🏊 Swimming

4 discoveries

Uwara Beach

A gently shelving cove ranked among Japan's 100 best beaches, where a white torii gate stands facing the sea and shallow, calm water has drawn swimming families for generations.

📍 Chiba, Katsuura 🆓 Free ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

🌻 Summer

🛸 Oddity

Nissan Water Park

A heated indoor water park built directly under the east-gate stands of Nissan Stadium — Japan's largest stadium — where you can swim laps beneath the seats that once held a World Cup final.

📍 Kanagawa, Yokohama 💴 Paid ⏱ ≈ 1 hour

✨ Experience

River Kwai Floating Raft Restaurants

On the Kwai in Kanchanaburi, whole restaurants — and hotels — float on bamboo-and-drum rafts moored to the bank. You eat river fish over the water, the current tugging gently beneath your feet, and can slip straight in for a swim.

📍 Kanchanaburi, Mueang Kanchanaburi 🎫 Varies ⏱ Half day

🏞️ Scenic

Yunohama Beach

A long, gentle sand beach on the Japan Sea coast near Tsuruoka, with shallow swimming water, a torii standing out in the waves, and famously glowing sunsets — Yamagata's easygoing summer seaside, with a hot spring right behind it.

📍 Yamagata, Tsuruoka 🆓 Free ⏱ Half day

🌻 Summer

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