Private Public Beach

The view of the ocean on the away to Youka Public Beach, about 15 minutes' walk from Futomi Station in Chiba's Boso Peninsula.

To get to the actual beach, you have to go down this suspicious-looking path...

 

And go down this incredibly rickety set of stairs. If too many people used this at once, it would definitely break. You would not want to land on the rocks below.

And then, the beach. This must be a locals-only place because the afternoon I was there, the only people I saw within 200 meters of this place were locals. I had the beach to myself.

Hawks flying above, a welcome reprieve from crows.