If you don't, consider going to the 14th Annual Worldwide Home-Made Food Fair, hosted by Nago City Cultural Exchange & Friendship Committee. This international event is slated for Saturday, March 5th, 1PM-3PM at Nago City's newly built public market building.
This year, nine teams from different countries take part in the food fair. Those teams (Peru, Korea, Philippine, Nepal, Italy, China, Brazil, Argentine, and the North America) will prepare dishes as if those cuisines are brought right out of the home kitchens back in each of those countries.
Many foreign students attending Meio University will also take part in this unique event, bringing with them homely tastes from their own countries, something their mothers would cook when they return to or revisit their homelands.
Visitors to this event will enjoy entertainments performed by the local people and some of the participating teams. You might want to explore this new public market building which houses sweets shops, fresh food and processed food stores.
Visitors need to purchase a 1,000-yen ticket. If you purchase in advance, the food ticket will come with a special feature. To buy a ticket in advance, please call Nago City Cultural Exchange & Friendship Hall at 0980-51-0123.
(Please note that this food ticket is exclusively for the dishes served by the food fair participating teams on this day. Other food products regularly sold in the market building are not include. For your convenience, please bring Japanese currency, because dollar bills or any other currencies are not likely to be accepted.)
Free parking space is available at Nago Fishery Port for this event. So, park your car at the port, and walk toward the downtown area about 300 meters. Use the pedestrian overpath in front of the port to get across Route 58. Continue walking and pass the five-story yellow building with a huge artificial green lizard hanging on the wall. Soon, you'll come to Nago Cross Section and the public market building is on the left side, across from Lindon Bakery.
Click here to see the route from Naha Airport to Nago City Cultural Exchange and Friendship Hall on Google Map.
Standing at a corner, you will see those yellow
signs of Karaoke Manekineko.
A bakery at a corner, across from the public market.
The same bakery from a different angle.
At one of the four corners of Nago Cross Section.
Those yellow buildings are the newly built public market,
where the food fair takes place on March 5th.
Try finding this banner. You'll see a drawing of the earth
on the upper left corner of it, and also the national flags
of the participating international teams.
Miyagi Confectionery & Coffee.
Note that food tickets for the food fair cannot be used
to buy sweets or coffee at the place.
Another confectionery in the public market.
Again, food tickets for the fair cannot be used.
