The ultimate way to have fun! Enjoy bare diving (skin diving) in Onna Village with its charming blue cave!

Enjoy bare diving in Onna Village!

Onna Village is a resort area located on the northwest side of the main island of Okinawa, stretching from northeast to southwest, roughly in the center of the island.It takes about one hour from Naha Airport to drive north on Route 58.

Along the coast overlooking the East China Sea to the west, luxurious resort hotels and condominiums line the beach, and the beautiful ocean and the sunset can be seen from everywhere.

Just a casual dive into the sea will reveal numerous colorful tropical fish and coral reefs.

 

Onna Village Attractions

The most attractive feature of Onna Village is its amazingly clear waters.Onna Village boasts the most beautiful ocean on the main island of Okinawa, just a short distance from the city center.

And Onna Village has a wonderful environment surrounding the sea.

For example, Manzakage, Cape Maeda, and many other spots with spectacular views of the East China Sea.

And the various marine activities that can be enjoyed in the sea.

Furthermore, a theme park where visitors can enjoy the old days called Ryukyu and a market selling Okinawan specialties will keep visitors coming back for more.

All visitors to Onna Village leave with the best memories.

 

One of the most beautiful sea in Okinawa

Onna Village is an hour's drive from the city center, and Onna Village's ocean has some of the clearest and most transparent water in Okinawa.

There are also many spots where you can look down on the beautiful ocean from high above, with Manzamage and Cape Maeda being the most popular places.

Surrounded by both ocean and mountains, visitors can experience the nature of the mountains as well as the ocean, and there are a number of hidden points where visitors can look down on the ocean from the top of cliffs that are more than 20 meters high.It is not only about recognizing the clarity of the ocean from a high vantage point.

Actually entering the sea and seeing the inside of the ocean through underwater glasses is just a series of fresh surprises.

The corals are like jewels in a wide variety of forms.Tropical fish swim freely in vivid colors.

Occasionally, sea turtles and dolphins are encountered.These creatures are not afraid of us entering the sea, but on the contrary, they are curious and approach us.

The sea like a jewel box, such a word fits Onna's sea perfectly.

 

Impressed by the vast nature

The sea in Onna Village has a coastline that stretches for more than 40 km.

And in places, beaches formed of pure white sand are scattered throughout the area.The coastal cliffs have been eroded by sea water and wind and rain over a tremendous period of time, creating an artistic wilderness.

On top of the 20-meter-high cliffs of Manzamage, a scenic spot with oddly shaped rocks resembling an elephant's nose, natural grass spreads out on a plateau formed of limestone.

This is a spot where very rare plants such as Hanakomikanboku, Okinawa violet, Okinawa matsuba-botan, and Japanese honeysuckle grow in clusters.

There is also a parking lot and park at Cape Maeda, from which the view is exceptional.During the off-season, in winter, whales can be spotted far out to sea.

Then, 90 steps down the stairs lead to the Blue Cave, a fantastic sight that everyone recognizes.

The beaches are also excellent, especially Manza Beach, Rizan Sea Park Beach, and Renaissance Beach, where the resort hotel is located. These beaches have hundreds of meters of white sand and were selected as one of only 12 places among the 100 best beaches in Japan recognized by the Ministry of the Environment.

There are other hidden beaches that are not well known by many people, so it might be a good idea to visit them.

 

Very popular spot, Blue Cave

It is no exaggeration to say that almost everyone who comes to Okinawa visits the Blue Cave at least once.

The Gyokusendo, a limestone cave said to be one of the largest in Japan, used to be the most popular, but the Ao no grotto, with its mysterious, if small scale, appearance, has become the most popular spot in recent years.

The caves, which were formed by the erosion of the coastline with sheer cliffs by sea water and wind and rain, have long been a popular diving spot for divers because of the high degree of transparency of the sea.

It has gradually become known to non-divers through SNS, TV, and magazines, and has become the most popular place for tourists in the past few years.

