[2024 Latest] Countdown in Okinawa 2024-2025: Experience Okinawa Traditions at Oriental Hotel with Quizzes & Fireworks
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Spend New Year's Eve and New Year's Day enjoying a host of events while staying at a hotel. From December 30th to January 2nd, a variety of events will be held exclusively for guests staying at the hotel!
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Hotel Management Japan Co., Ltd. is a hotel management company that operates 22 hotels in Japan (total number of rooms: 6,438). In addition to its own brands, "Oriental Hotel" and "Hotel Oriental Express," the company also manages and operates a variety of hotels, including "Hilton," "Sheraton," and "Hotel Nikko."
The Oriental Hotel Okinawa Resort & Spa has been reborn in a location well-suited as a base for a journey to experience Yambaru. We welcome you to a comfortable hotel that offers a unique stay experience through a wide range of accommodation plans and a variety of activities that guests can select based on their individual preferences.
Oriental Hotel Okinawa Resort & Spa is a great place for both adults and children to enjoy themselves during the year end and new year holidays. To liven up the New Year's countdown, we will be holding a hotel original live quiz show entitled Year-End Guest Appreciation Festival 2024. You will be able to answer the quiz questions on your smartphone from the comfort of your own room. We will be asking questions about Okinawa that you may think you know the answer to (or maybe not), and you can answer while you are eating, watching, and listening. This year we have the cooperation of Yoshimoto Entertainment Okinawa in providing comedians to make the show fun! After the quiz, there will be a traditional Eisa performance next to the Garden Pool followed by fireworks. It will be a unique countdown experience for our guests. Other events during the holidays include a New Year's Day Lion Dance which parades through the lobby area, pounding rice to make mochi, sanshin live performances, and Ryukyu Traditional Dance performed by the group Mutsu no Hana--a perfect way to begin a new year in Okinawa. And the heated Garden Pool will be open so everyone can enjoy their first swim of the New Year!
Period: Monday, December 30, 2024 to Thursday, January 2, 2025
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Table of Contents
- December 31st (Tuesday) New Year's Eve Event Information
- January 1st (Wed) New Year's Day Event Information
- January 2 (Thursday) Event Information
- Event information for January 1st (Wed) and January 2nd (Thu)
- December 30th (Monday) - January 2nd (Thursday) Event Information
December 31st (Tuesday) New Year's Eve Event Information
A hotel original program
Our original quiz show will be broadcast for one day only. The program is hands-on and allows guests to participate in questions and quiz items from their room using the TV and their cell phones. The program will be introducing Okinawan comedians who will make it fun and entertaining.
Date: Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Time: 21:45-23:15
Venue: Guest Rooms
Fee: Free
Traditional Eisa dance performance by a Youth Association
You can watch Eisa dance, a traditional Okinawan performing art, up close. Enjoy a unique New Year's Eve experience that can only be experienced in Okinawa.
Date: Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Time: 23:35-23:55
Price: Free
Fireworks
Our guests will be able to see the countdown fireworks up close since our hotel sits on the side of the hill. You will be able to watch from your room or from the Garden Pool area.
Date: Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Time: 0:00~
New Year's Eve "Okinawa Soba"
We have prepared soba to be served at the Garden Pool area. We hope you will enjoy eating it while watching the live countdown program and the fireworks.
Date: Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Time: 23:00-0:00
Location: Garden Pool
Price: ¥500 *Limited to 150 meals
January 1st (Wed) New Year's Day Event Information
New Year's Day Mochi Pounding and Free Sake
On New Year's Day, we start with mochi pounding and shouting "Yoisho". We will also be serving free sake, so let's celebrate together.
Date: Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Time: 10:00-11:00
Venue: Lobby
Price: Free
New Year's Day Lion Dance
The lion dance parades around the lobby area offering their good wishes for the new year and offering to ward off evil spirts by "biting" your head! The costumes are made from banana fibers.
Date: Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Time: 10:00-11:00
Venue: Lobby
Price: Free
Ryukyu Dance
Ryukyu Dance is a traditional performing art that has been passed down since the Ryukyu Kingdom era and is deeply rooted in Okinawan culture. Mutsu no Hana, a group of young professionals, will be performing a line-up suitable for the start of a New Year.
Date: Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Time: 19:30 / 20:30, approximately 20 minutes each
Venue: Banquet hall
Price: Free
January 2 (Thursday) Event Information
New Year's Calligraphy
There will be a professional calligrapher to give you advice in writing your word for the new year. Or you can bring your child's winter homework to do on vacation!
Date: Thursday, January 2, 2025
Time: 16:00-19:00
Venue: Lobby
Price: Free
※We will provide calligraphy tools, examples, the paper, etc. If you have a specific example or paper you want to use, you are welcome to bring it with you
.※Please note that there is limited space at one time and you may have to wait.
Event information for January 1st (Wed) and January 2nd (Thu)
First swim of the new year
Our Garden Pool has a heated area making it the perfect place to enjoy your first swim of the new year. Don't miss this opportunity to enjoy an invigorating swim with a spectacular view overlooking the East China Sea.
Date: January 1st (Wed) and January 2nd (Thu), 2025
Time: 10:00-21:00
Venue: Garden Pool
December 30th (Monday) - January 2nd (Thursday) Event Information
Sanshin Live
Sanshin Live includes music ranging from Okinawan folk songs to popular tunes. Enjoy the performance while you are enjoying your evening meal.
Date: Monday, December 30, 2024 - Thursday, January 2, 2025
Time/Venue (20 minutes each):
18:30 @ Buffet & Grill QWACHI
19:15 @Okinawa Dining Jinanbou
20:00 @ Buffet & Grill QWACHI
Bingata Dyeing Craft
Bingata is a traditional Okinawan dyeing technique. Our guests of all ages can enjoy this craft by adding color to their favorite design on a bag.
Date: December 30, 2024 (Monday) - January 2, 2024 (Thursday)
Time: 15:00-21:00 (last admission 20:00)
Price: from 3,000 yen
Oriental Hotel Okinawa Resort & Spa
Oriental Hotel Okinawa Resort & Spa is the first resort hotel of Oriental Hotels & Resorts, and is located in the northern part of Okinawa's main island, at the entrance to Yambaru, an area of lush subtropical forests and blue seas. It is close to the Kyoda Interchange on the Okinawa Expressway, and is 60 minutes from the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium and 20 minutes from Manzamo in Onna Village, making it an ideal hotel for active tourism in Okinawa, with easy access to not only the northern area but also the central and southern areas.
All 361 rooms have ocean views and are spacious at over 44 m2. In the spring of 2024, the transformation of 288 rooms was completed creating spaces well-suited as a base for travelers to experience Yambaru. In keeping with the hotel’s concept of LOVE OKINAWA DISCOVER YAMBARU, ambient music is played in the lobby area which is bathed in sunlight filtering through the trees and is generously decorated with plants native to the Yambaru forest. You may feel the freedom that comes as if you are standing in a space completely separated from your everyday life.
In addition to the Amenity Base Arin Krin where you can choose your own amenities, we also have a Lobby Lounge that is available to all guests and a Club Lounge exclusively for club room guests to provide a more satisfying stay. In addition, we have a full range of facilities and services, including restaurants that boast menu items using luxurious ingredients from Okinawa, a banquet hall, and a chapel.
Hotel Management Japan Co., Ltd. is a hotel management company that operates 22 hotels in Japan (total number of rooms: 6,438). In addition to its own brands, "Oriental Hotel" and "Hotel Oriental Express," the company also manages and operates a variety of hotels, including "Hilton," "Sheraton," and "Hotel Nikko."
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