangles pattern is particularly famous in the Yaeyama islands, and since over 400 years.
In the past, the Yaeyama women used to give a minsa textile to the man they loved. Another common pattern is the Mukade moyo (centipede pattern). It is made of horizontal lines and beautiful indigo colours.
Opening hours: 9:30-18:30 (open every day)
Entrance fee: free
Address: 1129-2 Arakawa, Ishigaki (south of Nagura bay)
Tel: 0980-83-0039
There are actually two minsa museums. One is located in the center of Ishigaki (Minsa Kogei Museum), the other one is in the South of Nagura bay and has more Indigo colours textile. Both craft centers have traditional hand-weaving work shops (coaster, handkerchief, table cloth...)
https://www.mineya.com/home/trial/trial.html#some
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Ishigaki city Yaeyama museum
Small museum located in the center of Ishigaki. The exhibited items show how the people were living before in the Yaeyama islands (folkcraft instruments, paintings, pottery, ancient tools, clothes...)
Address: 4-1 Tonoshiro, Ishigaki (next to the city hall)
Tel: 0980-82-4712
Opening hours: 9:00-17:00
Closed on Monday, public holidays and new year
Entrance fee: 200 yens
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