Approximately 17 minutes by car from Naha Airport. It is an Okinawan buffet restaurant located in Tomigushiro City. Okinawan cuisine makes you want to eat this and that, but unfortunately, your stomach capacity is limited and the amount of food you can eat at one time is limited. With a buffet, you can eat as much as you like and as many kinds of food as you like, which solves the problem!
Point 1: What is the location and accessibility of “Okinawa Vegetable Garden Buffet Karakara”?
Okinawa Vegetable Garden Buffet Karakara” can be reached from Naha Airport via Route 331 in just 17 minutes.
The “Umikaji Liner” bus service is also available from the airport and Kokusai-dori Avenue, and is cheaper than taking a cab (300 yen from the airport), making it convenient to access.
I thought it would be in the “Okinawa Outlet Mall Ashibinaa,” but it is an independent store in an old Okinawan house style.
In the same area, there are many popular commercial facilities such as “Okinawa Outlet Mall Ashibinae” where “Okinawa Vegetable Garden Buffet Karakara” is located, “EAS Okinawa Toyosaki”, “DMM Kariyushi Aquarium”, and so on.
In addition, a 13-minute drive away is the beautiful 700-meter-long man-made beach “Orion ECO Chura SUN Beach”, where you can go and see the emerald green sea.
Point 2: What are the buffet contents and prices of “Okinawa Vegetable Garden Buffet Karakara”?
Let us introduce the menu of “Okinawa Vegetable Garden Buffet Karakara”.
The menu can be roughly divided into “Monthly Recommendations,” “Caracara Vegetable Garden,” “Side Dishes, Fried Food, Noodles,” “Kamado DE Gohan,” and “Desserts and Drinks.
The recommended menu seems to change every month.
The menu includes the standard dishes such as bitter melon stir-fry, Okinawan soba noodles, chumi soup, carrot shiriri, kelp irichi, etc., as well as stir-fried papaya with salt sauce, summer vegetable curry doria, rafte bitter melon fried rice, seafood ceviche, etc. Many dishes are a little more stylish than the typical Okinawan dishes, so you can even aim for an Insta-evidence! It’s also a great place for Instagram!
The restaurant also seems to put a lot of emphasis on salads, with an array of fresh vegetables grown in the prefecture and a large number of dressings.
I am also impressed by the color-coded display of the vegetables’ nutrients: “red for body-building,” “yellow for energy,” and “green for physical conditioning.
The price is reasonable, 1,848 yen (including tax) for adults for lunch (11:00-17:00) with 80 varieties!
It is also nice to know that the prices are detailed and set up in such a way that seniors (65 and older, 1,650 yen), elementary school students (880 yen), 4 to 6 year olds (550 yen), and children under 3 years old (free) are charged separately. The price may have gone up a bit since before, but it is still the most cost-effective!
Point 3: There is more! The best value points of “Okinawa Vegetable Garden Buffet Karakara”!
Okinawa Vegetable Garden Buffet Karakara” still has more special points to offer.
For a separate fee of 3,630 yen (tax included), you can drink as much alcohol as you like during the 120 minutes.
This includes all-you-can-drink Orion Draft, WATTA, Ryukyu Highball, Asahi Super Dry, and Awamori (Ryusen 20%).
There are also other items on the menu that are not all-you-can-drink, such as Habuball, Seekwasa Sour, Ryusen Blue (30°), Ryusen 3-Year Old Sake (43°), and other rare items, so be sure to try them.
In addition, for one coin you can take out the daily fried rice bento, black vinegar bento, curry bento (with fried chicken +50 yen), or salad udon.
The 750 yen “stuffed bento” is a bento that allows you to stuff yourself with your favorite side dishes from the buffet, and is recommended for those who cannot eat as much as the buffet, but still want to eat what they like.
