These areas boast some of the best beaches in all of Kansai (south-central Japan), and are home to historic onsen areas, as well as offering coral reefs said to be a diver's paradise.

According to the Japan Productivity Center's "White Paper on Leisure," while about 37.90 million people visited beaches in Japan in 1985, in 2022 the count stood at about 3.6 million. Bathing ...

Miura is one of the growing number of resort beaches in Japan being closed, highlighting challenges such as labor shortages, competition from other leisure activities and poor visitor behavior.

The 2014 estimate by Udo and her colleagues based on map information and other sources estimated that the total area of beaches throughout Japan will decrease by 40 to 90 percent toward the end of ...