Tomé is a small coastal town about an hour north of Concepción, facing the Pacific at the mouth of a small river. It is best known in Chile for the Bellavista-Tomé textile factory, founded in 1865 and once the largest in the country. The factory closed in 2007, and its shuttered complex still dominates the seafront — a hulking industrial relic slowly rusting behind a wire fence, with a handful of the old worker's houses surviving in the streets above.
The town has two good beaches. Bellavista and El Morro sit on either side of a rocky headland, both forming shallow crescent bays with the dark sand typical of this stretch of coast. They draw weekend crowds from Concepción for the seafood restaurants and easy walking, and the town has more worn-in character than the purpose-built resorts nearby. The fish restaurants along the coast road are straightforward and reliable.
Tomé has frequent bus services from Concepción throughout the day. If you are making a day of it, the nearby resort town of Dichato is easy to combine — the two towns are close enough that you can reach one from the other by local bus.