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Japan's Golden Week surf crowd

Postby waikikikichan » Sun May 07, 2017 9:44 am

Golden Week holidays surf crowd at Kugenuma beach. Photos taken by pro surfer Tadashi Doi.
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Re: Japan's Golden Week surf crowd

Postby dtc » Mon May 08, 2017 1:06 am

is that the nearest surfing beach to Tokyo?

I wonder how many injuries there are
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Re: Japan's Golden Week surf crowd

Postby Big H » Mon May 08, 2017 4:18 am

Been very crowded here lately.....more than a few collisions.....seems like it only gets more crowded in the lineups anymore.
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Re: Japan's Golden Week surf crowd

Postby malattia » Mon May 08, 2017 4:33 am

dtc wrote:is that the nearest surfing beach to Tokyo?


It should be, the ride to Chiba is a little longer.

I hope there's not many places like that and also that it's not so crowded so often (I may end up there in a couple of weeks...).
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Re: Japan's Golden Week surf crowd

Postby RinkyDink » Mon May 08, 2017 4:33 am

waikikikichan wrote:Golden Week holidays surf crowd at Kugenuma beach. Photos taken by pro surfer Tadashi Doi.]

I heard there were tea ceremony, flower arranging, and speed dating groups that meet regularly in the Kugenuma lineup.
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Re: Japan's Golden Week surf crowd

Postby OlegLupusov » Mon May 08, 2017 5:32 am

Is it even possible to surf in such conditions? Can't even imagine paddling out without being hurt.
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Re: Japan's Golden Week surf crowd

Postby waikikikichan » Mon May 08, 2017 6:54 am

Kugenuma is in Shonan, Kanagawa prefecture which is south of Tokyo. 1 hour drive.

Sometimes surfing there is like trying to run sprints in a baby play pen, you can't really get up to speed to really hurt someone. I got yelled at once for trimming across the face once. The local guy said I prevented 5 people from getting on the wave.
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Re: Japan's Golden Week surf crowd

Postby waikikikichan » Mon May 08, 2017 8:00 am

By the way, this is what Tokyo looked like on the same day. Doesn't get any less crowded.
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Re: Japan's Golden Week surf crowd

Postby surf patrol » Mon May 08, 2017 10:23 am

waikikikichan wrote:I got yelled at once for trimming across the face once. The local guy said I prevented 5 people from getting on the wave.

:lol:
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Re: Japan's Golden Week surf crowd

Postby dtc » Mon May 08, 2017 10:30 am

I don't know, Omotesando is looking a bit less crowded than normal...

Was it a crowd from the Meiji - Jingu spring festival?
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Re: Japan's Golden Week surf crowd

Postby waikikikichan » Mon May 08, 2017 8:31 pm

dtc wrote:Was it a crowd from the Meiji - Jingu spring festival?

Could be that some of them were going there. Was just the last Saturday of Golden Week. They stopped the "pedestrian mall" on Omotesando quite a few years back.
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Re: Japan's Golden Week surf crowd

Postby MartinBlasiusson » Fri Jun 02, 2017 6:46 am

I really wanna travel to Japan, and this photo just made me more eager to go.
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