Photo: Sengoku2501 / CC BY-SA 4.0Door to door
Any hours
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Wet decks — the arsenal was built to shrug off weather
Room to spare
Flexible
Built in pieces — take as many as your stop allows.
What it costs
~¥1,200 pp
In entries — the rest is lunch.
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups
Timed from the gangway with the port's official timetables · updated · Takumi Yamada
Numbers follow the route below. Pins are the places themselves; walking lines are not drawn because the best way between two stops can change with the tram, the tide or the weather.
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.
- +0:00Red Brick Museum, slowly
Brick, war, and a century of harbor logistics — better in rain
What you will see hereFull guide: Maizuru Red Brick Park - +1:15Navy curry, long lunch
The park cafe, under the old beams
What you will see here
Photo: Asturio Cantabrio / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +2:15Repatriation Memorial Museum
Taxi ~10 min from the park · the quietest hour this coast offers
What you will see here
Photo: TOTIZYOUKA / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +3:30Toretore market browse, then pier
Covered stalls · closed Wednesdays
What you will see here
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.
Different hours, different day
The other routes in Maizuru
The navy quarter, docksideNeeds a 4.5-hour call · ~2.5hShort calls — one taxi hop, everything clustersBricks, destroyers, and the best view in KinkiNeeds a 7-hour call · ~5hUnderstanding what this port actually isThe bridge to heaven, timedNeeds an 8.5-hour call · ~6.5hLong calls — the day Kyoto’s name on the itinerary should have meant