Kanagawa · Updated: 2026-10-02
Around Oiso Station (大磯駅) in Kanagawa there are 16 walking spots, from a tea shop and a wine diner to a beach, a fishing port and a hilltop lookout. CANCAN is 2 minutes on foot, TE HANDEL platform 3 minutes, Oiso Beach 7 minutes, Oiso Port 11 minutes and Shonandaira 17 minutes, so sea and hill fit into one day — every walking time below is measured from Oiso Station. Traces of the Meiji-era villa district and small shops handling local food stand in the same town.
This guide covers 16 walking spots; 10 of them are an average 9-minute walk from the nearest station (2–18 min).
Counted from zorozoro listings when this page was generated. Walking minutes are estimates: straight-line distance to the nearest station × 1.3, at 80 m per minute.
One possible order: Jibaya Hokkori and TE HANDEL platform by the station (3 minutes) → Oiso Inoue Kamaboko Shop and Oiso Beach (7 minutes) → Oiso Port (11 minutes) → the Nishi-Koiso group of the Former Yoshida Shigeru Residence, Shonan Soy Studio and The Farm Stand You Can Eat At (18 minutes) → maru Shoya (11 minutes) → Shonandaira (17 minutes) toward evening. Oiso Long Beach and the Oiso Prince Hotel Tennis Courts sit on the Kokufu-Hongo side; for meals, Udon AGATA or Wadokoro Ikkyo at lunch and CANCAN or Cafe L'eau at night.
A tea shop a 3-minute walk away. The owner also runs TANK, a cafe and gallery elsewhere in Oiso. Open 10:00–17:00, closed on Sundays.
A souvenir shop 3 minutes on foot, handling local Oiso products, with regional produce and processed foods on the shelves. Open 10:00–20:00, Sundays until 18:00, closed on Wednesdays.
A kamaboko (fish cake) shop, a 7-minute walk. It opens early, 08:30–17:00, and closes on Wednesdays.
A 7-minute walk from the station. Japan's sea-bathing culture is said to have begun here in 1885, when the military doctor Matsumoto Jun opened a bathing beach after noting the benefits of seawater. Ito Hirobumi, Okuma Shigenobu and Yoshida Shigeru later built villas here, and the shoreline still keeps a calm air.
A port 11 minutes on foot, where fresh local fish and sea fishing are the draw. On the first Saturday of each month a fish morning market runs 9:00–11:00, and you can buy a whole fish and fillet it yourself.
A reconstruction of former prime minister Yoshida Shigeru's house, inside the prefectural Oiso Joyama Park. Open 09:00–16:30 with last entry at 16:00, closed on Mondays.
An old-house laboratory that transforms soybeans in many ways, with a cafe that looks into the production floor. It opens only Thursday to Saturday, 11:00–17:30, and closes Sunday to Wednesday and on public holidays.
A farm stand 18 minutes on foot where the harvested vegetables can be eaten on the spot. Open 11:30–14:00 Wednesday to Friday and 08:30–14:00 on Saturdays, closed Sunday to Tuesday; direct sales run on Saturdays only.
A grilled rice ball shop in Higashi-Koiso, 11 minutes on foot, where the yaki-musubi sometimes appears in a salt version. Open 10:00–17:00, closed on Wednesdays, Sundays and public holidays.
A hill of about 180 m straddling Hiratsuka and Oiso, a 17-minute walk. Its 360-degree panorama takes in Mt. Fuji and Sagami Bay, and the night view after sunset is beautiful too.
An udon shop run by an owner born in 1997, serving hand-cut udon at lunch only, 11:00–14:30. Closed on Thursdays, with occasional irregular closures.
A kappo restaurant in Karagahara, Hiratsuka, founded in 1997 by the owner Ozaki Kyoji. Dashi-forward cooking is its strength, and the wild yellowtail ara-ni is simmered for four days until even the bones can be eaten. Open 11:30–21:00, closed on Mondays; Tuesday to Thursday evenings are by reservation.
A cafe 7 minutes on foot where sunlight pours through large windows. It serves course meals made with local ingredients and natural wine, and also sells original apparel, secondhand clothes and spices. Open 11:30–20:30, dinner only from 16:00 on Wednesdays, closed on Sundays.
A wine diner 2 minutes from the station, built on the bounty of the sea and the land. Open 17:00–23:00 Monday and Wednesday to Friday, 17:00–22:00 on Saturdays and 14:00–19:00 on Sundays, closed on Tuesdays.
An outdoor pool opened in 1957, born from Tsutsumi Yoshiaki's student-days idea of a giant pool along the coast. Known as the stage of the TV swimming show Geinojin Suiei Taikai, it has symbolised resort culture together with the adjacent Oiso Prince Hotel; the sea is right there, but the pool is the lead.
The tennis courts of the Oiso Prince Hotel, with sand-filled artificial grass. Open 09:00–18:00 on weekdays and 08:00–18:00 on Saturdays and Sundays, open every day.
Wednesday closes Oiso Inoue Kamaboko Shop, Jibaya Hokkori, maru Shoya and Shonan Soy Studio, and Sunday closes TE HANDEL platform and Cafe L'eau. Check the closing days before you leave the station and the order above holds together.