~2h with travel — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
The Ito family’s 65-room landowner estate — the countryside mirror of Sakata’s Homma story, with a wisteria courtyard that owns late April.
The estate of the Ito family, who owned over 1,300 hectares of rice land before the post-war land reforms took it. The 1889 house has 65 rooms and a 30-metre veranda facing the garden. It survives because the last head donated it rather than let it be broken up.
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
25 minutes each way is the honest figure for taxi ~25 min · ¥800, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 1 hr 40 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 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 → 3 hr 15 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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3 hr 15 min for bothThe old market lane reborn as pocket-sized craft shops and roasters.
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