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Yura Beach 由良海水浴場

Tsuruoka, YamagataTohoku

Yura Beach (由良海水浴場) is a bathing beach in Tsuruoka, Yamagata, in Japan's Tohoku region. In 2006 it was chosen by the Ministry of the Environment as one of the 100 Best Bathing Beaches in Japan. The ministry's judges gave it the full five stars for cleanliness, calm.

LocationTsuruoka, Yamagata (鶴岡市、山形県)
RegionTohoku
Official selection100 Best Bathing Beaches in Japan — Ministry of the Environment, 2006
Beauty★★★★☆ 4/5
Cleanliness★★★★★ 5/5
Calm★★★★★ 5/5
Gentleness★☆☆☆☆ 1/5
Richness★★☆☆☆ 2/5

The ministry scored every beach from one to five stars on five points of view: beauty, cleanliness, calm, gentleness (safety and facilities) and richness (nature and local life).

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The Official Profile

There are Yura symbols on the beach, and the island is a place for visitors to rest, including ocean fishing reefs and fishing piers. The period of bathing will be Saturday events of direct sale of sea goods from port. It's a beautiful beach garden with a view of the sunset on the Sea of Japan and of Shioyama on the beach. Shioyama Island is equipped with ocean fishing moats and piers. Also, on the beach in the residential districts, you can enjoy the happy times of the ocean and enjoy the family atmosphere. The origin of Yura is said to have begun here about 1,400 years ago, when the bee child, who fled the city and crossed the Japanese Sea, was said to have landed here. (The place where we landed at this time is called the Yagumi and Koura, and it is now reported that eight maidens showed up with the sound of ease and called off the queen.) We're actively doing beach cleaning in the city during the campaign to implement clean operations by local residents and in the course of bathing. I can't do it. If you're on a railroad bus, you're on a bus. station at and at 30 minutes. If you're in the car, you're in the car Yamagata Carway IC and Highway 7 to NiigataX. Tsuruoka City Eye. the Ministry of the Environment

Beach profile and access notes: Ministry of the Environment, “100 Best Bathing Beaches” official pages (2006 selection), translated from the Japanese.

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