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Full of charms of wonderful Okinawa! Endless blue sky, tropical flowers blooming under the shiny sun and sweet smell of the southern wind. Okinawa, where the unique Ryukyu Kingdom florished from the olden times. Vibrant traditional artifacts and culture are still there. Make your own craft item in Traditional Crafts Village, where you will be welcomed by many old local houses with beautiful red roof tiles, explore Gyokusendo, a stunningly beautiful limestone cave grown on a coral reef, and enjoy heroic Eisa dance and Habu vs Mongoose Show.
Discovered in 1967, this soaring underground cave has over a million stalactites & pools of water.
Gyokusendo is the biggest of the many caves on Okinawa, its also the second biggest cave system in Japan after Akiyoshido. Formed over 300,000 years, the cave systems total length is about 5 kilometers, but just less than 1 kilometer is open to the public.
The route is along a metal walkway with guardrails and is easy and safe, though with the high humidity and moisture sections can be a little slippy. In the narrowest sections the ceiling of stalactites have been cut off to allow the headroom for people to walk through. Colored lights are used for effect to illuminate the impressive displays of thousands of stalactites and stalagmites as well as the small waterfalls and pools of water.
AloJapan.com