Let's Quiet Tokyo Beaches

[cstaylor]

Josh is off by two train stations... Sakuragicho is okay, but the number one dating spot in all of the Kanto area is Ishikawacho.... the park near the Yokohama New Grand Hotel is famous for its beautiful scenery, quiet places to walk, and wonderful restaurants.

Of course, why wait until summer? Take your girlfriend up to Niigata for the skiing (two hours by train from Tokyo)... it's awesome.

[ramchop]

It's KEIKYU, motherfucker. If you're going to use one word, it's Keikyu. If you're going to say Keihin, you have to say "Keihin-Kyuko."

Calm down. You're not seriously annoyed by that are you? Little Boy Josh says so many offensive things and you get upset by that? Sad.

Keihin. Keihin. Keihin. Keihin. Keihin.

K E I H I N

[Big Booger]

Josh,
Until your little post you started to sound somewhat educated.. hehehe

Calm down paizan, before you sleep with the fishes.

Tony Montana: I kill a communist for fun, but for a green card, I gonna carve him up real nice.

"Her womb is so polluted she can't even have my f*cking baby."
BB

[Taro Toporific]

It's KEIKYU, motherfucker. If you're going to use one word, it's Keikyu. If you're going to say Keihin, you have to say "Keihin-Kyuko."

Keihin. Keihin. Keihin. Keihin. Keihin.
K E I H I N

Ah shucks, even after 20 years, I screw up on that "Keihin" every once and while, and I travel on the line to jobs.

[ramchop]

I seriously apologize for any immature comments or behaviuor that i've displayed on this board, I'll try to act and say things which are more appropriate for public viewing, seriously, thanks for hosting this message board, lates.

You really are schizo aren't you?

You may be a dork, a tosser, and a juvenile git.

But I'm sure half the shit you write is to provoke reaction, and none of it provokes thought. But you're a Fucked Gaijin nevertheless so you're welcome here as far as I'm concerned.


And where is bikkle?, it's he who deserves all our thanks. Not sure if he's hired a caretaker or has built a rock solid webstie. Either way he is God.

[Big Booger]

so how do you get to this godly place of a spot for romance? Just want to clear that up.

Chikan are kewl.. they are so groovy.. hehehe Nothing like an underwear bandit at a ladies lingerie shop.. or a slimey cold hand sliding up between your legs to grab ahold of your cod.. man, I can still remember that feeling.
HEHEHE j/k
BB

[GomiGirl]

There is always the love hotel option that offers a beach theme room? Then you will be really alone except for the hidden cameras...

We are assuming that you are looking for a lurve hideaway?? The only way you can be sure is if you go on a pre-date recce .. don't take our word for it..

There are some places around Zushi (near Kamakura) that are kinda nice - near the Marina - I guess at night you won't be able to see the grey sand. And it will be fairly quiet as August is the high season when all of the bars set up on the beaches.

You should be able to buy some cute fireworks around then as well - could be a kinda fun surprise for your gf - that is unless you are planning to make your own...... hhmmn

The pretty mosaic signs up on the breakwater at Kamakura are priceless Engrish.. "If you feel the earth guake, be ware of tsunami" or something like that. Just another piece of useless information from your old pal GomiGirl.

[Taro Toporific]

There are some places around Zushi (near Kamakura) that are kinda nice - near the Marina - I guess at night you won't be able to see the grey sand.

The 100+ year OLD Zushi Marina is a lot more romantic than the modern. Depending on night, there are live mini-concerts, piano, string quartets, etc. The deck overlooks the water and it cost less than 1,000yen for drinks and toy food (inside in the French cafe " Maree de Chaya", it's more than 6,000yen).

See Tokyo-area beach restaurants Maree de Chaya (French). 0468-75-6683.
A waterfront restaurant of note serving top-quality French cuisine with a beautiful view of the bay, Izu and Fuji-san from its upstairs dining rooms. The ground floor is a dining bar, with good snacks and live jazz on Saturday nights. Beware the dress code (no shorts for men or thong sandals on anyone). Dinner runs around Y6,000-8,000 per person.
Hayama-machi, Horiuchi 24-2. (near Hayama Marina (bus from Zushi)) Open noon-2:30, 5:30-9:30pm. Closed Mondays.

The new Marina is concrete at seen here...
http://www.marineresort.co.jp/zushi-marina/index.html

... kinda nice - near the Marina - I guess at night you won't be able to see the grey sand.

The sand is black, Mt. Fuji black, at low tide.

[ramchop]

guys lets stay on topic.. im not getting very many answeres here.. either there are or there arent. im sure there are some somewhere...

You're waiting until July?... there's no hurry then. I say let the topic roam, you'll get your answer eventually.

[GomiGirl]

guys lets stay on topic.. im not getting very many answeres here.. either there are or there arent. im sure there are some somewhere...

