2 Best Restaurants in Northern Okinawa, Okinawa

Perched on the Hope Hills area of Nakijin, Cafe Kokuu serves delicious Japanese and Okinawan cuisine in an elegant wooden building with stunning views of the countryside and ocean. All dishes are created with organic wild and farm-grown vegetables from the Yambaru region. Food is served only between 11:30 am and 4 pm.

Warm scones with homemade jams and lashings of clotted cream, cucumber sandwiches, and quiches with buttery crusts—to find these British culinary icons hidden in the subtropical forest of northern Okinawa would seem almost impossible, until you find out that the tea shop's chef Maki once worked at London's Savoy restaurant. On her return to Japan, she brought her very particular set of skills to the town of Motobu, and since then local residents have been able to take afternoon tea like Her Majesty the Queen.