Japan Surf

Detailed Japan surf forecast maps and the latest eyeball surf report from local surfers in the region. Near-shore swell is shown on the map together with the surf forecast rating for spots in Japan. Find the best places to surf in offshore conditions by selecting the wind option on the forecast map. Windsurfers and kite surfers can also use this option to find more favorable cross-shore conditions in Japan. Our local Wavefinder indicates where some of the best conditions are likely to be found in Japan over the next 7 days. Surf photos from Japan and reviews of the best spots and surfing conditions have been provided by local surfers.

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Japan Wavefinder

Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Wed	Thursday 12			Friday 13			Saturday 14			Sunday 15			Monday 16			Tuesday 17			Wednesday 18
	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night
Best forecast wave conditions in Japan	Kaiser's (Hachijojima Island) Izu Islands	Susuki Shizuoka	Big Ben Chiba	Kangjeong (Jejudo Island) South Korea	Akabane Long Beach Shizuoka	Kangjeong (Jejudo Island) South Korea	Golfcourse Kyu Shu	Cape Toi Kyu Shu	Cape Toi Kyu Shu	Amatu Chiba	Castles Okinawa	Kaiser's (Hachijojima Island) Izu Islands	Cape Toi Kyu Shu	Kaiser's (Hachijojima Island) Izu Islands	Kaiser's (Hachijojima Island) Izu Islands	Aoura Kyu Shu	Castles Okinawa	Amatu Chiba	Amatu Chiba	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach (Tokyo 2020) Chiba	Katahama Shizuoka
Rating	4	2	4	2	2	2	4	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	5	4	4	4	4	3	3	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.1 ENE	0.4 E	1.3 ENE	0.4 ENE	0.5 E	1.7 ENE	2.2 NE	3.0 ENE	3.0 ENE	1.9 ENE	3.0 ENE	2.5 ENE	2.0 E	2.5 ENE	2.5 ENE	1.0 E	2.0 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.7 E	1.5 E	1.5 E	0.8 E
Period(s) (?)	13	15	14	5	14	7	8	11	12	16	15	17	12	16	15	16	16	14	14	13	13	12
Energy(?)	796	73	1147	13	132	294	900	2703	4622	2445	4002	4904	1999	3655	3692	797	1899	1439	1136	773	728	203
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	cross- on	cross	off	off	off	cross	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross	off	cross	cross- on	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross
High Tide / height (m)		8:05AM 1.11			4:01AM 1.13			3:58AM 1.29	2:38PM 1.17		3:47AM 1.25	3:10PM 1.24		9:55AM 2.28			10:21AM 2.39		10:14PM 2.13	7:33AM 0.58
Low Tide / height (m)			5:05PM 0.52				7:10PM 0.34	9:49AM 0.86		9:19PM 0.30	9:13AM 0.83		10:00PM 0.18	3:16AM 0.49	4:08PM 0.76	10:35PM 0.10	3:57AM 0.33	4:36PM 0.58			1:30PM 0.00	12:09AM 0.25
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	rain shwrs	clear	some clouds	clear	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	mod. rain
Rain (mm)	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10
High °C	11	9	10	9	8	10	7	9	12	9	18	13	14	14	15	14	18	13	12	14	14	13
Low °C	11	7	9	8	6	10	3	6	11	8	16	13	12	14	14	14	18	13	10	11	14	12
Chill °C (?)	10	9	8	7	5	7	2	8	12	6	18	12	14	13	14	14	18	12	12	14	13	13
Sunrise	-	6:03	-	-	6:05	-	-	6:26	-	-	6:39	-	-	5:50	-	-	6:37	-	-	5:45	-	-
Sunset	-	-	5:43	-	-	6:38	-	-	6:21	-	-	5:46	-	-	5:47	-	-	5:46	-	-	5:47	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.5 NE	0.5 E	1.3 ENE	0.4 ENE	0.7 ESE	0.3 NW	0.6 E	3.0 ENE	3.0 ENE	1.9 ENE	3.0 ENE	2.5 ENE	2.0 E	2.5 ENE	2.5 ENE	1.0 E	2.0 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.7 E	1.5 E	1.5 E	0.8 E
Period (s)	10	12	12	5	6	5	14	11	12	16	15	17	12	16	15	10	16	14	14	13	13	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.1 ENE	0.4 E	1.3 ENE	0.1 SE	0.5 E	-	0.3 E	0.9 ENE	2.1 E	1.5 SE	0.5 N	2.0 E	1.3 ENE	1.4 ESE	1.6 E	1.0 E	-	1.1 E	0.5 E	0.3 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.3 SSE
Period (s)	13	15	14	8	14	-	19	17	14	10	8	10	16	10	13	16	-	13	12	4	5	5
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.4 E	-	0.6 NW	0.5 NW	1.7 ENE	2.2 NE	1.6 NNE	1.8 NNE	1.2 NE	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 N	-	-	-	-	0.6 SSW	0.7 S
Period (s)	-	4	-	6	4	7	8	8	7	6	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	3	5

