D-Bouldering Tsunashima — Local services in Yokohama

It's one of the best gyms I've visited in a while. The setting is really varied, including both crimps (old style) and dynos (new style) and well designed. It offers all types of walls (from slab to cave). The range of levels is also very wide, with the hardest ones being really hard. It has a Moonboard 2024 which was exciting to see. It also has a pretty good spray wall.

Facility-wise, it's quite spacious, with room to move around, benches and chairs. I like the turf flooring as it doesn't show dirt and allows your feet to stay relatively clean when you walk around. There are a couple of finger boards and two sets of campus boards. The work-out area is not well defined, though, and the equipment is not that varied. I would like to see some improvements there. The changing rooms and toilets were pretty well equipped and fairly spacious, and I liked that there were showers.

I really appreciated the drinks bar and the cafe; you very rarely find them in gyms here, so they were a pleasant surprise.

Price-wise, the session's cost was reasonable, but the registration fee was way too high. Paying almost 4,000 yen for your first session is just not OK. Tokyo's gyms really need to move past this habit of charging high registration fees.

Overall, I enjoyed my time there, and I will...

A very nice bouldering gym! I went Sunday midday so it was pretty crowded, but there’s lots of wall space and routes so I didn’t have much trouble finding less crowded areas to climb.

It is quite pricy however, as (most?) Japanese gyms make you pay a registration fee on top of your hourly/day pass. The registration is unnecessarily expensive, especially if I don’t know if I want to return to the gym.

Otherwise, gym was clean, routes were labeled clearly, staff were kind and patient, and there are changing rooms and lockers to store your things.

There is a good selection of routes, I especially enjoyed the slab problems. Japan has their own grading system, it could be helpful to have an equivalent...

The gym has a lot of variety, and the type of problems are well separated between walls. They change one wall every 1-1.5 months. Meanwhile, once per week, you are presented with a challenge: a combination of the already set boulders.

The atmosphere is lovely, but I can definitely see some possible improvements with the music playlist.

The personnel is cute, always kind and smiling. Unfortunately, they don't speak English, so sometimes it's hard to engage. However, they will not shy away from encouraging you...