About an hour and a half drive from Naha Airport, near Saiba Utaki in Nanjo City, there is a petit hotel that looks like Morocco and is limited to five guests per day. It is very photogenic and must be Instagrammed. Here we introduce “Riyadh Lamp,” whose exterior and interior are too beautiful to be true!
Point 1: Feel Morocco at Riad Lamps Okinawa! Everything is lovely at the inn.
An hour and a half drive from Naha Airport. After driving through lush green sugarcane fields, you will see a white house on top of a small hill.
It is not a familiar Okinawan house, but a Moroccan-style petit hotel called “Riad Lamp.
Plants in large unglazed pots, the carved wooden door. I was already impressed by the entrance.
As you enter through the porch, you will find a lobby decorated with Moroccan lamps! The inn has custom-made not only the lamps but also the fittings and tiles from Morocco, and they have paid close attention to every detail of the decoration.
The rooms are also decorated in the local style with Moroccan-style mud walls. It looks as if it came out of an interior design magazine like “Elle Deco! The flower-patterned latticework on the windows stirs up the exotic atmosphere. The floral latticework on the windows stirs up an exotic atmosphere, and describing the scene as “Instagram-worthy” seems a bit clichéd.
The bathroom is unique in that it uses a traditional Moroccan technique called Tadelakt, a type of plaster made from lime. After the plaster is applied, it is smoothed with a wooden spatula and polished with a stone. This gives the plaster a smooth and silky feel to the skin. Bathing in such a bathroom is sure to bring you exotic dreams!
The loungewear is not the same as that often worn during stomach checkups, but comfortable Moroccan-style relaxing wear made of Azumino cotton, which makes you happy.
There are two rooms, one twin and one double, and the largest top floor. During the day, you will be at one with nature in a room with terra cotta and pale yellow clay walls lit by the intense sun, and at night you will quietly enjoy the stars in the soft swaying light of the Moroccan lamps. There is nothing “Okinawan” about it.
Point 2: The infinity pool is amazing, integrated with the horizon of the Riyadh ramp!
The Riyadh Lamp has an infinity pool. It is very close to the dining room, so it takes courage to enter when there are people around, but the view of the horizon beyond the infinity pool is amazing!
When you enter the pool, you can’t help but stare at the horizon.
The infinity pool is not only designed to be parallel to the horizon, but also to allow ocean breezes to flow through the building and into the forest behind it.
So just by staying here, guests can feel nature and become one with it. In an infinity pool like this, rather than splashing around, the right thing to do is to quietly gaze at the horizon from inside the pool or lounge by the poolside!
Point 3: The food prepared by the wife of the owner of Riyadh Lamp is amazing!
Riyado-Ramp only offers a breakfast plan if you book through reservation sites such as Jaran, but there is a half-board plan available if you book through the website.
Breakfast is prepared by the wife, and is again a breakfast of colorful Okinawan vegetables in lovely dishes, with plenty of herbs and spices. A fried egg in a tagine pot also makes an appearance. You can tell that they pay attention to detail even in the food.
The Riyadh Lamp has only been in business for two years. I heard that the inn also offers oil treatments using organic argan oil, which I would like to try during my stay if possible!
