{"id":25264,"date":"2012-05-26T12:55:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T16:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=25264"},"modified":"2012-05-26T12:55:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T16:55:47","slug":"japanlocal-yunohama-beach-in-tsuruoka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/26\/japanlocal-yunohama-beach-in-tsuruoka\/","title":{"rendered":"JapanLocal: Yunohama Beach in Tsuruoka"},"content":{"rendered":"

JETAA Philadelphia Subchapter<\/a>\u00a0rep\u00a0Rashaad Jorden<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0recently wrote the following article for the Japan Tourist website (a great example of JETs helping to promote \u201clocal\u201d tourism for Japan):<\/em><\/p>\n

Yunohama Beach in Tsuruoka: \u00a0Sand in the Land of Snow<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

While Yamagata Prefecture is famous for\u00a0skiing and snowboarding, its mountains definitely don’t hold a monopoly on providing outdoor fun. Come July and August, the prefecture’s sand gets its turn to woo tourists.<\/p>\n

Located within the Tsuruoka City limits on the Sea of Japan coast, Yunohama is Yamagata Prefecture’s most popular beach locale.<\/p>\n

Each summer thousands of people descend upon it, albeit really only for the month-long swimming season, which starts on Marine Day weekend (Marine Day is celebrated on the third Monday of July). The\u00a0roughly one kilometer beach does contain large stretches of empty sand as most beachgoers are confined to the space near the lifeguards’ chairs.<\/p>\n

Although Yunohama doesn’t seem too different from many other beaches\u2014big crowds on the weekend, plenty of swimmers and surfers, and lots of athletic types playing soccer and volleyball\u2014it does offer beachgoers the convenience of not having to step off the sand in order to replenish burned calories. Stands selling, among other things, fish,\u00a0takoyaki<\/em>, and French fries in addition to plenty of sports drinks and soda are on the premises.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking for something more than a suntan\u2014or shelter from the sun in a tent (a common sight in Yunohama)\u2014the area has more to offer. A short bicycle ride from the beach takes you to Kamo Aquarium. If\u00a0dolphins don’t interest you, maybe hot water does. Yunohama is actually most famous for its\u00a0onsen,\u00a0<\/em>as numerous\u00a0<\/em>signs in the Tsuruoka city center direct motorists to the popular\u00a0onsen<\/em>\u00a0resort.<\/p>\n

However, you can hit up the\u00a0onsen<\/em>\u00a0any time of year. Do your best to take advantage of the limited time in summer when you can fully enjoy Yunohama.<\/p>\n

Pratical information<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n

– \u00a0There’s no entry fee for the beach at Yunohama, but it costs at least 800 yen to park in the nearby lots.<\/p>\n

– Swimming season\u00a0at Yunohama lasts for about only a month, starting Marine Day weekend.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE to read the full article on Japan Tourist and see photos.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JETAA Philadelphia Subchapter\u00a0rep\u00a0Rashaad Jorden\u00a0recently wrote the following article for the Japan Tourist website (a great example of JETs helping to promote \u201clocal\u201d tourism for Japan): Yunohama Beach in Tsuruoka: \u00a0Sand in the Land of Snow While Yamagata Prefecture is famous for\u00a0skiing and snowboarding, its mountains definitely don’t hold a monopoly on providing outdoor fun. Come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[369,282,368,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan-local","category-jet-roi","category-traveltourism","category-writers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-6zu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25267,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25264\/revisions\/25267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}