~1h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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After the war, 660,000 Japanese came home through this one harbor — the diaries and letters here are UNESCO Memory of the World, and the town still calls itself “the port of homecoming.”
After 1945 about 660,000 Japanese returned through Maizuru from Siberia and the continent, over thirteen years, many after years in Soviet labour camps. The museum holds their letters and diaries, and that collection is on the UNESCO Memory of the World register.
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
15 minutes each way is the honest figure for ¥400 · taxi ~15 min, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 1 hr 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 one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
Maizuru sees ships off properly — taiko drums and waving crowds are regular here.
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2 hr for bothThe gate and gardens of the Hosokawa clan’s castle — a composed 30 minutes beside the station while you wait for the Amanohashidate train..
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2 hr 15 min for bothEvery Friday the fleet eats curry, and each Maizuru cafe cooks one actual ship’s recipe — order the Fuyuzuki at the Red Brick cafe and you are eating a destroyer’s Friday lunch..
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