~3h, late sailings only — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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A ten-million-dollar view, officially one of Japan’s top three — the harbor coils below like a dragon. Only for ships that sail after dark; check your aboard time first.
A 333-metre hill with a ropeway, looking down on a harbour city wrapped around water and hemmed by mountains, so the lights stack vertically. It is routinely grouped with Hakodate and Kobe as one of Japan's three great night views, and was once promoted as one of the world's three.
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.
4 hr for bothPortuguese sponge cake perfected over 400 years — Fukusaya’s 1624 original shop still hand-mixes every batch.
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5 hr for bothThe restaurant that invented champon in 1899 still ladles it under a chandeliered dome by the harbor.
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5 hr for bothFor two centuries this fan-shaped islet was Japan’s only window on the West.
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