Mechanics of Shidashita, Japan
Photo: Pedro Gomes
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Shidashita Beach will host the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games’ first surfing event (After being postponed last summer.) Known as “Shida” for short, this is one of Japan’s most popular beaches and one of the closest surf spots to Tokyo with a series of groins and shifty beachbreak peaks waiting a mere 60-mile ride from the megalopolis across the Chiba Peninsula.
While the Olympic Games will come to Japan during the slower months for surf (surf schedule: July 5-August 1) this is also when tropical activity picks up in the Northwest Pacific. Surfline’s Forecast Team was integral in helping select Shida as the site of the inaugural surfing event here’s what was discovered through our research.