Royal Hotel Okinawa 中城高原ホテル

There is nothing more rewarding than finding an abandoned hotel in the middle of the mountains.

At the time my friend and I found it we did not know the back story of the Nakagusuku Hotel. So after returning home I did some research and found out that the hotel was financed by a rich Japanese business man and had been built over some haunted caves. After several of the construction workers died in accidents during its construction, the project was stopped. Soon after that the businessman ended up in an insane asylum.

The hotel, which was never completed, was intended to have a zoo inside of it as well. The buildings very odd floor plan and size make it a wild and rather scary place to explore. Though Okinawans claim the building is haunted to this day, we did not encounter anything strange.

Nakagusuku, Okinawa

Somehow

The road of life recently led me through an Okinawan themed hostess bar. There I danced with 70 year-old hostess and drank Awamori while listening to and watching excellent traditional Okinawan entertainment.

Funny Face

Philippines Sea, Okinawa

The Fishes Sky

Part of the fun of buying something new for me is seeing how it works. Wondering what the surface tension of the water looked like from inside the water, my camera and I had some fun.

Found Nemo

A small Clown Fish in a Sea Anemone near Camp Hansen, Okinawa.

Kin-nisshu-do

The entrance to the cave

The racks where bottles of Awamori were aged.

These pictures were taken at Kin-nisshu-do temple/ Awamori distillery in Kin Town, Okinawa. The fun thing about sticking a large amount of hard liquor underground is that the air slowly begins to have an alcohol percentage to it. This fact made my time down in the cave fun, but made coming back up the steep flight of stairs out of the cave rather dangerous.