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Homma Family Villa

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Homma Family VillaPhoto: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 3.0

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Round trip
40 min
From the ship and back
Fits
a 3-hour call or longer
Margin already counted
Getting there
¥1,100
See the rides below
Booking
Just turn up
Nothing to reserve

Checked against official sources · updated · Takumi Yamada

Why we send people here

The 1768 residence of the merchant house so rich that farmers sang about them — half samurai-formal, half merchant-practical, and small enough to fit any call.

Why it earns the hours
  • Short enough to be certain of: 40 min door to door, so even a tender day works.
Before you count on it
  • No single published ride covers this one. Budget for a taxi both ways, or fold it into a guided day.
The story

Why Homma Family Villa is famous

The Homma were the richest landowning family in Japan, and this house was built in 1768 as lodging for a shogunate inspector, then used by the family for two centuries. It is two buildings joined: a formal samurai-style wing for the official, and a plain merchant wing where the owners actually lived.

Where it is

Homma Family Villa and your ship

Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.

The day this belongs to

Routes that already include it

Each one is a finished day timed from the official timetables, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.

The merchant quarter on footNeeds a 4.5-hour call · ~2.5h door to doorShort calls — everything flat, inside a 10-minute-walk clusterWarehouses, seafood, and the maiko danceNeeds a 7-hour call · ~5h door to doorThe signature Sakata day — if you reserved Somaro before sailingThe full merchant storyNeeds a 9-hour call · ~7h door to doorLong calls — MSC and Westerdam’s usual patterns fitMerchant houses in the rainA wet day · Any hours door to doorWet days — the cluster keeps the dashes short
Pairs well with

What to put beside it

Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.

Build your own day
1 hr 25 min for both

Kaisen-don at Donya Tobishima

Fishermen’s seafood bowls inside the working harbor market — open from seven in the morning, which suits a cruise clock perfectly..

See the detailSakata wonton-men, Sakata1 hr 25 min for both

Sakata wonton-men

Wontons rolled silk-thin over a light shoyu bowl — Sakata’s post-war classic, served since 1960 at Mangetsu until the soup runs out.

See the detailHiyoriyama Park, Sakata1 hr 40 min for both

Hiyoriyama Park

Japan’s oldest surviving wooden lighthouse (1895), a half-scale trade-ship replica, and a view over the harbour and the Mogami river mouth.

See the detail
The one rule: be back on board 60 minutes before all-aboard. Build the whole day on the Sakata plan page.
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