SHIMA TANJIOUBI

Is this Japan?! But where's all the concrete? Enjoying the ingenious concept of getting cheap tickets for you and your friends when celebrating birthday, a bunch of nine friends went to the tropical paradise of Yaeyama Jima, the southern part of Okinawa for five days. Except for a few not so friendly encounters with a sea snake (and the locals in the karaoke testing our vibrato on "Shima Uta"), we enjoyed the quiet atmosphere on empty beaches, the local goya and potato icecream and the jungle. And best of all: no architecture miles ahead!