Azukihama Beach — Attraction in Shichigahama

Beautiful coastline frequented by swimmers and surfers. It is an especially popular beach for avid surfers for it's relatively strong, steady waves. NOTE: A word of caution is in order. At times the undertow can be strong and unpredictable.

While the image portrays a serene beach at rest, on March 11, 2011 in the afternoon, an earthquake shook the ocean floor out from this location. The ocean quickly receded (from storied accounts), and then, with a vengeance stormed onto the landscape, as a formidable wall of seawater, some 7 meters in hight, highlighted by local blue Tsunami historical markings. At a reported speed of a jet plane cruising at 500 miles an hour, and the power of several runaway locomotives, the mass of sea, slammed into the shoreline and obliterated everything in its path. Only a few hearty pine trees survived it's vengeance. After the sea returned to normal, some reported 3 to 7 tsunamis later, a large metal cargo containers, from an unknown cargo ship, lay helplessly stranded for awhile on this sandy beach.

Around the corner of the first image, is another beautiful sandy beach which extends far off, as far as the eye can see, into the horizon. The Kroehler's loving called this streatch of beach the "Mile Beach." The name stuck. Why it was not referred to as the "Shobuta Beach," which is the actual formal name, or the "Kilometer Beach," a Japanese measurement for a distance, remains...

Fantastisch rustig strand om te ontspannen en een frisse duik te nemen.

Doe geen moeite om naar een bewaakt strand te gaan, hier is het veel rustiger.

De golven bij het strand zijn leuk om in te spelen en het water is in ieder geval in juli en augustus niet te koud.

Er is een parkeerplaats aan de weg bij het strand, met een...

砂浜です。 宮城県道58号「塩釜七ヶ浜多賀城」線沿いの砂浜です。駐車場ありです。（小豆浜公園駐車場） サーフスポットのようで、サーフフィンを楽しむ方が多くいる海です。 そのため、結構駐車場は埋まっている印象があります。 サーフィンしてる人を見ながら海をぼーっと眺めることができます。 夜も訪れたことがありますが、波が多いのと夜が静かなこともあり、波の音が大きく多く聞こえてびっくりしました。 「なんか怖いねー」って友人と言いながら数分で帰ってきたのも思い出...