At the beach in Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture, the first swim of the New Year was held in the hope of good health for the year.
The first swim at Ogigahama Beach in Tanabe City is held on January 2nd every year by the local swimming association so that you can spend a new year in good health by getting into the cold winter sea and strengthening your body. doing.
On the 2nd, about 100 people aged 3 to 73 gathered on the sandy beach, did some preparatory exercises, and then went into the sea all at once, yelling "I'm going".
In Tanabe City on the 2nd, the temperature at 10 am was 6 degrees Celsius and the water temperature was 17 degrees Celsius, which was about the same as normal, and the participants enjoyed their first swim by sprinkling water.
In order to prevent the infection of the new coronavirus, measures have been taken such as increasing the number of "bonfires" that warm the body after rising from the sea to four places, which is twice as many as usual, to prevent it from becoming dense. It was.
A junior high school boy from Kamitonda Town, Wakayama Prefecture, said, "The sea was cold, but I cleaned it up so as not to lose to Corona."
Also, a local 70-year-old man said, "Last year I couldn't dissipate energy in the corona, so it was nice to be in the ocean."