All the world is beautiful, everywhere you go, but some places are even more for many reasons,
- a question of spots and
- a question of environmental balance,
Okinawa, Yaeyama and in particular Ishigakijima deserve it on my perception.
The full text of the bell's inscription, in the original ''[[kanbun]]'' and having been converted to Japanese. (Archaeology of the Ryukyu islands / Richard J. Person)

I don´t want to substitute wikitravel, any encyclopedia or any specialized touristic guide, I will report some features that I have considered interesting while reading over a few books in the helpful library of Ishigaki mixed with the most important topics and showing my pictures. It is not an exhaustive work just a fast look.
On my first trip to Okinawa in the sad February of 2011 I reported what I read then about these subtropical islands of Micronesia, 160 of whom 47 uninhabited.
Now I read about five groups of principal islands and some subgroupes, totalizing 105 and only 24 uninhabited.

Let´s talk now about Yaeyama islands one of this subgroups of islands, becoming part of Sakishima islands sharing this denomination with Miyako archipelage -I visited and reported on 2013- , both in Okinawa prefecture, then Japan.
And as it has been my base during one month around here let´s see some pictures from Ishigaki, the official head of Yaeyama islands.
"20 years old celebration"