The Pacific Ocean closes on Aug 21, 4pm in Japan
6pm Kujukurihama ((ä¹åä¹é‡Œæµœ) 99-league beach) Japan
In an effort the avoid the endless silly rules and 23,000 visitors in what I previously described in my report 
Japanese joke pools by going to Kujukurihama, Pacific side of north Chiba to enjoy the longest beach of Japan for the a few days. I arrived at the beach at 4pm and and there were only a dozen people for as far as I could see down the “99 League” (60km) beach.
I was just getting into the water when the arse-reaming loudspeakers started booming crappy Japanese music and announcements. I dove under 1-2m breakers to beat the noise pollution .
I was off-shore a couple hundred meters when real cute girl in matching orange tank suit and longboard finally caught up to me. Hot damn, I thought scored…. until I realized she was a lifeguard.
She started whining to me about the fact that the, “beach ‘closes’ at 4pm.”
I sputtered, “Say what?! The Pacific ocean closes at 4pm on the hottest day of the summer. You’re joking right?”
— “No sir, this the last day for swimming.”
I quip that, “I’m not swimming–I’m 
pull-buoy surfing”and quickly caught a wave to show her my invented-on-the-spot surfing style since surfing is always legal but swimming isn’t (go figure, this is Japan).
Long-story-short: It took six life guards to “rescue” me, hee, hee.
Best line: “Really? I wanna see where you keep a badge and gun in that Speedo swimsuit.”
Epilogue: At 5:15 the next morning—Monday August 22—I found a sign saying, “No swimming — Beach is closed for the END of the season.”
Since I can claim that I cannot read Japanese signs, I found the water was nice, hee, hee.
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