~7h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
Thirty minutes each way from Osaka Station — against an hour from Kobe. This is the Kansai port where Kyoto is genuinely comfortable. Pick one district and walk it properly.
Fushimi Inari has about 10,000 vermilion torii climbing a mountain, each one donated by a business asking Inari for prosperity, a practice running since the 8th century. It is consistently the most visited site in Kyoto. From Osaka it is an hour, which makes it a long-call decision.
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
30 minutes each way is the honest figure for jr ~30 min, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 6 hr in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
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.
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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