In the tidal flats of Nemuro City, Hokkaido, a conventional hand-digging surf clam fishing heralds the arrival of spring.
Around Shunkunitai on the Nemuro Peninsula, a big tidal flat kinds within the shallow sea, so yearly round this time when there is no such thing as a drift ice or ice on the ocean floor, fishing for surf clams by hand-digging begins within the quaint means.
On the 4th, about 10 fishermen went out to the tidal flats in the course of the morning low tide.