“Many choose to live in the northern part of Hakodate for convenience when it comes to travel and amenities,” he says. I would be too busy working to try things out.” His wife, Noriko, a Hakodate local, nods. Surf City Miyazaki’s Keishi Watanabe Lounge at Surf City MiyazakiBack in the mid-1990s, Keishi Watanabe was a twenty-something living in Osaka when he spotted US professional surfer Kelly Slater on a late-night Kansai TV broadcast. The setting was a small town by the name of Aoshima, about a 20-minute drive south of Miyazaki city. I can live comfortably, surf and meet some wonderful people.”It’s an outlook that is shared by second-generation professional surfer Taishi Kawabata of surf shop Killer Surf Miyazaki.