Jodogahama, where he usually starts the tours, is a famous tourist location on the Sanriku Coast in Iwate. Here’s the spot his tours usually start from: https://goo.gl/maps/v7VQnvHb3Qte3uLQ6
This time we were just a few hundred meters north of there in Takonohama (Octopus Bay). We started from here: https://goo.gl/maps/8MYMvR1XbWUCgoEp6
Kazumasa Suzuki operates the Sanriku Sea Kayak School Season in Miyako. The (Japanese) website is sea-son.net. He offers a family friendly sea kayaking experience right in the Jodogahama Beach area that is very safe and appropriate for families with younger children. (Children as young as five-years-old can safely participate.) The standard tours are 90-minutes (¥5,500 per adult or ¥4,000 for junior high school students and younger), and a more adventurous two-hour tour is ¥6,500 per adult. These are prices for groups of three to 20 people. Tours operate from March through November, and prices may be slightly higher during the peak season in August. Kayaks, paddles, and life preservers are included, but you’ll need to bring a few things like UV protection (hat, sunglasses, lotion, etc.), and crocs or some kind of footwear that can get wet. Details of what to bring are listed on his website and more photos are available on his Instagram account @sanriku_seakayakschool_season.
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“It felt more dramatic than it looks.” Oh, it looked plenty dramatic! What great adventures you share — thank you! And I can easily see why the Pure Land school of Buddhism found that area so inspiring.
Ocean waves can be so scary—I’ve only ever kayaked in rivers. But I would brave it to see the coast and caves!
What an amazing adventure! I would love to kayak that area, thanks for the tour! 🤙🏼
Stunning
What a lovely trip, I hope you make some more of these. Whilst I love your hikes, way too few people do these kayak videos.
Beautiful video with wonderful scenery even though I live here in miyako the scenery never wears on me it’s just a wonderful place to live, I love running around this coast when I finish work. Iwate is a seriously under appreciated place I love it for so many reasons be it watching the rice paddies change over the year in Kawai and Niisato, the snow in central Iwate, the skateboarding scene in Hanamaki… so many things to love here 🙂
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🛶💨😲😄😂…amazing trip, very well filmed… mountaineer goes boating 😨😇🤭
such a harsh but beautiful landscape.
What an absolutely beautiful place!! I love the 'hidden' gems of Japan! Great sharing, as always!!
Danke!
Thank you so much for uploading this!!! ❤️ Tohoku is like a second home to me and watching your videos about those places I know brings so much joy to my life, especially during the Japan travel ban! 浄土ヶ浜 will always have a special place in my heart, so I was really excited seeing this video! Thank you so much!! 🙇♂️🙇♂️
I loved this video, but something was said that deeply troubled me. I’ve followed you a long time, but admittedly I don’t tend to comment, because of severe cyberbullying PTSD(not from your commenters, there was an incident years ago, when YouTube was still new, and it makes me freeze up when I think about engaging on the internet), but I couldn’t not speak up about this. I’m a marine biologist, and do a lot of work with sharks and shark conservation. They’re deeply misunderstood animals, who’ve had a false narrative imposed on them, nearly since humankind first took to the oceans. There is no such thing, as a “man eating” shark, and while I understand that this likely merely a jest type comment you made, it’s harmful. I have worked almost my whole life, to change public opinion on sharks, after the lingering effects left by films like Jaws, and the narrative these “shark attack” forms of media present. When you are in the oceans, you are in THEIR home, not the other way around. Humans do not own the waters of this planet. They don’t own the land, either, but that’s a whole other argument… Sharks attack humans out of fear, because their poor sense of sight mistakes a human for prey, because the human is in the water with known shark prey in known shark hunting areas, territoriality, because the human knowingly or unknowingly threatens them; In all cases, it is because the HUMAN made a mistake, or knowingly chose to engage in behavior that could result in an attack. Sharks do not attack because they want specifically to eat or hurt humans, we don’t taste good to them at all. I know this, I’ve been in the water with tons of shark species, including species who are known to be aggressive and highly territorial, and in my over 34 years of life, I have never been attacked, nor have I ever felt threatened by a shark. I’ve even had my life saved by a shark, and it was a species known for being aggressive. I would have drowned, if not for that shark very purposefully saving my life. So please, I ask you to not make jokes like these, as the court of public opinion on sharks, is a room filled with broken glass that I have been trying to clean up, my whole life. Most people will recognize your statement as merely being a joke, but there are those who will take it more seriously, cause I’ve had more than my fair share of experience with those kinds of people. Thank you.
One of the best videos you've done! Thanks for it 🙂 You need to do a new spin-off series just on the water 😉
Every time you say "This is exciting " I hear "oh fu** oh fu**!!" Loved this place… Beautiful nature!!
The water looks stunning 😍 (but the waves must be challenging 🙈)
Beautiful cinematography here Quinlan! Those caves look so fun to kayak through and that water is gorgeous. It looks like you had a fun day out on the water! I think that one bird was trying to defend it’s nest. The cliffs there are just majestic! Thanks for a superb vlog!
Wow this area is so beautiful and the landscape is very distinct with those interesting forms the rocks have taken on. I also can't believe the water is so clear, here where I live by the sea it is often so muddy you struggle to see anything below the water! What do the Sea hoya taste like? I must admit they don't look very appetising…Anyway the Kayaking looks like great fun, another great video Quinlan!
