Ocean Expo Park Beach

Ocean Expo Park Beach in Okinawa is really three separate coves built in the 1970s alongside the 1975 International Ocean Expo, each facing a different angle of the same lagoon. This guide follows Nagame no Hama, the viewing beach, where sea turtles haul out at night to dig nests in coral sand, and the staff and volunteers who protect the clutches until hatchlings are walked down to the sea by hand. It traces what makes this stretch of reef lagoon rare enough for a turtle to keep choosing it over the open ocean beyond the reef.