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Tower & port town, Akita

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For a 4.5-hour call · Akita

Tower & port town

Everything within sight of the berth. Timed from the gangway and back.

2 hr 30 min door to door4 stopsNeeds a 4.5-hour call
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Photo: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Door to door
2 hr 30 min
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 4.5-hour call or longer
Everything within sight of the berth
Room to spare
None
Fits a 4.5-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
¥0
Selion and the port town are at the berth.
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
    Selion Tower — 100m of free views at the port

    Sea one way, snow mountains the other

    What you will see hereFull guide: Port Tower Selion
  2. +0:45
    Walk into Tsuchizaki port town

    The old shipping quarter and its shrine

  3. +1:30
    Tsuchizaki Minato History Museum (float on show)

    July’s festival, preserved year-round · free, 9:00–17:00, closed Tuesdays; ~15 min on foot from the terminal

    What you will see here
    Kanto Festival Center, Akita
    Photo: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. +2:15
    Walk back to the berth
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 indoorsThe city samplerNeeds a 7-hour call · ~5hCastle park, festival poles and the twin noodle-pot lunchThe 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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