Right in the middle of Naha is Naminoue Beach, and on a small cliff above the beach are Naminoue-gu Shrine and Gokoku-ji Temple. We walked by the beach and shrine after getting to Naha from Yomitan but didn’t actually visit them until a couple of days later when we took a trip to the shrine in the early afternoon, had lunch, and then went back to go to the beach
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The floating torii gate of Itsukushima shrine on Miyajima, an island near Hiroshima on the Inland Sea of Japan. The shrine itself is breathtakingly beautiful, surrounded by the waters at high tide. At low tide you can approach the torii more closely, and the exposed sands teem with marine life. The whole island is definitely worth exploring, including the cable car ascent through ancient forest to the summit of Misen mountain