~4h round trip — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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Neon canyons, the Glico runner, takoyaki smoke — Osaka after dark is a different country from genteel Kobe, and it is half an hour away by train.
Dotonbori has been Osaka's entertainment canal since a merchant cut it in 1615. The neon, the mechanical crab and the running Glico man are the visual shorthand for Osaka itself. From Kobe it is about forty minutes by train, which makes it an evening rather than an afternoon.
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
25 minutes each way is the honest figure for train 20–30 min, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 3 hr 10 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour stop ashore.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
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