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Kairakuen, Mito

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Kairakuen, Mito, Hitachinaka

Kairakuen, MitoPhoto: SQ0 / CC BY 4.0

Outside the plum festival, from mid-February to late March, Kairakuen is free from opening time until 09:00, and Ibaraki residents enter free all day.

Round trip
3 hr
From the ship and back
Fits
a 5-hour call or longer
Margin already counted
Getting there
About 21 km from the berth, about ¥9,400 by taxi (our estimate) · or JR Katsuta → Mito, 6 min, then bus 10
See the rides below
Booking
No booking found
Check its own page before you sail

Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada

Why go

The garden the Mito lord Tokugawa Nariaki opened in 1842, with plum trees across the slope above Lake Senba and the Kobuntei villa (09:00–17:00, ¥230). Adult ¥320; ¥500 during the plum festival, from mid-February to late March; free before 09:00 outside it. Open 06:00–19:00, from October 07:00–18:00.

Why it earns the hours
  • Number 3 of ten on our list for Hitachinaka.
Before you count on it
  • 3 hr door to door needs a 5-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
Where it is

Kairakuen, Mito and your ship

Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.

The day this belongs to

Routes that already include it

Finished days timed from official timetables and our estimates, with this stop in them.

Mito: Kodokan and Kairakuen, then Nakaminato, HitachinakaMito: Kodokan and Kairakuen, then NakaminatoNeeds an 8.5-hour call · ~6.25h door to doorAn 08:00–17:00 call, best in the plum season (mid-February to late March). All-aboard 16:30, back at the gangway by 15:30
Pairs well with

What to put beside it

Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.

Build your own day
Hoshiimo, dried sweet potato, Hitachinaka3 hr 30 min for both

Hoshiimo, dried sweet potato

Sweet potato, steamed, sliced and dried in the winter wind: the product Hitachinaka gives its guests.

See the detailSakatsura Isosaki Shrine, Hitachinaka4 hr for both

Sakatsura Isosaki Shrine

A coastal shrine reached through a tunnel of old trees, the approach a prefectural natural monument; it is the sister shrine of Oarai Isosaki.

See the detail
The one rule: be back on board 60 minutes before all-aboard. Build the whole day on the Hitachinaka plan page.
Everything in one pageThe complete Hitachinaka guide: berth, into town, your hours, tours that fitOpen the complete guide →