Lovely. I sure hope Mr. Suzuki has a radio that warms about tsunami given the history of the region.
something about the sound of the gentle slosh as the paddle goes through the water is so relaxing
That Tohoku trip just keeps getting longer. Looks like a beautiful adventure. Building up the muscles that mountain hiking perhaps doesn’t. I personally love a good hike where there is water views.
カヤックで海辺の遊覧は最高にステキですね😲👍でもカヤックを漕ぐ技術力が必要ですね😆👋
Thank you for yet another beautiful video!
Beautiful video as always!! I’ve kayaked Catalina Island off San Diego all the way around and to bird poop island and it’s was awesome but not nearly as beautiful as this trip!!! I would go in a heartbeat, but when does the water warm up if ever? Thanks again!!!
Are you kidding me? Definitely felt dramatic I was ducking my head along with you! Beautiful video loved this! 😍❤️
Dear Quinlan;
As you must be aware by now (I did see the absurd exchange in Twitter btw) Japan did open its borders for tourists but the conditions to get in these trips are borderline offensive, with some of the language used by the japanese media to qualify tourists and foreigners rude and demeaning. And for somebody like me that has been in love with Japan for the last thirty years plus, that is working hard to put money aside to make my first trip there in this September something special, and yes even learning the language, this whole situation has been quite the blow.
I have been feeling depressed, and sad and angry and a whole lot of emotions that I’m not used to feel, that I don’t like to feel, as I’m a pretty optimistic kind of person, with all that negativity draggin me down since discovering what the « opening of the borders » really meant for the government of Mr Kishida.
And then… this video.
With it, as simple as this adventure may seen to be, you made me remember why I love the nature of Japan so much, why I love that country so much and how your joy and excitment in sharing your experience makes me smile and forget the unpleasantness of the last few days.
Trully a balm for the mind and for the soul.
So thank you, again, always, for being one of the nicest content creators in this corner of YT.
I can only hope that one day I will be able to thank you personally for this video, for this channel, and for all the joy and all the beauty you share with us.
Hopefully it will be up North, in Tohoku, in Japan.
Until then thank you again Quinlan.
Be well.
This looked so exciting. Thank you
行ったことがないですが、とても綺麗なところですね。(^^)
Would love to throw a scuba tank on and explore the underwater areas. Water clarity looks amazing.
Oh wow, this was really cool to watch!! I'd love to do this and would definitely hire you to come along. How neat to partner up so that more people can experience this. Thanks for sharing Quinlan!
i love the ocean and its so refreshing to see some marine content in your channel. Nice video 😀
As an ocean person it was lovely to see a video from the coast again! The kayaking looked like so much fun and exploring those caverns and shorelines just perfect. The pine covered, rocky coastline reminds me of Galicia in Spain where my family are all from too, which was a treat. As someone who's always been huge fan of all the stunning beauty of Kyoto prefecture, I can honestly say your videos have made me realise I'd be more than happy to spend the entirety of a visit to Japan in Tohoku! I hope I'll be in a position to do so sooner rather than later and get to enjoy all these wonderful places in person. Great work Quinlan.
looked like a good time
That looked awesome (and a little scary)! Japan is soooo beautiful. 🙂
Would love to do this but my wife, who is Japanese, said she gets REALLY sick on kayaks.
Quinlan, what great videography! What camera did you use on this shoot? The quality was wonderful and the colors were so vivid. We really enjoyed seeing you on the water!
Amazing little outing! Happy you got to enjoy that spectacular coast up close ( really close), with a nice workout as a bonus.
I hope you get some takers on those tours, it's a great idea. Just need to get a bit more confidence on the kayak, because it's not going to be that flat all the time 😉
I really like this video because of the different perspective you get of your surroundings and to see a different element (water) more in the focus. Please more tours like this one. Maybe through a scenic forest river or down a mountain. 😀 (but take care of yourself, don't get too risky^^)
This is wonderful. And fun. Thank you
I saw the sea kayaks when we were there in GW, way too crowded to think about it. Looking forward to trying it out. Also not a hoya fan. 🤫😆
This is exactly the sort of thing I was asking after a long while back – love that you found a great guide to try out some sea kayaking and caves too! It looked like a great place for it from previous coastal visits. Whenever I can finally get to Japan, this will be on the list for sure, and with your assistance as well if possible!
Kayaking can definitely be an insane core workout especially if it's not flat waters . I used to do it a lot since I live in Hawaii . Going through tunnels/caves are one of my favorite things to do though it does get pretty dangerous when you don't know the tides/surroundings
Great video! One thing I have never understood is why Japanese people don't use their inland waterways for recreation. I think kayaking on the Mogami river would be awesome.
Here's a suggestion-the spring skiing at Gassan. I went once, and it was fantastic, nothing but sun and snow above the treeline. However, the apres ski is really pretty dull up there!
One of the many things I wish I had the money for, either way looks beautiful. Thanks for showing!
If you had a waterproof camera, would have been interesting to get some underwater shots.
"it felt more exiting than it looks" that made me laugh. I can imagine it felt very close with just a kayak around you 🙂 This seems less scary than the adventure kayak you did last year (or was it earlier this year..hm..) anyway…cool project 🙂 the landscape looked beautiful
Somehow I missed this video when it came out. So glad that you mentioned it again and congrats on the article publication. What a fun adventure!