Thanks. I feel a little more knowledgeable today than last week. I found a site with lots of you tubes showing beautiful beaches and I spent some time at Rakuten looking at hotels. The prices are pretty scary - our dollar is worthless there - but reading the details gave me considerable information about bus services from the airport and local depots. I just knew there had to be a way to get around without a car. It will be interesting to see the package tour set. I just went to Honolulu for the first time and was amused to see the fried bliss expressions of the Japanese tourists as they wandered about Waikiki looking like a pack of wealthy hippies. Anorexic hippies at that . . .we Americans are so fat. I've run across several mentions of naturalistic religious rites on some uninhabited islands and got to add some sea snakes to my snake phobia. Any more comments about the food? I used to watch a soap opera set in Okinawa called Churasan. They were always talking about the delicious food.