Zushi Zushi Zushi!! It is in Kanagawa prefecture. Around the Marina area. Taro and I both agree on that.. Just an hour from Tokyo in the car.

Get in your car and do a recce.. (recon mission - war speak given the current climate I thought we could all start using it..)

But it means, go and check it out for yourself.. there are heaps of bays, inlets, points etc and I am sure you will find a secluded little spot for romancing.. lets hope it is for romancing and not for murderous purposes as somebody suggested..

[Taro Toporific]

guys lets stay on topic.. im not getting very many answeres here.. either there are or there arent. im sure there are some somewhere...

Zushi Zushi Zushi!! It is in Kanagawa prefecture. Around the Marina area. Taro and I both agree on that.. Just an hour from Tokyo in the car.

RENT a sea kayak from Zushi marina. Then paddle out to the amazingly clean and groomed beach at an "unseen" cove like this one at Hayama Goyo Tei

I did that a couple of years ago.

Use this map for more info:
http://www.pluto.dti.ne.jp/~ebina/hayama/guide/index-e.html

[Taro Toporific]

Im looking for a beach within lets say.. an hour and a half to two hours from the tokyo area.. somewhere we can have a little privacy and maybe a picnic on the beach at night.. somethign nice, not trashy.. and not loaded with lots of people on a nice warm night in july... somewhere we can be alone!...

The "Boso Triangle"
-- ORAKU beaches for FG smooth operators

Raise your right hand FG.
Repeat after me:
I do solemnly swear to be cool about this "secret" nude beach, not to litter, and live-&-let-live with any weirdoes might be using the beach, so help me Kami-sama !

Ok, now that your all swore in let me tell you the best bitchin' beach in Kanto where I go to for solitude.

In this long-forgotten, not-online, Tokyo Journal article the now famous Gregory Clarkextols the beaches of the "Boso Triangle." I followed his mysterious directions and found "Shangri-la across the Bay"in Chiba's Boso peninsula. You can too.

"Chiba, Shangri-la across the Bay"
---by Gregory Clark, Tokyo Journal, Sept. 1990, pg 17

In Boso the beaches are so long and so wide you could dump the whole 30 million population of Tokyo, Chiba and Yokohama there and still have a lot of room to breathe. At the moment we only have a small fraction of that 30 million coming out during the summer. Bu if even that fraction worries you then let me tell you the rest of the secret.

Take a map and you will see the on the east side of Boso, a small strip of uninhabited coast between Ohara and Onjuku. It is uninhabited for a good reason: miles of steep 50-80 meter cliffs cut off all approach from the land. But centuries ago fishermen cut tunnels through to the bottoms of these cliffs so they could gather their seaweed and shellfish below. The entrances become overgrown and forgotten in the postwar wars and only now are being discovered [by surfers].

Of these secret beaches, my favorite is about three kilometers south of the fishing village of Iwafune. You walk about ten minutes on a muddy track from a dead-end parking road, slide through the mudrock tunnel and emerge at the top of a narrow trail about half way up the side of a cliff. The view that hits up as you come out of the dark, dank tunnel is unforgettable: a kilometer long pink/white sand beach, clean blue ocean, sheer cliffs with caves and ocean grottoes at the foot and an occasionally waterfall cascading down.

In the middle of August last year the beach was crowed--all of ten people. Several of them were naked. A small group was camping out. Distance from Tokyo: all of 100 minutes.


...Keep away from the main coastal roads in the top half of the peninsula, though, since in typical Japanese style they are now crowed out with the worst unplanned, tacky, urbane growth. But further down the coast we have some of the best beaches in Japan for surfing, especially on the Pacific side of the peninsula.

Onjuku, about half way down the coast, I would recommend for a family outing, is not too spoiled and with a broad white sand beach.

Kamagawa, a bit further down, has a good beach too and has some classy faculties, including a first-rate marine park.

The indented coastline between Onjuku and Kamagawa would be ideal of a long summer holiday, any number of small fishing villages with cheap minishiku and good places to explore...the Riviera of Tokyo.

...On balance I prefer my own neck of the woods, the triangle running from Ichinomiya/Ohara on the east coast, down to Kamagawa and then north up to Yoro-keikoku.

So there you have it. Get a good topographic hiking map and follow the instructions to the letter as I did to find it:

1. Go "three kilometers south of the fishing village of Iwafune" following the smallest road nearest the coast.

2. Find the "dead-end parking road" which is only a 50m spur off this micro coastal road. (Actually there are 3 "dead-end parking roads"]TA DA! PARIDISE! [/b] "Emerge at the top of a narrow trail about half way up the side of a cliff...see a kilometer long pink white sand beach."

Oh, by the way, here's a GREAT line that I used at that beach with my lady --- be sure to tell your girl to:
"At least take your top off so you won't look too odd."
It's a gay beach.

[cstaylor]

Oh boy... is it just me, or does someone feel the terrible presence of Ultra about to smite an unregistered poster?