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7th Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival 2022

Taikai 2022 Travel Agent in Honolulu, HI

Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival is a major event that is uniquely Okinawan and unlike any festival in any other prefectures of Japan, in which people from all over the world with Okinawan roots and identities gather in the motherland of Okinawa. The festival is held in Okinawa every five years.

7th World Uchinanchu Festival is planned to be in October 2022

Okinawa Governor Tamaki encouraged world-wide participation and support: “the festival unites uchinanchus (Okinawans) globally, and provides an opportunity to demonstrate the Okinawan chimugukuru (spirit) to the world.

The World Uchinanchu Festival first launched in 1990 and has successfully followed up with six festivals. The 6th World Uchinanchu Festival attracted a record 7,300 attendees.

Nadine Shimabukuro has been successfully going to all 6 Uchinanchu Festivals.

In 2016, N & K Travel took over 420 people to Okinawa with 1 chartered flight (non stop to Okinawa), Japan Airlines, & All Nippon Airways. One of our assistants from Hawaii, went to Los Angeles to escort the people from Los Angeles, California to Okinawa and back.

Updates as of 10/20/2022

Signups for the 7th Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival are closed
If you missed our informational meeting on August 30th or August 31st and would like the recordings for those meetings, please email tomomi-nandktravel@hawaiiantel.biz.
If you have ordered the optional Hawaii United Okinawa Association (H.U.O.A.) dri-fit polo shirts, the polo shirts are being picked up on Friday, October 21, 2022. Please email Tomomi if you would like to pick-up prior to departure.
We will no longer need e-visas or visas to travel to Japan, but everyone will need to download the MySOS app. Please see below for instructions and manual for assistance.
Prior to departure, download the MySOS app to your smart phone (Apple or Android) or tablet. More information provided from this website: Fast Track (mhlw.go.jp)
For those of you who do not have a smart phone or tablet, please go to this website: https://mysos.allm-team.net/fasttrack/signup/
Manual for the MySOS app.
All Itineraries are posted with addresses of hotels for MySOS app. If you are not able to view the itineraries on your phone, please try to access via a computer.
LAX Group, please look at the revised itinerary. There is a change on your return from Okinawa to LAX.