ISLAND GUIDE
SOUTH Southern Okinawa is home to Naha–the largest (and capital) city of Okinawa. Urasoe City, directly to the north is also a densely populated area that hosts Camp Kinser. Southern Okinawa features many opportunities for shopping, dining and entertainment as well as beautiful coastlines, rustic fishing villages, acres and acres of farmlands, parks dedicated to those that lost their lives during World War II and much, much more.
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Camp Kinser Located along the East China Sea coast, Camp Kinser is primarily a logistics base for MCIPAC Okinawa. Home to the 3D Marine Logistics Group, the camp has living facilities for military members and their families and provides many qualityof-life-enhancing facilities such as two banks, an education center and library as well as a commissary, Exchange (with a food court) and Express. Camp Kinser also has a child development center (The Yuimaru Center), a youth and a teen center as well as Kinser Elementary School. For fitness and recreation, Camp Kinser has a full-featured fitness center with free weights, strength machines, an outdoor functional fitness container/area, free group fitness classes, cardiovascular training equipment such as treadmills and stationary bikes, an indoor HITT room and more. The facility is also equipped with basketball, volleyball and racquetball courts and multi-purpose fields for organized sports. Kinser is also equipped with a 50-meter pool, a skate park, a
Tsunami Scuba center and a Typhoon Motors auto skills center. For dining on island, head to the Kinser Surfside. The Surfside was constructed in 1991 and is one of the Marine Corps’ first facilities that combined officers’, staff NCO and enlisted clubs into one facility. Alongside its Sunday Breakfast Buffet, the Surfside also offers a variety of “fast-casual” dining facilities including Red Barn (American comfort foods), Bulldogs Burgers (beef burgers with homemade buns) and a Wheatfields Express. This facility also contains rank-specific lounges and a ballroom with a capacity of up to 400 seated and 600 standing patrons. An interactive map of Camp Kinser, complete with hours of operation and phone numbers, is available at mcccokinawa.com/maps. OKINAWA GUIDE 2018–2019 | 175