Summer is here ! So what better thing to do than hit the beach !
Japan's summers are notoriously hot and humid affairs starting from early as Mid May with sunshine between showers of the torrential rain season in June (梅雨-tsuyu) with incredibly humid days comes July and August where the humidity can lessen to provide scorching hot days ideal for the beach.
As you'll see in other travel sections in this blog I love going to the beach in Summer having spent too may Scottish summers watching the rain outside, so its big novelty for me.
While my partner would prefer head for the mountains where the air is less humid and temperatures fall, I constantly hassle her to pick beach destinations. This year was looking like a non starter for going to the beach so I bought this from the local magazine shop.
The magazine features almost every known beach and Pool within traveling range from Tokyo. Pools being more popular from mid August as this is when stinging jellyfish start to appear.
Each beach is ranked on its cleanliness, beach houses provided, parking, access, budget and special sites and activities for each beach in expected Japanese precision.
Time for me to look forward to a cool slice of watermelon and roasted corn on the cob by the beach !
I'll be using this as my beach Bible for summers to come.
Posted by sasqwach
at July 1, 2007 8:02 AM | Permalink
