~3.5h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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The most-reviewed single experience at any port covered on this site. Armour, a shinai, and an instructor who will correct your grip rather than pose for photographs.
Kendo descends from samurai swordsmanship, formalised with bamboo shinai and armour in the 18th century and now practised by over a million people in Japan. An hour with a licensed instructor buys the part that watching cannot give you: how heavy the armour is, and how loud it is inside.
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Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
Eat · ~2h incl. subwayInvented in this city in 1935 — batter, a cube of octopus, turned in a cast-iron dimple plate with a pick.
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See · ~2hA canal walled with the loudest signage in Japan.
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See · ~3hHideyoshi built it, the Tokugawa destroyed it in 1615 and rebuilt it, lightning burned the keep in 1665, and the current tower is 1931 concrete with a lift.
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