Japan 4 days suggestion (off beaten track)

Dear all,

i will have 4 free days end of April, which i would like to spend to Japan (I have visited all the big cities). My starting and ending point is tokyo. Unfortunatelly those 5 days are exactly on the golden week, therefore many places are fully booked.

I would like to go swr that is not so touristic (i dont know if this is possible this week) and traditional japanese. I would consider a nice fish town, some people suggested Kamakura (anything similar?) but i am ok if this is not close to Tokyo. Or sth on the mountains like Magome-Tsumago - any place similar but not popular?
I cannot drive and preferably i would like go surfing if i choose a place near the sea.

Thank you in advance!

Onsen in Aomori? Walking the 34 Kannon Temples Pilgrimage in Chichibu?

Kamakura is pretty touristic, IMO :-)

Looks at a map. Anywhere between Hiroshima and Tokyo you can omit. Try outside this area.

Many possibilities:
- Sado island
- Shikoku (with Naoshima and Teshima or w/o)
- Hagi , Matsue....
- Aomori or Akita
- Hokkaido
- Tono valley and Hiraizumi
- Yamadera
....

Enjoy your trip to Japan!

Where are you coming from?
If you can fly to KIX (or take an internal flight there from Tokyo), you could spend 4 very nice days in the Wakayama/Kii peninsula area, perhaps?
We�fve just come back from there and there was loads to do, plenty of variety, great food and bathing, good walks and scenery on the Kumano Kodo, etc

Thank you all!

Anything more particular like a specific seaside traditional fish village?

Kii sounds interesting... Can i move easily there without a car?

Trains run along the entire Kii Peninsula coast, so you can explore from the west side (Osaka) or the east side (Nagoya). If you want to explore smaller towns (like Kii Katsu-ura) along the coast, the local trains run infrequently and there are also buses which also run infrequently that lets you explore places between train stations (like Nachi Falls). You can also hike sections of the Kumano Kodo trail. I enjoyed doing both. Expect some crowd during the golden week and you cannot avoid it no matter where you go, so just accept it and perhaps enjoy meeting new people.

https://www.japan-guide.com/community/jioruji/report-1452
https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e4952.html

If it is about fishing villages, Sado island also would tick the box. Shinkansen to Niigata and then ferry to the island. On the island you can move around with busses, tours or bicycle.

Have you considered Oarai in Ibaraki? I've never been there, but it just dawned on me, and when I Googled, sure enough a blogger had written that there are many unknown surf spots there. The downside is that the sea is cold, it's not easily accessible compared to Shonan (Kamakura area) or Chiba, and there is few information. If you scroll down to the middle of the second link, you will find maps of the surf spots.
http://www.oarai-info.jp/sightseeing/index.htm
http://thaisbaby.com/?p=7357