Welcome to Gateway to Okinawa.
Gateway to Okinawa is service based company that wants to help people from around the world that are visiting Okinawa to maximize their trip.
We provide full services for budo (martial arts) sports, leisure activities, arts, crafts, & culture, and accommodation in Okinawa, the beautiful island paradise in southern Japan.
For more comprehensive information on our services just use our contact form.
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“I wanna go for Kite surfing, Scuba, and catch a swordfish, haha!”
You’re in!
Let`s face facts, Okinawa is most likely best known for karate. However, getting into a dojo in Okinawa can be a problem. Given the language and cultural barriers. We at Gateway to Okinawa can help. Through the company`s founders and their contacts on Okinawa, we can serve to introduce you to any budo teacher on the island. We can help you learn the material you are interested in such as kata, application, and kobudo.
No more coming to Okinawa just to do basics and have your hand moved 2cm to the left. We can also help with the language barrier to make you get the most of your training.
“I’m just a mere unworthy blue belt. How will any master accept me as a student?”
The sooner you start, the longer you have time and the better you get. And even world champions sometimes start new things… as a white belt!
And above all: You deserve it!
So read through our website and finally go ahead and submit the contact form. Tell us your expectations.
Don’t waste your precious time. Listen what this guy has to say:
“I remember this guy some years ago, he was living in a guest-house near Kokusai doori, right in the heart of Naha. He told me he was there for one week and had been looking for a Karate dojo, but couldn’t find one. He also asked people on the street. Nope! So next day I took him to a dojo, just 5 minutes walk in a side street, and another day later he lived and trained in the dojo of a 10th degree black belt.” Andi, 44
We’ll keep you posted on our shuttle service, guided tours, training with cutting-edge Karate and Kobudo masters, snorkel and scuba tours, Beach Bonfire BBQ (or the BBBBQ if you prefer) and much more. You’ll find our updates under the News & Stories menu.
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With our furnished apartment accommodations right in the very heart of Naha City as your comfortable home-base, or special Hotel and Hostel offers with flexible rates to fit your budget.
Browse our website. There’s a whole new world waiting for you, unlocked for the first time for everyone around the world with Gateway to Okinawa.
Another story? Here we go:
“Two guys came to Okinawa for two weeks, settled in a guest-house (Japanese language only) and looked for training. They were students of a famous and high degree western master, who himself had never been to Okinawa nor knew anyone. So they hung around their guest-house, surfed the Internet, drank a Latte Macciato at Starbucks and another and another.
They even found a dojo. So they watched training. From outside.
In their two weeks on Okinawa they didn’t train even one single time in an Okinawan Karate dojo. Even though that was what they came here for.” Paul, 53
Don’t waste time and money. Instead browse our website and finally go ahead and submit the contact form. Tell us your expectations.
Anything else you can think of? Let us know.
Remember: We’re talking Okinawa. We’re talking Gateway to Okinawa.
