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Castle park, festival poles and the twin noodle-pot lunch. Timed from the gangway and back.

5 hr door to door6 stopsNeeds a 7-hour call
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Photo: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Door to door
5 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 7-hour call or longer
Castle park, festival poles and the twin noodle-pot lunch
Room to spare
None
Fits a 7-hour stop with nothing to add (off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, back at the gangway an hour before all-aboard). A longer call gives you the extra time; on this one, do not add a stop.
What it costs
¥550 each way
Bus ¥550 each way pp, or taxi ~¥4,500 per car each way (estimate); festival center ¥130 (¥370 with Akarenga).
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups

Timed from the gangway with the port's official timetables · updated · Takumi Yamada

Numbers follow the route below. Pins are the places themselves; walking lines are not drawn because the best way between two stops can change with the tram, the tide or the weather.

The route

How the day runs

Times are from the moment you step off, not from the scheduled arrival. Everything shifts if your ship is late; the order does not.

  1. +0:00
    Taxi to central Akita (~25–30 min, about ¥4,500 per car)

    The bus (10 min walk to Selion, then about 25 min) runs only a few times a day: weekdays 9:30 then 11:20, weekends 11:35. Check the next departure first.

    What you will see here
  2. +0:30
    Senshu Park — moats, lotus, the corner turret

    The cherry tunnel in late April

    What you will see hereFull guide: Senshu Park
    Senshu Park, Akita
    Photo: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. +1:45
    Kanto Festival Center — hoist the practice pole

    Respect earned in 30 seconds

    What you will see hereFull guide: Neburi Nagashi-kan
    Kanto Festival Center, Akita
    Photo: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. +2:45
    Lunch: kiritanpo hotpot or Sato Yosuke inaniwa

    Both within the center blocks

    What you will see here
    Kiritanpo hotpot, Akita
    Photo: pelican from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY-SA 2.0
  5. +4:00
    Akarenga red-brick bank + products plaza sweep

    Sake miniatures and magewappa

    What you will see hereFull guide: Senshu Park
    Magewappa bentwood, Akita
    Photo: sota / CC BY-SA 2.0
  6. +4:40
    Bus/taxi back to the port

    Last bus from Akita Station West: 15:20 on weekdays, 14:25 at weekends and holidays. After that, taxi about ¥4,500.

    Akita Museum of Art, Akita
    Photo: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Would rather have it arranged?Akita Private Custom Tour with Local GuideSame Senshu Park with a private guide; the car is extra and the meeting point is not published. · from US$227 · 5.0★ — why we list it
The margin is not optional. This route ends an hour before all-aboard on purpose. If you are running late, drop the last stop, not the hour.
What the day looks like

Akita, along this route

Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.

A Namahage figure of the Oga Peninsula, Akita
A Namahage figure of the Oga Peninsula, AkitaPhoto: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Lantern poles raised at the Kanto Festival in Akita
Lantern poles raised at the Kanto Festival in AkitaPhoto: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Hinomaru Brewery, a sake brewery in Akita prefecture
Hinomaru Brewery, a sake brewery in Akita prefecturePhoto: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 3.0
An Akita inu
An Akita inuPhoto: Biser Yanev / CC BY-SA 4.0
Black wooden samurai residences in Kakunodate, Akita
Black wooden samurai residences in Kakunodate, AkitaPhoto: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Neburi Nagashi-kan, Akita
Neburi Nagashi-kanPhoto: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Different hours, different day

The other routes in Akita

The rainy-day AkitaA wet day · ~4hWet weather — the city half, done indoorsTower & port townNeeds a 4.5-hour call · ~2.5hEverything within sight of the berthThe Kakunodate returnNeeds a 9-hour call · ~7hArrivals by 08:00, or a 9:00–18:00 call (about 2 h 25 in town) — not 9:00–17:00
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