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The port-side secret, Kanazawa

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For a 4-hour call · Kanazawa

The port-side secret

Short calls — the realistic answer this far from downtown. Timed from the gangway and back.

2 hr door to door3 stopsNeeds a 4-hour call
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Door to door
2 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 4-hour call or longer
Short calls — the realistic answer this far from downtown
Room to spare
None
Fits a 4-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
On foot; a taxi back from Ono is about ¥1,100.
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
    Ikiiki Fish Market beside the terminal

    Beside the terminal. Opening hours and closed days are not published, so ask at the terminal information desk first

  2. +0:45
    Walk to the Ono soy-sauce quarter (1.3 km, ~15 min) or taxi (~5 min)

    Edo-era shoyu warehouses; Yamato Soy Sauce & Miso 10:00–17:00, closed Wednesdays

  3. +1:40
    Walk back to the terminal (about 15 min)

    A taxi is about ¥1,100 if one is available. Downtown needs 4h+ — do not force 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

Kanazawa, along this route

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

Earthen walls along a lane in the Nagamachi samurai district, Kanazawa
Earthen walls along a lane in the Nagamachi samurai district, KanazawaPhoto: Andrea Schaffer from Sydney, Australia / CC BY 2.0
A sheet of Kanazawa gold leaf being laid by hand
A sheet of Kanazawa gold leaf being laid by handPhoto: jam_232 / CC BY 2.0
Kenrokuen garden in autumn colour, Kanazawa
Kenrokuen garden in autumn colour, KanazawaPhoto: Lorenzo Castellino / Pexels
Kaga yuzen silk dyeing in Kanazawa
Kaga yuzen silk dyeing in KanazawaPhoto: Japanexperterna.se / CC BY-SA 2.0
Boiled snow crab, male and female, Kanazawa
Boiled snow crab, male and femalePhoto: Nishimuraya Kinosaki Onsen / CC BY 2.0
Higashi Chaya, Kanazawa
Higashi ChayaPhoto: Yoshihide Urushihara / CC BY-SA 2.0
Different hours, different day

The other routes in Kanazawa

The rainy-day KanazawaA wet day · ~5hWet weather — and Kanazawa is wet, by designThe garden coreNeeds a 7.5-hour call · ~5.5hKenroku-en and its neighbors — the reason you dockedThe grand loopNeeds a 10-hour call · ~8hLong calls — garden, gold leaf, geisha lanes and the pool
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