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Culture & history · 境港The things that happened here and only here, told properly, then tied to what you can see, taste and book while your ship waits.
The manHe lost an arm at Rabaul, learned to draw with the other one, and gave Japan its monsters back
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The creaturesNot ghosts, not demons — the things that explain what you cannot explain
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The catchOne of Japan's biggest fishing ports, and the snow crab that governs its calendar
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The shrineThe month when every god in Japan leaves home and comes here
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The outsiderA Greek-Irish journalist who came for a year, stayed for life, and told the West its first Japanese ghost stories
Read the story →Cruise seasons run spring to autumn, but the port changes underneath them.
The tail of crab season, and very few visitors anywhere.
One of the twelve original keeps, with a moat full of petals.
Dry, mild, and the Adachi Museum gardens at their sharpest.
Rock oysters come in — a summer shellfish here, and very large.
Yokai Road is exposed. Go early or late; the museum is the midday answer.
Then clear air, and the last of the summer oysters.
The best month overall. Izumo works well on a long call.
Early November. The port reorganises around it for five months.
Few ships. If your call lands here, order matsuba-gani without hesitating.
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