Awaiura Beach
Wakago · Niijima, Tokyo Islands, Japan · Beach break
Local time — · Sunrise 06:11 · Sunset 16:44
Reading the ocean.
SWELLRADAR is requesting a verified marine run for Awaiura Beach.
Spot intelligence.
Awaiura is the Wakago cove on northeastern Niijima, not Habushiura or nearby Okuiso. Official guidance describes a particularly hollow wave and deteriorating shape when direct swell becomes too large. Intermediate is the minimum for independent recommendations; the local guide explicitly discourages beginners. The tourism office distinguishes permitted surfing/bodyboarding from prohibited bathing and reports no August lifeguard patrol. Check current signs and conditions locally.
Profile source · Niijima village · original surfing guide, Awaiura section 6Profile sources & limits
Reviewed 23 Oct 2026 · not observation-validated
Published sources reviewed by SWELLRADAR, not validation against measured breaking waves. Directional references are qualitative ranking inputs, not surveyed optima or complete acceptance windows. The inherited generic 0.6–3.0 m offshore-model band remains unchanged and unvalidated: not a measured local working range, safe learner range or wave-face conversion. Original approximate map pins and location sources remain. Explicit six-kilometre sea requests do not survey takeoffs, depth, currents, access or provider-snapped cells. Niijima village's own section 6 identifies the eastern cove, hollow breaking character, right-hand setup on wrapping southerly swell and independent W/SW wind. S/180° is our coarse interpretation of its southern-side wrapping path, not a straight-line coastal normal, broad acceptance sector or measured refraction factor. SurfRide's original guide supplies an explicit Intermediate-plus grade, powerful-wave beginner warning and sand-plus-reef bottom; parts of its identity and wind wording overlap official descriptions and are not counted as independent field measurements. The official tourism office corroborates the Wakago identity and distinguishes surfing permission from bathing prohibition; this is a dated published statement, not a current safety clearance, rescue guarantee or legal advice. No local tide optimum was established: no phase/motion bonus, preferred window or adaptive fallback. The representative marine request is six kilometres east into open water, separately from the qualitative S wrapping-swell reference, not a surveyed takeoff.
- Niijima village · original surfing guide, Awaiura section 6
Eastern cove, hollow breaking character, wrapping southerly swell/right-hand setup, direct-swell excess warning and independently stated W/SW wind; not the neighbouring Okuiso left.
- Niijima tourist office · own Awaiura Beach listing
Exact Wakago46 beach identity, surfing/bodyboarding versus bathing prohibition and no August lifeguard patrol in its published listing; not a promise of present staffing or unchanged rules.
- SurfRide · original Awaiura spot guide
Explicit Intermediate-plus grade and beginner-avoidance warning for powerful hollow waves, sand/reef bottom and W wind. Its remote tide table is not spot-specific tide-response calibration.
Source-informed axes
Swell axis S · 180°
Offshore wind from W · Intermediate profile
Wave
Hollow cove peaks · right-hand setup reported
Sand with reef sections · not surveyed
Swell window
S · coarse interpretation of published wrapping path
0.6–3.0 m offshore ranking band
Clean wind
W · one published reference within W/SW guidance
Applied to wind scoring
Tide window
Local bank and reef response · unverified
No tide phase affects scoring
Field guide
Read the break.
Character · setup · local read
Field guide
Read the break.
Character
01Awaiura Beach is defined by hollow cove peaks · right-hand setup reported over sand with reef sections · not surveyed. The shape can change with swell angle, period and the active section, so the live score should always be paired with a visual check from shore.
Best setup
02S · coarse interpretation of published wrapping path swell, w · one published reference within w/sw guidance and local bank and reef response · unverified form the profile baseline. SWELLRADAR retains 0.6–3.0 m as an offshore-model ranking band, not a measured local surf limit or a breaking-wave prediction.
Lineup read
03Choose a peak that matches your experience and reassess it as tide and crowd change. Pay particular attention to powerful hollow shorebreak, reef sections beneath changing sand, swimming prohibited; no august lifeguard patrol reported. Local signs and advice always take priority.
Know before you paddle
Live conditions and local advice always override this profile.
Optional community layerRecent surfer reportsVoluntary and potentially incomplete. Not used for the forecast or Surf Score.
The break
Beach break
Intermediate. Works best with S · coarse interpretation of published wrapping path swell.
Timing
W · one published reference within W/SW guidance
Local bank and reef response · unverified. Re-check local observations and the lineup before you paddle out.
Data note
Model data unavailable
SWELLRADAR withholds numerical conditions, scores and surf windows until a quality-checked marine forecast is available.