	Wed		Thursday 12								Friday 13								Saturday 14
	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Japan	Onjuku Chiba	Amatu Chiba	Izumi Chiba	Big Ben Chiba	Big Ben Chiba	Kaiser's (Hachijojima Island) Izu Islands	Amatu Chiba	Susuki Shizuoka	Susuki Shizuoka	Akabane Long Beach Shizuoka	Big Ben Chiba	Akabane Long Beach Shizuoka	Akabane Long Beach Shizuoka	Kangjeong (Jejudo Island) South Korea	Kangjeong (Jejudo Island) South Korea	Akabane Long Beach Shizuoka	Kangjeong (Jejudo Island) South Korea	Kangjeong (Jejudo Island) South Korea	Kangjeong (Jejudo Island) South Korea	Busan (Haeundae Beach) South Korea	Busan (Haeundae Beach) South Korea	Golfcourse Kyu Shu
Rating	2	4	4	3	4	4	4	2	2	1	4	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.4 ENE	1.8 ENE	1.4 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.4 ENE	1.2 E	0.7 E	0.7 E	0.5 E	1.9 ENE	0.5 E	0.5 E	1.5 ENE	1.5 ENE	1.1 ESE	1.8 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.7 ENE	1.7 ENE	1.9 NE	2.2 E
Period(s) (?)	10	12	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	7	7	7	8	8	8	8	8	10
Energy(?)	392	1547	1003	964	1604	1197	1100	239	207	104	2310	105	113	209	215	248	353	297	348	354	789	1389
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	low	low-flow	mid-flow	mid-flow	high-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)						8:14AM 1.08							4:07AM 1.16	8:10AM 1.85				6:28PM 1.40			4:20AM 0.39
Low Tide / height (m)	3:31PM 0.49									6:21PM 0.51
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	8	7	7	6	5	11	9	10	10	10	7	7	6	8	10	10	10	9	9	6	5	5
Chill °C (?)	5	4	4	3	2	9	7	8	9	8	4	4	2	5	8	8	7	6	6	3	2	3
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	5:54	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:48	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:26
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:51	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:55	6:38	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.4 ENE	1.5 ENE	1.4 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.6 NE	1.3 ENE	0.7 E	0.7 E	0.5 E	1.9 ENE	0.5 E	0.5 E	0.4 NW	0.3 NW	1.1 ESE	0.3 NW	0.3 NW	0.2 WNW	-	1.6 ENE	2.2 E
Period (s)	10	12	13	14	14	10	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	6	6	7	5	5	5	-	8	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	1.4 ENE	1.2 E	0.6 E	0.4 E	0.4 E	0.1 SE	0.3 E	0.4 ESE	-	-	0.4 ESE	-	0.1 E	-	-	-	0.7 E
Period (s)	-	12	12	12	11	14	14	5	5	5	11	5	4	-	-	17	-	9	-	-	-	18
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	1.8 ENE	1.4 NE	-	1.6 NE	-	-	0.8 ENE	0.6 ENE	-	1.8 NE	0.5 NW	0.5 NW	1.5 ENE	1.5 ENE	0.4 NW	1.8 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.7 ENE	1.7 ENE	1.9 NE	2.1 NNE
Period (s)	-	12	9	-	11	-	-	5	5	-	12	3	4	7	7	4	8	8	8	8	8	7

	Wednesday 11	Thursday 12
	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Japan	Onjuku Chiba	Amatu Chiba	Izumi Chiba	Big Ben Chiba	Big Ben Chiba	Kaiser's (Hachijojima Island) Izu Islands	Amatu Chiba	Susuki Shizuoka	Susuki Shizuoka	Akabane Long Beach Shizuoka	Big Ben Chiba	Akabane Long Beach Shizuoka	Akabane Long Beach Shizuoka	Kangjeong (Jejudo Island) South Korea	Kangjeong (Jejudo Island) South Korea	Akabane Long Beach Shizuoka	Kangjeong (Jejudo Island) South Korea	Kangjeong (Jejudo Island) South Korea	Kangjeong (Jejudo Island) South Korea	Busan (Haeundae Beach) South Korea	Busan (Haeundae Beach) South Korea	Golfcourse Kyu Shu
Rating	2	4	4	3	4	4	4	2	2	1	4	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.5 ENE	1.5 ENE	1.4 ENE	1.5 ENE	1.8 ENE	1.8 NE	1.8 ENE	0.6 E	0.6 E	0.3 E	1.9 ENE	0.4 ESE	0.5 E	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.5 E	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	-	-	0.6 E
Period(s) (?)	10	11	10	11	12	10	12	13	13	11	13	13	13	9	9	14	9	9	9	-	-	11
Energy(?)	622	510	392	558	1506	783	1579	130	130	44	2063	66	97	3	3	98	3	3	3	0	0	165
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross	cross	cross	cross	on	cross- off	glass	glass	off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)
Low Tide / height (m)	3:31PM 0.49
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	rain shwrs	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	cloudy	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	8	8	8	8	8	11	7	9	8	6	7	5	5	8	8	4	8	9	10	8	9	12
Chill °C (?)	6	6	5	6	6	10	4	9	8	2	5	0	0	6	6	-1	6	7	9	5	6	10
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:07	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	5:42	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.5 ENE	1.5 ENE	1.4 ENE	1.5 ENE	1.5 ENE	1.8 NE	1.5 ENE	0.6 E	0.6 E	0.3 E	1.6 ENE	0.4 ESE	0.5 E	0.3 NW	0.3 NW	0.5 E	0.3 NW	0.3 NW	0.3 NW	-	-	0.6 E
Period (s)	10	11	10	11	12	10	12	13	13	11	14	13	13	4	4	14	5	5	5	-	-	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.9 ENE	0.1 S	-	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.6 E	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.1 S	0.3 E	0.1 S	0.2 E	0.2 E	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.2 E	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	-	-	0.3 E
Period (s)	11	12	-	12	12	15	12	9	9	5	12	5	5	9	9	5	9	9	9	-	-	15
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	1.8 ENE	-	1.8 ENE	0.2 W	0.2 W	0.6 NW	1.9 ENE	0.7 NW	0.7 NW	-	0.3 NNE	0.7 NW	-	-	-	0.7 NE	0.7 NE	0.8 NE
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	12	-	12	3	3	4	13	4	4	-	3	4	-	-	-	4	4	5

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