Cappadocia - Okinawa Main Island
Cappadocia on Okinawa Main Island is a unique dive. We drop into a large, cavernous chamber with multiple swim-throughs and pockets of light filtering down from above. The rock formations are impressive, giving the site its name, and you'll often find schooling fish hanging out in the darker areas. It's a good pick for intermediate divers looking for something a bit different from a standard reef dive.
- Location
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan, East Asia
- Coordinates
- 26.334500, 128.006300
- Maximum Depth
- 21m
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
Marine Protected Area: 沖縄海岸
Nearby Dive Sites in Okinawa Main Island
- Aosango - 14m
- Coral 1 - 18m (reef)
- Cross Line - 21m (wreck)
- Dream Hole - 27m (cave)
- Ginowan Marine Center - 10m
- Gorilla Chop - 10m (reef)
- Hamahiga Beach - 4m
- Inan South - 16m
- Ishikiri - 18m
- Kin Red Beach - 8m
- Kohri Zampa - 24m (reef)
- Kumanomi Paradise - 16m (reef)
- Legare-J Underwater Studio
- Maeda Point - 5-25m (cave)
- Makiminato - 11m
Nearest Dive Centres to Cappadocia
- Alpha Dive Okinawa
- Ar Yo Divin
- BUBBLE ADDICT OKINAWA - SSI
- BxB
- CAVE LOVER - CMAS/STARS, SDI, RAZOR (sidemount system)
- CFD KANNA THALASSA
Marine Life in Okinawa Main Island
Home to 275 recorded species including 159 reef fish, 65 hard corals, 16 sea snails & nudibranchs, 9 sea cucumbers, 5 other, 5 crabs & lobsters.
Notable Species
- Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas)
- Staghorn coral (Acropora tenuis) - Hard Corals
- Large meandroid brain coral (Oulophyllia crispa) - Hard Corals
- Smooth cauliflower coral (Stylophora pistillata) - Hard Corals
- Staghorn coral (Acropora hyacinthus) - Hard Corals
- Jumping Blenny (Alticus saliens) - Reef Fish
- Dorado (Coryphaena hippurus) - Reef Fish
- Pinkfish (Holothuria edulis) - Sea Cucumbers
- Staghorn coral (Acropora nasuta) - Hard Corals
- Branch coral (Acropora florida) - Hard Corals
- Fluorescence grass coral (Galaxea fascicularis) - Hard Corals
- Honeycomb coral (Favites abdita) - Hard Corals
- Common lionfish (Pterois volitans) - Reef Fish
- Stony coral (Porites cylindrica) - Hard Corals
- Burrowing urchin (Echinometra mathaei) - Sea Urchins
- Black-lined Blenny (Istiblennius lineatus) - Reef Fish
- Savigny's Brittle Star (Ophiactis savignyi)
- Staghorn coral (Acropora valida) - Hard Corals
- Stony coral (Porites lutea) - Hard Corals
- guppy (Poecilia reticulata) - Reef Fish