How long are you ashore in Maizuru?

2–3 hours ashore · 2 hr 30 min door to door

The navy quarter, dockside

Short calls — one taxi hop, everything clusters

On a 3-hour stop that leaves 30 min spare. Comfortable, but do not add to it.

1. +0:00
   Shuttle/taxi to the Red Brick Park

   ~15 min · the 1900s arsenal warehouses — grounds free

2. +0:20
   Red Brick Museum

   ¥400 · brick architecture worldwide, told inside the real thing

3. +1:00
   Navy harbor cruise

   ¥1,800 · 30 min past working JMSDF destroyers · weekday sailings ~11:00/13:00/14:00 — time your visit to one; tickets in the museum building

4. +1:45
   Navy curry at the park cafe

   Destroyer Fuyuzuki’s own recipe — the fleet genuinely eats this

5. +2:20
   Taxi back

   Have the cafe call it

Running late? Red Brick Park is 7.7 km from Dai-2 (about ¥3,700 by taxi each way at the fare in force from 30 September 2026) or 9.6 km from the International Wharf (about ¥4,600). Cheaper: walk or shuttle to Nishi-Maizuru Station, then the East–West Loop bus (20 min, ¥350, cash).

~¥2,600 pp: museum ¥400 + harbor cruise ¥1,800 + coffee in brick. Map, photos and what you will see at each stop →

4–6 hours ashore · 5 hr door to door

Bricks, destroyers, and the best view in Kinki

Understanding what this port actually is

On a 6-hour stop that leaves 1 hr spare — the full hour this site recommends, and then some.

1. +0:00
   Red Brick Park + museum first

   Before the tour buses stack up

2. +1:00
   Harbor cruise past the fleet

   Buy tickets on arrival — weekday sailings are few

3. +1:45
   Navy curry lunch

   At the park, or Goro’s summit cafe next

4. +2:30
   Taxi up Goro-dake — Sky Tower

   ¥300 · the rias-bay panorama · the bus stop below means a 60-min climb, so take a taxi

5. +3:45
   Repatriation Memorial Museum

   ¥400 · the postwar homecoming story, UNESCO-listed — quiet, essential

6. +4:40
   Taxi back to the pier

   ~15 min

Running late? Drop the tower if clouds sit low — the museum matters more than the view.

~¥5,000 pp with both museums, the cruise and the tower taxi. Map, photos and what you will see at each stop →

8 hours or more ashore · 6 hr 30 min door to door

The bridge to heaven, timed

Long calls — the day Kyoto’s name on the itinerary should have meant

On an 8-hour stop that leaves 1 hr 30 min spare — the full hour this site recommends, and then some.

1. +0:00
   Taxi ~5 min to Nishi-Maizuru Station

   Check the Tantetsu departure board first — trains run about hourly

2. +0:30
   Kyoto Tango Railway to Amanohashidate (~40 min, ¥650)

   Cash · sit left for bay views

3. +1:20
   Lift up to the viewpoint — the Three Views sandbar

   Do the famous upside-down look; laugh; take the photo anyway

4. +2:20
   Bike or walk the pine spit

   Rental bikes cross it in ~20 min · the shrine and beach sit mid-bar

5. +3:30
   Sandbar lunch, then the train back

   Confirm your return train BEFORE lunch and treat it as all-aboard

6. +5:00
   Toretore seafood market by Nishi-Maizuru

   Closed Wednesdays · tori-gai in early summer

7. +5:45
   Taxi to the pier

   ~5 min · margin spent on nothing

Running late? Miss the hourly train and a taxi from Amanohashidate is long and pricey — so never miss it: set an alarm for 30 minutes before departure.

~¥3,500 pp transit + lifts · lunch at the sandbar. Map, photos and what you will see at each stop →

Rainy day ashore · Any hours door to door

Brick roofs and warm curry

Wet decks — the arsenal was built to shrug off weather

Built in pieces — take as many as your stop allows.

1. +0:00
   Red Brick Museum, slowly

   Brick, war, and a century of harbor logistics — better in rain

2. +1:15
   Navy curry, long lunch

   The park cafe, under the old beams

3. +2:15
   Repatriation Memorial Museum

   Taxi ~10 min from the park · the quietest hour this coast offers

4. +3:30
   Toretore market browse, then pier

   Covered stalls · closed Wednesdays

Running late? Four roofs, three taxis, zero weather exposure over five minutes.

~¥1,200 pp in entries — the rest is lunch. Map, photos and what you will see at each stop →