I've found beach season on the western coast of Japan to be very short, only about four to six weeks long. April 18th, which is a national holiday known as Sea or Beach Day, tends to mark the opening of the season, and the coming of jellyfish at the end of August tends to mark the close. Outside of these dates, if you are swimming and barbecuing at the beach, people tend to think you are a little strange.
Image Credits:The images in this post were taken by me on an iPhone 6.
Yep, not typically what comes to mind when you think of Japan, but it's a beautiful country when you go a ways outside the big cities. Sadly I don't get to the beach that often (last time I went was years ago) as it's quite a long trip from where I live in the urban sprawl of Tokyo, and there always seem to be other places that grab my attention when I want to do a day trip somewhere.
Awwww. Stuck in the urban sprawl. Going to the beach for the day doesn't sound so appealing when you have to drive an hour or more to get there. Carrying all of your beach stuff for an hour on a train doesn't sound like fun either. At that point, I think you have to make a weekend out of it. Can you rent houses on the beach for a weekend in Japan like you can in the States? I wonder.
Yeah that pretty much sums it up. There are artificial beaches around Tokyo Bay, but given the water quality there I'd fear for my health if I tried to go swimming. Rental beach houses, hmm, you might be onto something there...
thats japan??? wow
It is. The Japanese coast has a lot of variation. It can be really wild like Big Sur, and it can be really developed. Japan is a beautiful place!
Yep, not typically what comes to mind when you think of Japan, but it's a beautiful country when you go a ways outside the big cities. Sadly I don't get to the beach that often (last time I went was years ago) as it's quite a long trip from where I live in the urban sprawl of Tokyo, and there always seem to be other places that grab my attention when I want to do a day trip somewhere.
Awwww. Stuck in the urban sprawl. Going to the beach for the day doesn't sound so appealing when you have to drive an hour or more to get there. Carrying all of your beach stuff for an hour on a train doesn't sound like fun either. At that point, I think you have to make a weekend out of it. Can you rent houses on the beach for a weekend in Japan like you can in the States? I wonder.
Yeah that pretty much sums it up. There are artificial beaches around Tokyo Bay, but given the water quality there I'd fear for my health if I tried to go swimming. Rental beach houses, hmm, you might be onto something there...
Thank you for the images :)
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