~45min — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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Soba bound with funori seaweed and laid out in bite-size waves on a cedar tray — chewier, greener, and better than it has any right to be.
Hegi-soba is buckwheat noodles bound with funori seaweed instead of wheat, which makes them smooth and slightly springy, served in folded bundles on a flat wooden tray. The seaweed came from the local textile industry, which used it to size silk thread.
The one the queue agrees on, the one people who live here use instead, and the one nearest your ship. Opening days change; check before you build a day around one.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour stop ashore.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
1 hr 15 min for bothSix stone arches over Japan’s longest river since 1929 — an Important Cultural Property that survived war and earthquakes, and the city’s handshake..
See the detail → 1 hr 30 min for bothFive coins, one wall of the sake capital’s breweries — the single most efficient sake education in Japan, inside the station mall.
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1 hr 30 min for bothThe old market lane reborn as pocket-sized craft shops and roasters.
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