Senaga Island and Umikaji Terrace

photo by Kugel~commonswiki · CC BY-SA 4.0

photo by Naha Mama Pavilionz · CC0

Forty-seven shops on a white hillside, under the Naha flight path.

The terrace steps down towards the sea in white tiers, and the premises sit one below the other along the slope: forty-seven, as counted by the operator. You go there towards evening because it is the west side, and as the sun sets the planes pass over. The island's inhabitants were made to leave in 1944, and it was the Americans who built the two embankment roads that link it to the mainland.

Senaga is a small island about a kilometre and a half round, off Naha, linked by a raised road. Requisitioned by the American military after the war and used as a Navy ammunition depot, it was returned in 1977. The Umikaji commercial terrace opened on 1 August 2015 on the slope of the west coast.

ℹ️ The restaurants are open 11:00–21:00, with last orders at 20:30; the shops and workshops 10:00–20:00. Open all year round. About a quarter of an hour by car from Naha Airport; there is a shuttle to and from the airport. ⚠️ The car park fills up early.

🚉 琉球温泉瀬長島ホテル(ウミカジテラス) · 2 min walk

Sources: umikajiterrace.com · mlit.go.jp · 4travel.jp

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