Konnichiwa from Okinawa! :snorkel:

[tikitat]

Looking for more great places to dive in the Pacific.

 

[ROXANNE]

Welcome to ScubaBoard!
Try this forum for the areas your interested in diving. Have fun!
Regional Travel and Dive Clubs - ScubaBoard

 

[Rhone Man]

Welcome - you are very blessed with travel connections for Pacific diving. If I lived in Japan, I am sure I would visit Truk Lagoon and Palau about twice a year!

 

[johnasan74]

Hello, have a looking at Amami Oshima, just north of Okinawa, and much smaller so easier to get about, Divers Cove Amami is a English run dive shop that offers boat and beach diving, plus can they arrange your accommodation and provide free airport transfers. Diving in Amami is awesome lots of fish life and lots of coral the dive sites are not over dived as Amami gets a fraction of tourists that the bigger island gets. JAL fly’s to Amami from most airports (including from Okinawa) within Japan and Skymark airlines offers competitive budget flights from Kagoshima to Amami, check out scubajapan.com for more info.
Amami's whale season is between February to April, turtles come ashore to lay eggs around June and they hatch about 2 months later and dolphins are buzzing around most of the time!

 

[japan-diver]

If you are based out of Okinawa - make sure you hit the Keramas, Tonaki, Kume and of course all the great sites on the main island as well. There is enough here to keep you busy for quite awhile. We also have Yonaguni, Iriomote and other islands to visit just a short flight away.
While here as suggested I would also look at Palau and Chuuk as must see places.

 

[ROXANNE]

@ johnasan74
Very nice pics! Thanks for sharing!