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Eat in Sakaiminato · #4 of the port's ten~2h at the stalls — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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Pick your crab from the tank, have it boiled, crack it at the counter tables. Cheaper than any restaurant and twice the theater — vendors will teach you the leg technique.
Matsuba-gani is the male snow crab of this coast, landed between November and March under a strictly enforced season. Each legal crab carries a coloured tag identifying its port. Boiled whole to order is the plain form, because the meat does not need anything done to it.
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 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 30 min for bothThe Yokai Food Research Lab sells Medama-oyaji — an eerily accurate eyeball on a stick, in wagashi form.
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3 hr 30 min for bothWorking fishing fleets, Mt.
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4 hr for both177 bronze yokai spirits line the 800 metres from the station to the museum — Japan’s strangest, most charming main street, drawn from the manga master born here.
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