Caching in Okinawa, Japan

[Hitz]

New to Geocaching, and am working to find a map set for my Garmin Legend HCx. Any advice or mapping know how covering the this region would be greatly appreciated.

[+Chrysalides]

I can't remember where I saw this, so I can't give credit where it is due, sorry. And I haven't tried it myself either. Scroll down for Japan.

 

http://rwsmaps.griffel.se/

 

Edit : LOL I just realized where I got that from - your thread in the Getting Started forum! Sorry, hope someone else will be able to help.

Edited January 28, 2009 by Chrysalides

[+coggins]

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...t&p=3807179

[+tlbeers]

I'm in Okinawa and can hook you up with a map. Just email me me.

[+SLAPSH0T]

Hello all. I recently moved to Okinawa (Kadena AB) and need some advice on what GPS unit to buy. I currently use a Magellan Explorist 210 and have found a few caches so far (one actually belonged tlbeers ), but without seeing roads it's difficult to get within walking distance. A little background on me: I've been caching for about 8 months. In the states, I would plug the coords into my TomTom and use that to get close to the cache and find parking. Then I would use my Magellan on foot to find the cache. Here on Okinawa my TomTom is useless, so getting close enough to park & walk to the cache is where I'm having problems. What do you guys do here in Okinawa to find caches?? What GPS unit are you using and where did you find maps of Japan? I'd like to get a new GPS unit.....I was looking at the Garmin 60CSx. Any thoughts/suggestions?? Are there any Okinawa Geocaching groups? Thanks in advance!

[+EARTHQUAKE5683]

Slapshot,

 

There aren't any "groups" per say, just a bunch of us that get together every now and again and cache. Sometimes late night, weekends, etc... I have used the 76CSx, 60CSx, Colorado and Oregon. The 60CSx and Oregon are my favorites so far. We also have a local forum cacheoki dot com. If you have any questions, the local cachers seem to get on the other forums more often.

 

EQ

[+tlbeers]

Slapshot, I have the maps but how do I get a hold of you? Groundspeak does not see you email address.

[OkiFiend]

http://uud.info/en/

 

I purchased this map and it works great in Okinawa.

[+rcckq212]

http://uud.info/en/

 

I purchased this map and it works great in Okinawa.

 

I bought a 10meter TOPO coverage from Garmin (Japan), and the MicroSD card works just fine in my Garmin 550t.

 

http://www.iiyo.net/shop/shop.cgi?iframe=....amp;height=2500

 

The site is in Japanese but I have my web browser set to Translate and most of the translation to English is good enough to get a pretty good idea of what's offered.