Shonan Quiz

Clear the Shonan Local Quiz and earn the Shonan Local title. Want to know Shonan even better, or already confident? The tougher courses are next.

Ask five people where Shonan begins and ends, and you may get five different answers. This quiz takes the coast on its own terms, spanning Fujisawa, Chigasaki, Hiratsuka, Oiso, and Samukawa, with Enoshima at the center: a tethered island reached by bridge, home to Enoshima Shrine, and served by Katase-Enoshima Station with its facade styled after the mythical Dragon Palace. Inland, the old Tokaido post towns and the Shonan Hiratsuka Tanabata Festival carry other threads of the region's story, and a stone at Shigitatsu-an in Oiso preserves a clue to where the word Shonan itself came from. The daily challenge offers a first look at what this stretch of coast can ask of you.