Okinawa World, also known as the Culture Kingdom Gyokusendo, is a touristy theme park about Okinawan culture. The park's main attractions are the Gyokusendo Cave, a crafts village and a snake museum.
Traditional crafts village
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Gyokusendo Cave
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With a total length of five kilometers, Gyokusendo Cave is the longest of the many caves in the south of Okinawa Island, and Japan's second longest. 850 meters of the cave are open to the public and feature spectacular stalactites and stalagmites.
The so called Kingdom Village is a nice replica of a traditional Ryukyu village with workshops introducing the various traditional Okinawan crafts, such as weaving, dyeing, paper making, pottery, sugar cone processing, the making of music instruments, brewing and the more recently introduced glass blowing.
Visitors can gain hand-on experiences at many workshops and have ample of opportunities to purchase the local products at numerous souvenir shops. Of course, there is also a restaurant specialized in Okinawan cuisine.
The Habu Park, named after the infamous, poisonous, local Habu snake, consists of a snake museum, a small, run down zoological garden and a snake show.
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