Escape the Tokyo heat to beach town, Shimoda

Waking up to 30 degrees heat inside an apartment that's hotter than the outside (when the maximum temperature is 36 degrees recently 🥵), the only way to cool down is head to the beach! In the last year and half that I have been living in Japan, we have visited 3 different Japanese beaches (Atami, … Continue reading Escape the Tokyo heat to beach town, Shimoda

The Japanese way of swimming at the beach

Atami's Sun Beach in Japan and Tamarama Beach in Australia side by side comparison for native expat 2019

Since moving to Japan at the start of the year from Australia, this has been one of the longest time that I haven’t seen or swum in an ocean - until the last weekend. We visited the closest beach resort area from Tokyo called 熱海 (Atami) 🏖 which took around 2 1/2 hours on a … Continue reading The Japanese way of swimming at the beach