Monday, 24 February 2020 was a Japanese national holiday in observance of replacement of New Emperor’s Birthday on Sunday, 23 February 2020.
I took few more days off to go to Miyakojima, Okinawa from 21 – 25 February 2020.
There is a direct flight from Haneda Airport to Miyakojima which takes three hours to my surprise – three hours…
I look forward to use the lounge for domestic flight and I thought we are going to have a bite there.
However, I was informed that there aren’t any food.
When I reached at Haneda Airport, I spotted Mac Donald and suddenly I had a craving for Sausage Egg Muffin, regular Mac Breakfast.
Nonetheless, we stopped at ANA Lounge.
It’s time for boarding.
This is when we realized the flight takes three hours.
The distance must be almost same as reaching to Guam…?
Another world, I could go to overseas with three hours flight.
Today, ANA briefs flight safety in Kabuki (Japanese traditional play) Style.
As you can see, we are not provided an individual screen.
We need to be creative to enjoy flight entertainment which I failed to do so by forgetting to bring my head set for iPhone X.
We are finally approaching to Miyakojima, Okinawa.
It takes two hours to the capital city of Okinawa, Naha, meaning Miyakojima is located much farther.
Once we reached Miyakojima, we checked in at Coral Island Hotel.
We unpacked and waited for other friend from Osaka to join us for dinner.
Unfortunately, this nice Okinawan and Miyakojima local food restaurant, Bocha Tatsuya doesn’t allowed to take any photos of food.
I took some photos for my memory but sorry, I should not post any to respect the restaurant.
This restaurant is must go to enjoy delicious local Miyakojima food.
Despite enjoying various Miyakojima local food, we followed the Okinawan custom – eat steak for last meal of the day.
We went to famous Steak House Leon for a steak and local beer, Orion.
Please remember we just had various dishes and we even emptied two bottles of Awamori (distill made of Thai rice which contains 30 – 45 percent alcohol) at the restaurant.
However this is what each of us had after good food. hahaha
The hotel provides us simple breakfast such as bread, egg or yogurt and drink (tea, coffee, milk and water).
I could enhance it by buying salad and yogurt myself but I’ve been having nice dinner so these are sufficient.
We engaged Aqua Story for three-day diving (3 dives x 3 days).
We passed famous Irabu Ohashi (Irabu Big Bridge) every day.
The diving spots for Miyakojima are famous for Chikei (landscape).
We dive through a hole, looking at cracks and shape of rocks and how sun light reaches at the bottom of ocean.
Sometimes we go up to surface and dive back to return.
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