~1.5h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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White rhyolite spires over water so clear the monks called it Paradise — the single image of the Sanriku coast, ten minutes from your berth.
White rhyolite spires standing in still water, named by a 17th-century monk who said it resembled the Pure Land, the Buddhist paradise. The pebbles are white, which is why the water reads pale green. It is the centrepiece of Sanriku Fukko National Park, created after the 2011 tsunami.
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.
24 minutes each way is the honest figure for bus ¥200 / taxi, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 42 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 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.
2 hr for bothFree, well-built exhibits on how the rias coast works — ten minutes here makes everything you see afterward make sense.
See the detail → 2 hr 15 min for bothMiyako’s own invention: the day’s uni and roe served in a milk bottle you pour over rice yourself — born from how fishermen carried raw uni to market..
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2 hr 15 min for bothThe rias bays grow Japan’s sweetest summer urchin, and cruise season lands exactly on it — have it in the bin-don, on rice, or straight..
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