Sunlight shines through the empty cave, reflecting off the walls, the sea surface, and the sand on the ocean floor, creating a mysterious space that cannot be described in words, creating a world of fantasy.

If you try to get there from the parking lot of Cape Maeda, you have to go down about 90 steps, but it gets very crowded during the season because of the many visitors.

In this respect, boat tours have become very convenient, allowing even small children, women, and the elderly to go safely and comfortably.

In high season, a boat with about 20 seats is tucked in front of the cave.

Inside the caves, visitors can enjoy diving and snorkeling in a mysterious blue world.

 

How to enjoy bare diving

Diving is basically diving underwater using only underwater glasses, and is the diving method used by divers to collect turban shells and abalone.

Skin diving, also known as skin diving, is a marine sport that involves diving deeper and longer underwater with equipment such as fins and snorkels to enjoy the underwater world.

However, neither of these uses a cylinder or other underwater breathing apparatus, so the broad term "skin diving" generally includes skin diving elements as well.

 

Attraction of bare diving

One of the attractions of bare diving is that you can enjoy objects such as tropical fish and corals at a closer distance.

While snorkeling involves looking underwater while floating on the surface of the sea and constantly breathing through a snorkel, bare diving allows you to see coral, tropical fish, and other objects at close range by diving toward them at once when you find them.

Or you can swim underwater with swimming sea turtles and other marine animals.

The charm of bare diving is the contact with nature that cannot be enjoyed only by snorkeling.

 

Ultimate Activity

We live our daily lives while unconsciously using our hearing to sense sound.

However, underwater sound does not transmit vibrations in the same way as air, so even if you consciously try to listen, you will not hear the sound.

In other words, by diving into the ocean, you are immersing yourself in an extraordinary world without sound.

And the scene that unfolds there is not an everyday one.The world of colorful tropical fish swimming freely and corals of various types and shapes.I am floating in it.

Looking to the side, cute fishes are right next to you without you knowing it.

In an attempt to see as much of the world as possible, we try to stay deeper and longer in the underwater world without realizing it.It is the ultimate activity that allows anyone to easily enjoy the underwater world.

 

Free and easy to enjoy

No expensive equipment or licenses are required like scuba diving.

You can enjoy the depth and length of the dive as much as you are able and according to your own cardiopulmonary capacity.And the fascinating underwater world will raise our cardiopulmonary capacity without us even knowing it.

It is painful because you have to stop breathing, but the beauty of the sea in Onna Village is so impressive and surprising that you will forget the pain.

 

Feel at one with the ocean.

Swimming in the sea, forgetting everyday life in a soundless world, you may feel as if you have become the sea itself.

Originally, we spend the months before we are born growing up surrounded by water in our mother's womb.In this light, perhaps the sea is a place where we feel as safe as in the womb of our mothers.

And when you see the world spread out there like the Dragon's Palace in the story of Urashima Taro, there is no doubt that you will be attracted to it.

Here is the best scene where you can feel at one with the sea and interact with many living creatures in the great outdoors.

 

Recommended Skin Diving Tours

Here we introduce three easy skin diving tours in Onna Village.

All tours have instructors and rental wetsuits, so you can participate easily, safely, and securely.

 

Blue Cave Snorkel Tour

Snorkeling with life jackets is available.

First, explore the Blue Cave by snorkeling and enjoy the mysterious and fantastic world of sunlight.Enjoy an extraordinary world without sound by appreciating tropical fish and corals up close, and swimming underwater.

No license or heavy equipment like scuba diving is required, so feel free to play in Onna's ocean.

 

summary

How was your introduction to bare diving?

I hope this conveys the appeal of bare diving in the Blue Cave.Away from the boring everyday life, we are in the sea, a mysterious world separated from the sounds of the world.

Moreover, if you experience the mysterious world of the Blue Cave, considered one of the best tourist spots in Okinawa, you will surely forget all the unpleasant things you do everyday and refresh your mind and body.

Thank you for taking the time to read this to the end.