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Naha's main street is empty after holidays.
Soup stock is made from smoked sea snake, black-banded sea krait or locally irabū. Irabū is a sacred creature and highly valued.
Soba is buckwheat noodles in mainland Japan, but in Okinawa soba (or suba in Ryuku language) is made from wheat flour. Beside soba is jūshī (cooked rice with vegitables and seasoning).
A hexagonal small building on a pond for welcoming delegations from China. Now welcoming kids.
Shikina-En is a garden with a guest-house of Ryukyu Kingdom that has 15 rooms.
Shikina-En is a part of World Heritage Sites 'Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu,' and was registered in 2000. Most of buildings there were destroyed during WWII.