The tricolour is flying once again over the Kamakura waterfront. The annual invasion has begun. Little Thailand is back on Yuigahama Beach.
That means plenty of Singha beer, plenty of beach food, plenty of cheerful smiles.
Here's a piece I wrote a few years back in my Japan Times column…
Little has changed, except that in place of the Nepalese food outlet, we now have a multi-ethnic community of stalls, including Balinese, Brazilian, Spanish and even Dubai (complete with shisha water pipe). The beach is nothing if not polycultural.
Today is Umi-no-hi (aka Marine Day), a national holiday in Japan — and the beach is packed. And why not? When it gets this hot (33 degrees in the shade), who wants to stay in the city?
