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Road + market feast, Sakaiminato

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For a 6-hour call · Sakaiminato

Road + market feast

Yokai first, then Japan’s biggest crab port at lunch. Timed from the gangway and back.

4 hr door to door5 stopsNeeds a 6-hour call
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Photo: puffyjet / CC BY 2.0
Door to door
4 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 6-hour call or longer
Yokai first, then Japan’s biggest crab port at lunch
Room to spare
None
Fits a 6-hour stop with nothing to add (off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, back at the gangway an hour before all-aboard). A longer call gives you the extra time; on this one, do not add a stop.
What it costs
about ¥4,900 per car
By taxi (terminal to station ~¥2,300, road to market ~¥900, market back to the terminal ~¥1,700; tariff estimates), or about ¥250 pp by bus 41 into town. Carry cash. Crab lunch sets the budget — bowls from ~¥1,500, whole crab by the tank price.
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups

Timed from the gangway with the port's official timetables · updated · Takumi Yamada

Numbers follow the route below. Pins are the places themselves; walking lines are not drawn because the best way between two stops can change with the tram, the tide or the weather.

The route

How the day runs

Times are from the moment you step off, not from the scheduled arrival. Everything shifts if your ship is late; the order does not.

  1. +0:00
    Mizuki Road + museum (the short plan’s core)What you will see hereFull guide: Mizuki Shigeru Road
  2. +1:45
    Taxi to the Direct-Sales Center (~10 min) — closed Tuesdays

    Or walk it in about 20 minutes, flat. On a Tuesday, eat at Tairyo Ichiba Nakaura near the terminal (8:30–16:30)

    Full guide: The fish market
  3. +2:00
    Crab: buy one boiled that morning

    Matsuba-gani from 6 November; before that, red snow crab

    What you will see here
    Whole crab, boiled to order, Sakaiminato
    Photo: Nishimuraya Kinosaki Onsen / CC BY 2.0
  4. +3:00
    Kani-don or nodoguro at the food hall

    Red snow crab most of the year

    What you will see here
    Nodoguro, the throat-black snapper, Sakaiminato
    Photo: Norio NAKAYAMA / CC BY-SA 2.0
  5. +3:40
    Taxi back to the berth
Would rather have it arranged?Sakaiminato Private Vehicle Service with Restaurant ReservationOnly if you want a private car all day: non-refundable and unreviewed. A taxi covers the museum-to-market hop. · from US$269 — why we list it
The margin is not optional. This route ends an hour before all-aboard on purpose. If you are running late, drop the last stop, not the hour.
What the day looks like

Sakaiminato, along this route

Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.

Bronze yokai figures along Mizuki Shigeru Road in Sakaiminato
Bronze yokai figures along Mizuki Shigeru Road in SakaiminatoPhoto: puffyjet / CC BY 2.0
The worship hall of Izumo Taisha with its enormous straw rope, Sakaiminato
The worship hall of Izumo Taisha with its enormous straw ropePhoto: MaedaAkihiko / CC BY-SA 4.0
Lafcadio Hearn’s old residence in Matsue, looking out onto its garden, Sakaiminato
Lafcadio Hearn’s old residence in Matsue, looking out onto its gardenPhoto: irisgazer / Public domain
The fish market, Sakaiminato
The fish marketPhoto: puffyjet / CC BY 2.0
Matsue, Sakaiminato
MatsuePhoto: Suicasmo / CC BY-SA 4.0
Mizuki Shigeru Museum, Sakaiminato
Mizuki Shigeru MuseumPhoto: Totti / CC BY-SA 4.0
Different hours, different day

The other routes in Sakaiminato

The rainy-day SakaiminatoA wet day · ~3.5hWet weather — one dry ride in, then everything is closeThe yokai roadNeeds a 4.5-hour call · ~2.5hThe one-street day — ride in, then never need wheels againThe Adachi excursionNeeds a 7-hour call · ~5hLong calls — Japan’s best garden needs the trip
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