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Okinawa Kitanakagusuku Youth Eisa Festival Pre-Party – September 27, 2025

Experience powerful Eisa drum performances, food, and fun at Kitanakagusuku’s Youth Eisa Festival pre-event.

Meet makers, shop handmade, and taste local life at Okinawa’s community-driven market with food, crafts, and live music.

Visit Ōjima, Okinawa’s hidden Cat Island: taste crispy tempura, explore shrines, ride glass-bottom boats, and meet local cats.

Celebrate Okinawa’s biggest Eisa festival with parades, youth performances, fireworks, and beer at the 70th anniversary event.

Traditional Okinawan street festival with Eisa parade, food, and games where locals turn the street into a lively party.

Two days of bullfighting, live music, seaweed contests, and rare watermelon fireworks make Nakijin Festival a must-attend.

Traditional rope battle meets live music and fireworks at Okinawa’s epic Yonabaru Tug-of-War Festival.

A weekend market featuring local food, unique crafts, sweet treats, and live music by the ocean breeze.

A list of exciting local events happening in Okinawa in the second half of 2025.

Traditional boat races, live music, fish-catching games, and local food trucks bring high-energy fun for all ages.