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Newcomers show the way for Ichinomiya employment conundrumIt’s an early winter weekday, but staff at Third Place guest house in Ichinomiya, Chiba Prefecture, are far from winding down for the off-season. After checking in two guests, owner Toshimune Hashimoto and his deputy, Keita Irie, wave off a few local surfers who have been using the showers, changing facilities and surfboard lockers that are a feature of Third Place, a Western style accommodation …
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City surfers look to Ichinomiya for lifestyle sea changeNaminori Real Estate located in Ichinomiya Town, Chiba, has barely opened its doors for business when the phone rings and an inquiry about a seafront property comes in from out of town. “At times the phone hasn’t stopped ringing,” comments staffer Romy Iwashita as she jots down the Tokyo-based caller’s details and preferred date to view the property. The caller on this mid-November morning has an …
Culture/Tourism/Food2020 Venue
Surf’s up for Chiba town looking to ride 2020 Olympic waveAt Tsurigasaki beach, Ichinomiya Town, a stone torii gate rises solemnly from the silken black sand, marking the place where according to Japanese folklore, Tamayori-hime, a mythological deity and putative mother of Japan’s earliest emperor, Jimmu, first stepped foot on mortal land. The gate, which is part of the town’s revered Tamasaki Shrine, will serve a more contemporary function when the gods of the surfing …
Local Initiatives2020 Venue
Children of a surfing town learning about marine plasticsIchinomiya Town, Chiba is located about 70 kilometers from central Tokyo, on the Pacific coast, and 600,000 surfers visit there every year for its quality waves. The waves along Tsurigasaki Beach in particular are said to be world class, and it has been chosen as the venue for surfing, which will be an official event for the first time in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. With a …
*The prefectures indicated by are hosting venues for the Olympics and Paralympics.
1Hokkaido
2Aomori
3Akita
4Iwate
5Yamagata
6Miyagi
7Fukushima
8Tochigi
9Ibaraki
10Gunma
11Saitama
12Chiba
13Tokyo
14Kanagawa
15Niigata
16Toyama
17Ishikawa
18Fukui
19Nagano
20Yamanashi
21Shizuoka
22Gifu
23Aichi
24Shiga
25Mie
26Kyoto
27Osaka
28Nara
29Wakayama
30Hyogo
31Tottori
32Okayama
33Shimane
34Hiroshima
35Yamaguchi
36Kagawa
37Tokushima
38Ehime
39Kochi
40Fukuoka
41Saga
42Nagasaki
43Oita
44Kumamoto
45Miyazaki
46Kagoshima
47Okinawa
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