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Come experience the wide variety of diving in Japan

The fascinating country of Japan offers a colder climate in the north and a warmer, milder climate in the south. Thanks to this variation, weather and water temperature can vary significantly from region to region. As a result, each area has its own unique ecosystem, offering a wide variety of scuba dives, from ice diving in Hokkaido to tropical diving in Okinawa. You can also explore fantastic freshwater environments like lakes and rivers filled with caves and shipwrecks. Japan is famous for its four distinct seasons on land, and divers can also experience these seasons underwater.

Atami

This is a historic dive site that represents Higashi-Izu. It can be accessed from the Tokyo area in about 2 hours, and it is also possible to take a day trip, making it a popular spot, especially among Kanto divers.

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Kushimoto

Kushimoto, the southernmost town on Honshu, is strongly influenced by the Kuroshio Current, and has a large variety of tropical fish from Okinawa and Izu, making it one of the top fishing areas in Japan.

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Osezaki Beach

Osezaki is one of the most famous dives sites in Japan. It is a cape that juts out into Suruga Bay and done as a beach dive. There are two dive options, one on the bayside of the cape and the other on the open seaside, both of which are shallow rocky areas when you descend and sandy areas when you go offshore.

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Budaine

There are a number of diving spots around Kamikimoto Island, an uninhabited island off the coast of Shimoda. It is a 20-minute boat ride from the harbor to the dive site. It is a popular spot for hammerhead sharks to appear from summer to autumn when the Kuroshio Current approaches the Izu Peninsula.

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Izu Oceanic Park

Izu Oceanic Park is the most popular dive site in Higashi-Izu. The facilities are good and there is a pool. In the summer, the area is crowded with beachgoers and ordinary people who use the pool.

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Hatsushima Island

It is the only inhabited remote island in Shizuoka Prefecture, about 10 km off the coast of Atami, which can be reached in 30 minutes by ferry. After crossing the island, you can go beach diving or boat diving.

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Ito

Ito is a relatively new point located in Tateyama, Boso Peninsula, Chiba Prefecture. You’ll see baited sharks and stingrays, as well as large groupers. Boat diving only. There are buoys at either end of a large, narrow root, and depending on the current, the fish will enter from one buoy and rise from the other.

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Tago

There are six boat points in the open sea and four in the bay at Tago. There is also one beach. At the point in the bay, there is a clump of Green Turtle Coral that looks like Okinawa, and much tropical small fish can be seen around it.

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Motosuko Lake

Lake Motosu is one of the Fuji Five Lakes and is the deepest of the five with a maximum water depth of 122 meters. The altitude is about 900 meters, and the diving is done using altitude diving procedures. It is the most popular freshwater diving spot in Kanto.

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Koganezaki

Located in Koganezaki Park, you can enjoy various flowers depending on the season, and entry/exit is very easy to do due to the ramps and handrails. When you enter, you’ll see a wide range of gorotas up to a few meters deep, and beyond that, you’ll see an entire surface of the sand.

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Featured Dive Destinations

Hokkaidō

Scuba diving in Hokkaido is not for the faint of heart, however, as the water is either cold or frozen, and a dry suit will be needed.

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Kyushu

Diving in Kyushu is full of amazing marine life.

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Shikoku

Scuba diving in the Shikoku region is possible year-round, with most dive sites less than a 15-minute boat ride away.

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Tohoku

Plankton abounds where the cold and warm currents collide in the waters off Tohoku, making it one of the best fishing grounds in Japan.

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Boso Peninsula

Boso Peninsula is famous for its long, eastern sandy beaches, great waves, and easy access from Tokyo, also aoffering excellent diving.

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Izu Peninsula

With a wide variety of diving including caves and wrecks, the Izu Peninsula offers some of the most popular sites and best diving in Japan.

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Honshu

Diving in Honshu offers a variety of sites be it ocean, river, or lake.

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Okinawa

Okinawa diving and snorkeling offer visitors a stunning glimpse into an underwater paradise full of lively coral reefs teeming with tropical fish.

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Southern Kyushu

The Satsunan Islands are scattered from Kagoshima south to Okinawa and is home to some of the best diving in Japan.

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Chubut

Located in central Argentina, the Chubut Province is home to the country’s highest concentration of dive sites.

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