Has anybody surfed longboards there?I'm following a guy on Instagram and gee there are a heap of super fun longboard waves he has posted.

My sister just came back from Japan,Taiwan etc and said Japan has heaps of good setups,best leg of the trip apparently.

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Ricardo1709 said..
My sister just came back from Japan,Taiwan etc and said Japan has heaps of good setups,best leg of the trip apparently.

Cheers for that,one break looks like malibu in the states and the food in Japan is awesome,beer too

I loved Japan, never surfed though, but have heard it's great.

Ronnie G would be able to fill you in on Japan..

My wife & I generally go to Japan every year to visit family. The food is awesome, the trains make it easy to get around Honshu the main island, renting a car & driving around Shikoku is best imo.

East of Tokyo, the Chiba prefecture has waves all along it. Above there does too, but its close to the Tokushima nuclear disaster & best avoided. Above there has some of the best waves in Japan, but the infrastructure has been destroyed by the tsunami. Below Chiba prefecture is the bit pointing out. The Izu peninsular has great waves South of the end, round from Shimoda. Lots of little sandy bays & a number of outer islands you can reach by Ferry that have good waves. Then there is a big gap in waves along the coast & you wouldn't want to surf there anyway. Coz the Nagoya prefecture is the most heavily polluted area of Japan. This is where the big manufacturing places began & still remain. There are waves on the South end of Honshu, the Wakayama prefecture, but its just as easy to head to the best area, Shikoku.

For a first trip to Japan Kamakura, just below Tokyo keeps things pretty simple & allows you to check out all the other cool stuff Japan has to offer. The owner of a surf shop posts video's of the surf there on his youtube channel fairly regularly. /videos

The Shimoda area is also very easy to get to along a scenic coastal trainline running as far as Shimoda with a short taxi ride to hotels round by the surf which is busy on weekends.

The beer however, although it goes down great & tastes good. They have some of the worst beer for hangovers imo.

I edited this vid last week, its got a typical Japanese meal in it


And this area has heaps of waves along an easily accessible coast road, no secrets. Just drive along till you see something you like

They're great clips Mick, really enjoyed them, but that was just so funny in the second one where you were work'n your guts out trying to make that cheap arsed rental board do some meaningful work

Thanks Mick!

Mac, sadly the closest I came to surfing in Japan was visiting The Patagonia Shop in Tokyo!

I did do a bit of Tokyo Drifting today though!

i've ridden long boards in japan.







i brought skis a bit longer and wider for all that north island powder


japan is is a great place to visit- great food and beer. even lunch out on the ski fields is a delight. for instance, the hanazono cafe had a full spanner crab soup for something like $14 from memory.

i remember after year after japan having a mouthful for 4xxxx gold back home and almost spitting it out in disgust.



yeah, yeah- no need for the smartarse reply ted

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obct said..
They're great clips Mick, really enjoyed them, but that was just so funny in the second one where you were work'n your guts out trying to make that cheap arsed rental board do some meaningful work

lol cheers mate...beggers can't be choosers. I wasn't gonna lug around a quiver for a couple of days surfing

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Simondo said..
Thanks Mick!

NP

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laceys lane said..

i remember after year after japan having a mouthful for 4xxxx gold back home and almost spitting it out in disgust.



yeah, yeah- no need for the smartarse reply ted

Ahhh I get it now lol....but you can drink 4XGold till the cows come home & not suffer anything like the brutality of a night on the Asahi/Sapporo/ChuHi

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Simondo said..
I did do a bit of Tokyo Drifting today though!

That looks so fun

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laceys lane said..
i remember after year after japan having a mouthful for 4xxxx gold back home and almost spitting it out in disgust.

yeah, yeah- no need for the smartarse reply ted

Thats Gold LL. I know people (myself) wh spit that stuff out without even going to Japan !

I loved that new Vid Mick - did you get your chickybabe to look down as she crossed the window? That was a funny sequence.

^ haha nope, I was surprised she even crossed it at the end there. She was really genuinely scared