Tatadohama beach — Attraction in Shimoda

Great beach, the water is super clear & clean compare to Minami Izu Beach. They also have toilets & you can rent parasols, floats & chairs.

The water is a bit cold. BUT one annoying thing : for weather ever reason the beach parking closes at 5PM and the workers starting calling your call at 4:30PM although they know you still have 30minutes to go…

Nothing surprising considering we’re in Japan & deinfitely not known to be flexible but weird that a public parking “closes” & that even before sunset! Anyways, at least they allow music & drinking...

A small sandy beach that was virtually deserted, but clearly beloved of surfers. There were a few trying the rather small waves. Either end of the beach holds points of interest - a natural tunnel rough the rock to the sea (used for small boat launching) at one end and some wild rock formations and caves at the other. The area isn't built up at all. I was here early April,...

Beautiful beach. The waves was strong this day and many surfers are there. We were sitting on the concrete parking lot, watching the waves feeling the sea breeze.beautiful memory. I could stay there all day. I climb up the rocks and found private beach on the right but then later I found out on google map it was an actual private beach...