Karatsu JinjaPhoto: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Getting there
- Taxi about 8 min, about ¥1,600 (our estimate); about 20 min on foot from the castle
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
The town’s shrine, said to date from the Nara period, and the home of the Kunchi festival: every November the 14 floats escort its portable shrine through the streets. A white torii stands at the gate. Free; the office is open 09:00–17:00. From 25 September 2027 the float hall is next door.
- Short enough to be certain of: 1 hr door to door.
Karatsu Jinja and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 1 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 45 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.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
2 hr for bothFormer Karatsu Bank
The red-brick head office of the Karatsu Bank, finished in March 1912 in the Tatsuno style, red brick banded with white granite under small towers and domes.
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2 hr 30 min for bothThe 14 Kunchi floats
The giant lacquered floats of the Karatsu Kunchi festival, lions and samurai helmets among them, all 14 under one roof; the oldest, the red lion, was made in 1819.
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2 hr 30 min for bothKyu-Takatori residence
The seaside house of Takatori Koreyoshi, who made his money in coal, built in the late Meiji era and now an Important Cultural Property.
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