Five kilometres of cave, but only 890 metres can be walked: the rest stays dark.
Three hundred thousand years of water dissolving the limestone have carved out one of the longest caves in Japan: about five kilometres, of which less than a fifth (890 metres) is equipped for visitors, among stalactites and an underground pool called ‘the blue spring’ (青の泉). The water that seeps from the rock is now also bottled for a local beer, Okinawa Sango Beer.
The cave is the heart of the Okinawa World theme park, which has built around it a reconstructed Ryukyu-style village, eisā shows (a traditional drum dance) and an exhibition of habu snakes.
ℹ️ Open 9:00–17:30, last entry 16:00. Park ticket (includes cave, village and shows): adults 2,000 yen, children (aged 4–14) 1,000 yen. Part of the cave is not wheelchair accessible.
🚉 Gyokusendo Mae · 3 min walk
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