Nakaminato fish marketPhoto: 江戸村のとくぞう (Edomura no Tokuzo) / CC BY-SA 4.0
The market's official map numbers thirteen shops: eight restaurants and five shops selling seafood and goods. There are no market-wide opening hours; each shop sets its own.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
A row of fishmongers and seafood restaurants on Nakaminato’s fishing harbour: thirteen shops on the market’s own map, eight of them restaurants. Fish, dried fish and shellfish are sold over the counter. Each shop sets its own hours and days off, and the market can close at short notice in a typhoon.
- Number 2 of ten on our list for Hitachinaka.
- Short enough to be certain of: 2 hr door to door.
- 2 hr door to door needs a 4-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
Nakaminato Osakana Ichiba and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 2 hr goes
The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside. The minutes are our estimates from timetables and maps, not timed on the ground.
If your ship is late, cut the 1 hr 20 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Routes that already include it
Finished days timed from official timetables and our estimates, with this stop in them.
Shrine, the flower hill and a seafood lunchNeeds a 6.5-hour call · ~4.5h door to doorAn 08:00–17:00 call. Times assume off the ship at 08:30, so the shrine fills the hour before the park opens
Mito: 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
Aquaworld Oarai and the fish marketA wet day · ~4.25h door to doorA wet day: an indoor aquarium and a roofed market, with taxis between themWhat to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
2 hr 30 min for bothHoshiimo, dried sweet potato
Sweet potato, steamed, sliced and dried in the winter wind: the product Hitachinaka gives its guests.
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3 hr for bothSakatsura 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.
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3 hr 30 min for bothKodokan, Mito
The Mito domain’s school, opened in 1841, where samurai studied letters, medicine and the martial arts; the main building and gate survive.
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