~2.5h daytime — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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The night view is one of Japan’s three great ones — but the daytime panorama of the two-sided isthmus is nearly as good and actually fits most calls. Late sailings: go at dusk.
The 334-metre hill at the end of the peninsula looks down on a town built across an isthmus, so the night view is two curves of water either side of a band of light. Michelin's Japan guide gave it three stars. The ropeway takes three minutes; the queue after sunset does not.
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour stop ashore.
Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
3 hr 30 min for bothCheese omelet cakes that dissolve on contact — Hakodate’s proudest confection, boxed for travel.
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3 hr 30 min for bothA local chain’s pork-skewer bento with a cult following — order at the counter, eat on the harbor wall.
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4 hr for bothUni, ikura and crab over rice at 7 a.m., a hundred meters of squid tanks from the Wakamatsu berth (from Minatocho, ride the shuttle first).
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