Stays · Destination Guide
Manta-season reef boats and wild Iriomote river country, joined by a weather-sensitive ferry.
Accommodation listings are not available for this destination yet. Use the local planning notes to choose your base.
Fly to Painushima New Ishigaki Airport (ISG) by domestic connections from Naha or major Japanese cities, subject to live airline schedules. Ishigaki town and the remote-islands passenger terminal are a separate road transfer from the airport. Ishigaki has its own dive-tour departures; Iriomote has no routine passenger airport and is reached from Ishigaki Port on a passenger ferry. Choose Uehara in northwest Iriomote or Ohara in the southeast based on the accommodation and tour meeting point. Official airport transport and Anei ferry timetable must be rechecked before departure.
On Ishigaki, airport and city buses serve some routes, but a rental car or tour pickup helps reach Kabira, Shiraho and distant coastlines; shop pickup coverage can be limited. On Iriomote, Uehara and Ohara are different ends of the inhabited coastal road.