About 15 minutes by car from Naha Airport. This grocery store is located in “Noren Plaza” in Higawa, Naha City. Various groceries are sold, but the best seller is canned pork, which can be purchased at a lower price than other items. They also sell rare Tsukudani (food boiled in soy sauce), very good bread, and EM milk, which is unique to Okinawa.
Point 1: A hole-in-the-wall food store? What is the location of Tannafu?
Tannafua” is located in ‘Nourren Plaza,’ about 15 minutes by car from Naha Airport.
By bus, you can also get there in 2 minutes on foot by taking Ryukyu Bus No. 113 from Naha Airport Domestic Terminal to Gunjanbashi-mae, transfer to No. 89, and get off at Kainan bus stop.
If you are confident in your legs, you can walk there.
Enter the main entrance on the first floor of Noren Plaza, turn right at the crossroads, and you will find the store on your left.
If it is your first time, the neatly lined up food stores may make you think, “You have to be a food professional to enter here.
Point 2: What kind of canned pork is sold at “Tannafuwa” and what is the price?
At “Tannafuwa”, you can find a variety of canned pork including “SPAM”, which is a typical canned pork.
SPAM” is also inexpensive in Okinawa, so I thought I would buy it at the supermarket! But have you ever been surprised to find that it costs over 500 yen?
Nowadays, the high prices of commodities and the weak yen have pushed up the price of canned pork to a great extent.
However, the price of canned pork has gone up dramatically! Here at “Tannafuwa”, “SPAM” is still priced at 400 yen as of May 2024!
In fact, “Tulip”, which is eaten in Okinawan households even more than “SPAM”, is even less expensive at 320 yen, and “Midland”, which originates from Denmark, is sold for an amazing 300 yen.
This is good news for those of you who love pork eggs and want to make them at home.
Point 3: Introduction of items sold in addition to “Tannafu” pork cans
In addition to canned pork, Tannafu also sells a variety of other foods.
There are also rare items such as Tsukudani (food boiled in soy sauce) and bottles of Wakasagi (smelt) and squid ink.
Soft Wakasagi is a very popular product in southern Itoman!
Squid ink also offers a rich delicacy that cannot be tasted anywhere else when placed on top of rice or tofu!
Although not very Okinawan, the number of food items packed into the limited space is impressive, including “burdock confections” that are full of flavor, “soul kelp” that is cooked together with cod roe and other ingredients, bread with the taste of wheat, EM milk unique to Okinawa, dry snacks, island tofu, and much more!
