~2h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
Japan’s oldest church, built for returning exiles — the discovery of hidden Christians here in 1865 stunned the world. The cobbled slopes beside it are free.
Oura is the oldest church in Japan, built in 1864 for foreign residents. Weeks after it opened, a group of Japanese villagers approached a priest and identified themselves as Christians, the first hidden Christians to surface after 250 years of prohibition. It is a National Treasure and part of the UNESCO listing.
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
3 minutes each way is the honest figure for by glover garden, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 1 hr 54 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.
3 hr for bothPortuguese sponge cake perfected over 400 years — Fukusaya’s 1624 original shop still hand-mixes every batch.
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4 hr for bothThe restaurant that invented champon in 1899 still ladles it under a chandeliered dome by the harbor.
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4 hr for bothFor two centuries this fan-shaped islet was Japan’s only window on the West.
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