Jodogahama Beach — Attraction in Miyako

If I was here for the first time I would have been seriously wowed. But I have walked 500 miles (literally, I'm on a walking pilgrimage from Hachinohe to Fukushima) so perhaps there are more majestic places along the Coast of Tohoku, but this is a little gem in itself. The Japanese call it the Pure Land Beach. The seagulls call this the Free Crackers Beach. When the tsunami came, the sea had receded so much the people knew to run away. The ferry area has a place where they play videos about the tsunami. If you take the ferry, they'll bring you to the Blue Cave and you can see a hole in the rocks, where water from Hachinohe flows in and try to squeeze their darndest past a hole, resulting in a spray of water that had escape their confines, like fats after a corset. The colours of the water change according to season, but the seagulls that perch on your ferry will not. They remain the same, winter, spring, summer or fall. All you have to do is call. And throw them a cracker.

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This is a beautiful area that is a national park. At the free large car park, there is a visitor Centre. . I car camped overnight here. There are nice clean toilets open 24 hours. Beware of bears though, I was warned by the park ranger. It’s an easy 15 minute walk down to the beach. You can take the path behind the visitor centre or start walking down from the road leading down and then take the steps. Once the visitor centre opens , you can take an elevator down to the beach level and then you have a shorter walk. The access to beach road for cars down opens at 8 am, but it is only for people with disabilities or very elderly. Feel free to walk down before 8 am. The car park seem to fill up when I was there in the summer. By the time I was leaving at midday. There is no shade on the beach, but you can rent parasols ¥1,000 and inflatables. It’s a nice sheltered beach that is great for families. The beach is stony rather than sandy so I recommend...

Worth visiting only if you have a vehicle and will come across the area or close to, it's not worth a separate intentional trip. The beach has many smooth pebbles and shells. The highlight is this beach area with the rock formations. You can circle around the beach since there is a paved seawall, but I don't think the view would improve with a walk - might be more fun to pick through sea shells. In the off-season (not summer), you should be able to drive all the way down to the beach, which is what I did. During peak season, you may need to park at their parking lots towards the descent on the same road leading to the beach which would entail walking an extra few hundred meters to a kilometre. Really clean...