Miyako Islands Trips & Tours

From Okinawa Main Island, set your compass south and you’ll end up on the golden shores of Miyako Island. Actually a cluster of islands linked by increasingly longer bridges (including the 3,540-metre-long Irabu Bridge), Miyako boasts some of the loveliest beaches in Asia (really!) with bleached-white sands and, importantly, not another soul in sight. And if you hear talk of 17END, it’s the local nickname for one of the most photogenic stretches on the island. The waters here are a sensational blue thanks to the almost total lack of rivers and snorkelling is possible right from the shore, where sea turtles are often spotted. Also on the coastline is Higashi-Hennazaki, a narrow cape with the Pacific on one side and the East China Sea on the other, and, if you can drag yourself away from the water, the interior is lush with row upon row of sugar cane fields. In a place like this, your cares seem to just drift away...