Hamasakishita

Hamasakishita is a sheltered shore dive site on the Tateyama waterfront, a gently sloping sand and rubble bottom from 3 to 18 metres that functions as prime nursery habitat for juvenile fish and invertebrates. The site is renowned for the density and variety of frogfish species found on sponges and encrusted boulders across the shallows, with painted, warty, and hairy frogfish all recorded in a single dive on good days. Ghost pipefish appear seasonally in the seagrass patches, and the night dive reveals an entirely different community including spider crabs, flatworms, and feeding cephalopods. The sheltered bay position makes this a reliable dive in almost any weather.