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Pretty great house to stay in north Okinawa

✓ Pretty great house to stay in north Okinawa. It is not feasible to visit Naha City when staying here. And the location seems desolate at first. But with the minimum of exploring it becomes clear that excellent snorkelling is 15 minutes away on foot, the Churami Aquarium and its huge park is just up the hill, there is a convenience store 10 minutes away. 3 grocery stores 20 minutes away by bus. A bunch of decent restaurants hidden away on the Bise footpaths. It'd be better to have a car but you can make do without one. The house is stocked with kitchen and cleaning supplies, and has a huge kitchen at that. Seems as if it was a former restaurant. The host is very responsive to any questions. And the Okinawa Airport Shuttle Bus basically stops right outside the door, you just have to make the driver go to the very last stop, not the Motuobo Orion Hotel stop, the one after it. But we had a good time here, home BBQs and such.

✗ Explained above, there is no grocery store in Bise, only in Motuobo (20 mins away), but there's 3 there + a butcher + other shops. It's doable with a car or by bus which comes every 45 minutes.