Shichirigahama Surf Photo by Steve marriott

Lat Long: 35.30° N 139.51° E

Issued: 2 pm 22 Sep 2026 (local time)

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Today's Shichirigahama sea temperature is

25.1°C

Shichirigahama surf forecast is for near shore open water. Breaking waves will often be smaller at less exposed spots.

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3 hours earlier	Peak Waves	Wind	Wind Waves	Swell 1	Swell 2	3 hours later
	SSE	NNE	NNE	SSE	E
	17 s	off	6 s	17 s	12 s

Open ocean wave model on 25 September at 3 pm

Forecast wind and swell just offshore from Shichirigahama around the time the photo was taken

Image captured 2 hours and 43 minutes after low water (rising ordinary tide). Tide height was 1.1m (3.5 ft). Range 1.66m (5.4 ft). Toggle tide graph

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Shichirigahama Surf Photo: 'classic right' by Steve marriott

Sweet rights and lefts breaking over a sand rock reef

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User: Steve marriott (1 photo)

Country: Japan (83 photos)

Photo taken at: 2:19 pm 25 Sep 2010

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Shichirigahama is the name, not shi-chi-ga-hama. Shichi means "seven" in Japanese. "Ri" is a measurement of length, roughly translated as a "league", as in 20000 leagues under the sea. Hama means beach. So "ShichiRI ga Hama means "Seven League Beach" in English. I should know because I lived and surfed there every day there was waves from 1987-1995. My wife is Japanese, my daughter is Japanese and I am fluent and literate in Japanese. By the way, technically, this wave looks like Minegahama which is a couple of hundred yards west of "Shichiri". It's a little horseshoe reef that only holds swell up to about 4 feet before it closes out. When the crowds got bad I pulled out my 9' Mabo Royal and sent them home. Then got back on a short board.