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Brick roofs and warm curry

Wet decks — the arsenal was built to shrug off weather. Timed from the gangway and back, with the hour before all-aboard already set aside.

Any hours door to door4 stopsA wet day ashore
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Photo: Sengoku2501 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Door to door
Any hours
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Wet decks — the arsenal was built to shrug off weather
What it costs
~¥1,200 pp in entries — the rest is lunch
~¥1,200 pp in entries — the rest is lunch.
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups
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
    Red Brick Museum, slowly

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

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  2. +1:15
    Navy curry, long lunch

    The park cafe, under the old beams

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    Photo: Asturio Cantabrio / CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. +2:15
    Repatriation Memorial Museum

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

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    Photo: TOTIZYOUKA / CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. +3:30
    Toretore market browse, then pier

    Covered stalls · closed Wednesdays

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    Photo: Kansai explorer / CC BY 3.0
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

Maizuru, along this route

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

The Maizuru repatriation memorial
The Maizuru repatriation memorialPhoto: 桂鷺淵 / CC BY-SA 3.0
Maizuru Repatriation Memorial Park
Maizuru Repatriation Memorial ParkPhoto: 桂鷺淵 / CC BY-SA 3.0
Amanohashidate, the pine sandbar across the bay
Amanohashidate, the pine sandbar across the bayPhoto: KimonBerlin / CC BY-SA 2.0
Navy curry, the Maizuru fleet recipe
Navy curry, the Maizuru fleet recipePhoto: kxz Chen from Taoyuan City, Taiwan / CC BY-SA 2.0
Tanabe Castle site
Tanabe Castle sitePhoto: Asturio Cantabrio / CC BY-SA 4.0
Red Brick Park
Red Brick ParkPhoto: Asturio Cantabrio / CC BY-SA 4.0
Different hours, different day

The other routes in Maizuru

The navy quarter, dockside2–3 hours · ~2.5hShort calls — one taxi hop, everything clustersBricks, destroyers, and the best view in Kinki4–6 hours · ~5hUnderstanding what this port actually isThe bridge to heaven, honestly timed8 hours or more · ~6.5hLong calls — the day Kyoto’s name on the itinerary should have meant
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