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The Tour de Okinawa (ツール・ド・おきなわ Tsūru do Okinawa) is an annual professional road bicycle racing classic one-day race held in Okinawa Prefecture Japan. It was first started in 1989 as an amateur race but became professional in 1999. It became part of the UCI Asia Tour in 2005. Until 2007 it was a one-day race billing itself as the longest single-day course in Japan but was transformed into a two-day stage race in 2008 its UCI category changing from 1.2 to 2.2.