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Kitesurfing in Okinawa Prefecture
2 spots · 2 destinations · 4 schools
Okinawa's two spots split hard by difficulty.
Yonaha Maehama on Miyakojima looks like an easy lagoon but runs deep and choppy with fast current, better suited to hydrofoil riders than beginners, while Kaichu Doro/Oasis Hama on the Katsuren causeway is the region's genuine beginner ground — shallow flats, though sharp coral means helmets and foot protection.
Okinawa Prefecture holds 2 kitesurf spots in our atlas, grouped into 2 destinations. Something is rideable here in every month of the year. 1 of them suits beginners. 4 schools operate in the region.
When you may ride
the rules these spots carry, with the year on each
Katsuren PeninsulaOkinawa (Uruma City)20262026 zoning splits the causeway. Kaichu Doro Kite Beach / Oasis Hama is the kite and wing area, and windsurfing is not allowed there.
Miyakojima (Maehama Beach)Miyakojima2025has a date window2025 onward: Miyakojima City designates Yonaha Maehama and Toguchinohama as personal-watercraft accident-prevention priority areas from 1 April to 30 November each year.
Each block is the opening of the record's own rule, kept in its own words. Where two postings do not line up, both are kept and neither is picked for you.
The winds here
what the spot records call the wind, and the knots they quote
No wind is named across this region
Fewer than two of its spots give the wind a local name. Each spot page carries its own directions and knots.
Destinations in Okinawa Prefecture
All spots in Okinawa Prefecture
Regions come from OpenStreetMap administrative boundaries; each spot page carries the record behind it. This list runs A to Z, and every spot here is filed tier 2.
Last updated September 2026