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Maeda Point
 Cape Maeda, Onna-son, Okinawa, Japan
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Max Depth: 131-140ft/40-43m
Average Viz: 61-70ft/19-21m
Entry Type: Shore
Bottom Composition: Sand
Aquatic Life: Big Animals
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Rating: 3.96 by 26 divers
Spring: 71-75°F/22-24°C
Summer: 81-85°F/27-29°C
Fall: 76-80°F/24-27°C
Winter: 61-65°F/16-18°C
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Maeda Point is a shore accessible salt water dive site, located at Cape Maeda, Onna-son, Okinawa, Japan. This dive site has an average rating of 3.96 out of 5 from 26 scuba divers. The maximum depth is 131-140ft/40-43m. The average visibility is 61-70ft/19-21m. This dive site provides bathrooms and airfills.
You haven’t dived on Okinawa until you’ve dived at Maeda Point. At the reef’s edge and to the right, the depth is about 20 feet; to the left of the reef, it’s about 100 feet. At Maeda Point, you can see chromis, eels, tube worms, anemone, clownfish, lionfish, schools of squid and an occasional turtle.
Get on Highway 58 heading North. After passing Kadena Air Base you travel approximently 15 km till you see the overhead sign directing you to Cape Zanpa (Route 6). After turning onto that road you will travel for about 15 minutes depending on traffic. When you get to the second split in the road veer to the right. (This turn is located about 1 km outside of Zanpa itself) Another ten minute trip and you will see the sign to Maeda Point overhead. Follow that road down and you arrive at the parking gate.
Alternatively, Follow 58 north, turn left at the Ryukyu Mura Sign. Follow the road until just after the Ryukyu Mura building, where you’ll turn left (theres usually a yellow sports car on the right side of this road) follw the road until you reach a stop sign, turn left and then right onto the road to Maeda. You’ll run right into the parking lot.
The fee to park is 100 yen per hour (less than a dollar depending on the yen rate). Suit up in the parking lot and head to the stairs which take you down the cliff to entry point.