In Japan, you’d very likely get tetrapods. It’s either aesthetic reasons or maybe they think they’re unnatural and can have consequences for other shorelines.

In Japan, you’d very likely get tetrapods. It’s either aesthetic reasons or maybe they think they’re unnatural and can have consequences for other shorelines. I wonder if compacted sand that’s pretty hard would work any better? In a way, they got their money’s worth. Without that sand it’s likely some of those structures would have been damaged.