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Other news reports are saying Kamakura was down only -9% this year, but on the other hand the picked up Otodama live house which Zushi nixed.

I am not a lawyer either, but as far as I know there is no law against drinking alcoholic beverages in public in Japan. In Zushi, the mayor and some senators passed ordinances - not laws - to say no drinking outside umi no ie, no tattoos. They did this to placate retirees who want to turn Zushi into a retirement home.

At first, cops handed out memos, but they even gave that up since people ignored them. There is no problem drinking on Zushi beach anywhere you like - there is no penalty, and nobody even asks you to stop. And by mid-summer people did not bother to cover up tattoos either. In this respect, it did not seem different from any other summer, other than the fact that it seemed like there were half as many visitors. The biggest downer is that the umi no ie are only open until 6:30pm and they do not play live music. This is a tragedy - a couple of years ago I just happened to be at an umi no ie on a weeknight and Leyona was playing - just a quiet set with a couple of instruments and you could not even hear it on the beach, so it certainly was not harming any fuddy-duddies in Zushi, and it was great.

I saw a couple of posts about Zushi being a "dirty beach". Zushi is quite clean, but it is not a white sand beach. If you think it is dirty please substantiate your claim.

Don't give up on Zushi beach yet! These rules could change if there is a change in political office.

@wipeout - kate was in the #1 spot in the UK charts at age 19 performing a song she had written when she was 16. She was the first female vocalist to hit #1 in UK with self-written music. You may not like her, but her art is genius and extremely unique. Bob Marley wrote some nice tunes but the foundation for his music emerged in the 60s when he was a guest singer for the likes of the Skatalites.