Old Muroran Station buildingPhoto: Punkssand / CC0
The building dates from 1912 and is the oldest surviving wooden station building in Hokkaido.
- Getting there
- 10 min on foot from Chuo Pier (our estimate); taxi from Shukutsu about ¥1,900
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
A wooden station building from 1912, the oldest surviving in Hokkaido and a registered Tangible Cultural Property. It is now the Muroran Tourism Association office, free: 08:00–19:00 from April to October, 08:00–17:00 from November to March, closed 1 January. Ask here for maps and taxis.
- Short enough to be certain of: 1 hr 30 min door to door.
- Closed 1 January. Check the day before you plan around it.
- 1 hr 30 min door to door needs a 3.5-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
Old Muroran Station building and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Routes that already include it
Finished days timed from official timetables and our estimates, with this stop in them.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
3 hr for bothHakucho Bridge and the roadside station
The Hakucho Bridge, 1,380 m long and finished in 1998, is the largest suspension bridge in eastern Japan, and Shukutsu Pier sits at its west end.
See the detail
3 hr for bothMuroran Aquarium
Hokkaido’s oldest aquarium, opened in 1953: about 120 species, seal, sea-lion and penguin shows, and a small funfair.
See the detail
3 hr 10 min for bothCape Chikyu
Cliffs of about 100 m with the white Chikiu Misaki Lighthouse, first lit in 1920, 130 m above the Pacific.
See the detail