It is about 35 minutes by car from Naha Airport. This petit hotel is located in Miyagi, Chatan-cho, central Okinawa main island. Even though it is called Chatan Town, it is a quiet area with a 7-minute drive to American Village. Since Kadena Air Base is nearby, there are many foreigners and you can feel the exotic atmosphere and experience the real Okinawa, not just a tourist spot.
Point 1: 35 minutes from Naha Airport via a single road! What is the location of Hotel Sunset Terrace?
Hotel Sunset Terrace is a petit hotel located in Miyagi, Chatan-cho, central Okinawa. It is located near Kadena Air Base, and a short drive north is Yomitan Village. A 7-minute drive to the south is American Village, so you will have no trouble finding a meal.
There are many unique restaurants in the immediate vicinity of the hotel as well, so you will have a hard time deciding where to eat.
From Naha Airport, it takes about 35 minutes by car via Route 58. By bus, you can take Ryukyu Bus No. 120 and get off at “Kuki-tai Iriguchi” (Air Force Entrance), and then you can reach the hotel in 14 minutes on foot without changing buses.
The chalk-white petit hotel stands overhung by palm trees. The emerald-green ocean is right next to the hotel, giving the place a very open feeling.
Even if you don’t go as far as the American Village, this area is dotted with similar petit hotels, authentic hamburger stores, and trendy cafes, giving you the illusion of being lost in a foreign land.
Perhaps because of the proximity of the Kadena Air Base, most of the people walking around here are foreigners. You can feel as if you are enjoying a trip to a foreign country without even leaving Okinawa.
Point 2: Not luxurious but functional! The rooms of “Hotel Sunset Terrace”!
Hotel Sunset Terrace” is surrounded by a large park and the ocean in front of it. The white-washed entrance area lined with palm trees looks like the West Coast of the United States.
Hotel Sunset Terrace has three types of rooms: Theater Queen, Theater Twin, and Theater Double.
The “Theater” name comes from the 75-inch Smart TV installed in every room, and the “Theater Double” has an ocean view, private sauna, and massage chair in the room.
All rooms are 30 square meters, and all beds are over 120 centimeters wide. All rooms are 30 square meters, and all beds are 120 centimeters wide or more, with wide soaking tubs, mini-kitchens, washer/dryers, refrigerators, microwaves, and even robot vacuum cleaners.
Bath amenities are minimal and slippers are provided, but please bring your clothes as there is no room for clothes.
What’s more, at inexpensive times of the year and on inexpensive sites, even the most luxurious “theater double” can be had for less than 10,000 yen for two people.
Point 3: Famous restaurants everywhere! Gourmet Guide around “Hotel Sunset Terrace
Photo: Cheeseburger at Gordy’s
Hotel Sunset Terrace” is located in Miyagi, on the north side of the American Village in Chatan Town.
The Miyagi Beach near the hotel is actually a surfing spot, where professional surfers practice in secret and foreign surfers walk around with their boards over their heads, making it a truly exotic place to enjoy surfing.
Although the hotel does not provide meals, there are many restaurants in the vicinity, including “Gordies,” one of the top five hamburger restaurants in Okinawa, “Morning Doors Cafe,” which serves Hawaiian cuisine, and “Coffee Casa,” which is always full of foreign customers. Coffee Casa,” which is always full of foreign customers, and many other authentic restaurants that can be said to cater to foreigners!
There is also “Hamaya,” a very famous Okinawa soba restaurant, and “Emerald Oceanside,” a steak restaurant, where you can have an authentic steak at a reasonable price.
With all of these restaurants within a 10-minute walking distance, it is a fun place to visit.
This may be an area where you can feel the real Okinawa in the true sense of the word, which is not often mentioned in guidebooks!
