Andy and I arrived in Japan in September 2005. The weather when we got here was really warm (maybe 32 degrees) so we spent our spare time sightseeing.
Fukuoka is really close to the sea so we visited many different beaches close to our apartment. What surprised us though was that despite temperatures of 30 and 32 degrees there was no other people at the beach. I don't mean in a bikini or shorts sunbathing, I mean there was no one anywhere! This came as a bit of a surprise, but we were to discover the reason for it later. We just enjoyed having a beautiful beach to ourselves.
Not a cloud in the sky!
Me enjoying a dip in the warm sea. Being a northern girl, I found it a real novelty not getting frost bite from the water.
Deserted!
A view of Fukuoka A couple of months after arriving here we asked some of our western friends why the beach was so deserted. Their response was September is not beach time! What happens here in Japan is that a guy on the news announces, in August, that people can go to the beach. People then go to the beach in droves and sunbathe and do beach stuff. Then a couple of weeks the same guy tells them that beach time is over, and that's it the beach is deserted until the following August.
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