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thumb|275px|View of Yuigahama and surrounding area, 2025 is a beach near Kamakura, a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The relation between the beach and its neighboring areas is complex. Although Yuigahama is legally the entire 3.2 km beach that goes from Inamuragasaki, which separates it from Shichirigahama, to Zaimokuza's Iijima cape, which separates it from Kotsubo and the Miura Peninsula, the name is customarily used to indicate the portion west of the Namerigawa river, while the eastern half is called . This is the reason why, although the beach gives its name to only the west pa

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Official name
由比ヶ浜
Country
Japan
Located in
Kamakura
Population
4624
Area
63
Elevation
0
Official website
yuigahama.sos.gr.jp/en
Image
230128 Yuigahama Kamakura Kanagawa pref Japan02s3.jpg
Length
1
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Commons category
Yuigahama
postal code
248-0014
inception
1964-10-01
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thumb|275px|View of Yuigahama and surrounding area, 2025 is a beach near Kamakura, a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The relation between the beach and its neighboring areas is complex. Although Yuigahama is legally the entire 3.2 km beach that goes from Inamuragasaki, which separates it from Shichirigahama, to Zaimokuza's Iijima cape, which separates it from Kotsubo and the Miura Peninsula, the name is customarily used to indicate the portion west of the Namerigawa river, while the eastern half is called . This is the reason why, although the beach gives its name to only the west part of the beachside community, traces of the name Yuigahama can be found also in Zaimokuza (for example in Moto Hachiman's official name, Yui Wakamiya). The center of Yuigahama came legally into being between 1964 and 1965 and was named after the beach. Today's Yuigahama was until then divided between Zaimokuza, Ōmachi, and Hase.

There are different theories about the origin of the name. According to one it derives from an earlier one, . According to another it derives from the presence of a cooperative (). The name Yui itself has been written in various ways, among them 由井 and 湯井.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yuigahama” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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