La Bomba Kanagawa

Learn to Dive in Sagamihara

La Bomba Kanagawa is a scuba diving shop in Sagamihara City, and its whole reason for being is simple: teaching people to dive in a fun, friendly atmosphere. If you have never breathed underwater before, this is a shop built around that first moment — with lessons the team describes as both enjoyable and thorough.

Trial diving comes in two flavours. There is a pool option, easygoing and low-pressure, and a sea option that takes you out to the waters of Izu and Manazuru. From there, the path continues to full certification: La Bomba is a PADI Dive Center with one PADI instructor on staff, offering PADI scuba diving courses, PADI First Aid — EFR, and conservation programmes.

It suits beginners, blank divers who have been away from the water for a while, and anyone without a dive buddy — the shop runs tours and events so you can make friends and dive together. Free Wi-Fi, air fills and nitrox are on hand, Japanese is spoken, and the shop sits a 9-minute walk from Sagami-Ono Station on the Odakyu Line.