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Description: a guide to the coastal area south of Yokohama
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S honan is the coastal area thirty to sixty minutes south of Tokyo-Yokohama. Shonan is a part of Sagami Bay (see map above). The bay does extend beyond the confines of Hiratsuka and Hayama, but the surrounding areas are less populated than this central part.
There are a mixture of sandy and rocky beaches here. During the summer, as you might expect being so close to Tokyo-Yokohama, the beaches are quite crowded. The beaches of central Kamakura (Zaimokuza) and Fujisawa near Enoshima (Island) seem to be the most popular destinations. The long stretches of beach between Fujisawa and Hiratsuka woluld be the least crowded during the summer.
South of Zushi-Hayama, the coast becomes rocky; there are several popular diving spots in this area. Sandy beaches resume on the southern and eastern sides of the Miura Peninsula in Miura and Yokosuka.
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