Coast / Beach Spots in Mie Area

  • Gotemba Beach
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Pref. Tsushi Fujikata
    "Located in Fujikata, Tsu City, approximately 17kilometersof this famous coast and beaches with its white sand and green pine trees have been designated as a prefectural national park. The wide beach and calm waves of the sea are ideal for swimming and beach volleyball. It is also a clamming spot, where visitors can gather shellfish such as razor clams and asari clams. Visitors can also experience using a beach seine or the ""set net"", whereby fish are caught in a net set along the mud flats when the tide goes out. There are also several rest areas, so families can enjoy the beach throughout the whole day."
  • Ichigo Beach
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Pref. Shimashi Agochoushijima
    This beach is accessible by taking the Shima Nokyo-mae bound bus service from UgataStation on the Kintetsu Shima Line. It is located at the end of the 20-minute bus ride and a further five-minute walk from the final bus stop. Spider Lily blooms along this beautiful white sand beach, and on a clear day, the blue sky continues all the way to the far horizon. It is very popular for surfing, but the scenery can also be enjoyed on a drive along the edge of the beach. Although there are parking lots, toilets and sidewalks available, the beach is not a designated place for swimming, so visitors must be aware of their own responsibility in that regard.
  • Mukai Kuro Beach
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Pref. Owaseshi Mukai Black beach
    This clamming beach in Owase City is one of the best in Mie Prefecture. You can reach it by taking the bus bound for Kii Matsumoto from JR Owase Station for 11 minutes, getting off at the Mukai bus stop, and walking another five minutes. Benzai-jima Island is visible in the bay, as are wave eroded cavities and sea caves along the shore. The season for gathering Manilla clams lasts from late March to early June. Nearby you can visit the Kumano Kodo Center to learn about the ancient Kumano Kodo pilgrimage trail. Yumekodo is close too, where you can bathe in deep ocean water. It's a great place for a day of fun for parents and kids alike.
  • Azuri Beach
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Pref. Shimashi Shimachoukoshika
    This coast extends for approximately 200 meters along the Shima Peninsula. It is a wide, shallow beach with gentle waves and is very popular for swimming in the summer. Because it is west-facing, in the evenings, especially in the summer, the whole coast is painted red with the sunset, making it an extremely scenic spot. It is also famous as a filming location, where movies such as Yellow Elephant were filmed. In the middle of the beach, there is a small island called Suzume Island, which also gives the beach the name Monster Beach, because at certain times of the day, the island appears as the head of a monster that bites into the sinking sun.
  • Shichiri Mihama Beach
    Travel / Tourism
    Kumano City, Mie Prefecture-Nanjo County Kihocho
    "This is the longest sandy beach in Japan, extending 22 kilometers from Kumano City to Kiho City. It was chosen as one of the Japan's 100 Best Beaches and also one of the ""top 100 places of nature we want to protect in the 21st century"". The pebbles polished by the turbulent waves of the Kumano Sea are called Mihama Pebbles and are used as accessories and the like. The beach is also well-known as a place where Loggerhead sea turtles come up onto land. The beautiful landscape lends itself to photography, with the scenery in the daytime having an incredible contrast between the blue of the sea and the white clouds, and the orange of the sunrise."
  • Oka Niwa Beach
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Mie Watarai-gun Minamiisecho Okaura
    This stretch of coastline is situated on Prefectural Route 722 in Okaura, Minamiise Town, Watarai County, Mie Prefecture. A sandy beach curbing in a beautiful arc, in the summer visitors can have fun swimming here. Several lagoons, bodies of seawater separated from the ocean, sprawl on the side opposite the sea.
  • Chiyozaki Kaigan
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Suzuka-shi Minamiwakamatsucho
  • Machiya Kaigan
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Tsu-shi Kurimamachiyacho
  • Atsu Sato Hama Kaigan
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Shima-shi Shimacho Koshika
  • Tobashirahamakai Beach
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Pref. Tobashi Uramurachou Shirahama
  • Gotenba Hama
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Tsu-shi Fujikata
  • Ta So Shirahama
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Watarai-gun Minamiisecho Tasoura
  • Shichirimihama
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Minamimuro-gun Kihocho Ida
  • Tsuzumigaura
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Suzuka-shi Jike 3-chome
  • Futamiura Kaigan
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Ise-shi Futamicho Sho
  • Shichirimihama
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Minamimuro-gun Kihocho Ida
  • Shichirimihama
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Minamimuro-gun Mihamacho
  • Hozaura
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie
  • Hiro no Hama
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie Shima-shi
  • Miura
    Travel / Tourism
    Mie

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Spread across the eastern side of the Kii Peninsula, Mie prefecture boasts hundreds of kilometers of pretty coastline comprising the oyster-rich Toba city and Shima National Park all the way down to Kumano, a city that marks the beginning of part of the Kumano Kodo pilgrimage, which runs into neighboring Wakayama prefecture. However, Mie is best known for the Ise Jingu Shinto shrine inland, one of the oldest and largest shrines in the country.

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