Itoman is a fading fishing port on Okinawa’s main Island, Naha. The Itoman region has a bitter past as the final front in the Battle of Okinawa during WWII and a site of a mass suicide at the end of the battle. The sleepy port we strolled through one July afternoon was barely populated and smelled of sun on stone . Oddly, it reminded me a bit of Stone Town in Zanzibar. Sun and typhoon weathered, the streets felt worn, salty and full of an unusual atmosphere that lingers somewhere between melancholy and determination.
The above stroll was on and around Tomoe-dori towards the Itoman fishing port.