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Japan, Niigata

Sado

Sawada beach, Kawaharada

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea glassSea glass
Sea potterySea pottery
GoldGold

Also reported: sakura shells.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS (Public domain), BLM Alaska (Public domain).

Why this spot

Town-front beach on Mano Bay below Kawaharada, a merchant town of gold-rush Sado on the kitamaebune coastal shipping run

Resident's blog records frosted sea glass and sakura shells below the town seawall steps

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Slippery stone seawall steps
winter Japan Sea swells

Keep exploring nearby

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