~3h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
Two guided hours among the black-walled kura of Akita’s old traders — sake cellars, miso vats, family stories. The city’s texture, unlocked cheaply.
Akita's merchant storehouses are brick and thick-walled, built to survive both fire and snow, and several survive along the old town streets. They are not a preserved district but working buildings scattered among ordinary ones, which is a more honest picture of a northern Japanese city.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour stop ashore.
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Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
4 hr for both100 meters of free observation deck right beside the berth — the Sea of Japan one way, snow mountains the other.
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5 hr for bothRose-shaped street sherbet scooped by obachan vendors in summer, and the prefecture’s rice-perfect sake year-round — the Products Plaza pours tasting flights..
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