~3h with travel — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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The world’s definitive jellyfish aquarium — dozens of species drifting in backlit tanks, reopened April 2026 after renewal (¥1,500). No practical bus; taxi or tour only.
Kamo keeps more jellyfish species on display than any aquarium in the world, over fifty, after the place nearly closed in the 1990s and gambled on the one exhibit visitors responded to. Its main tank is five metres across and full of drifting moon jellies.
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
45 minutes each way is the honest figure for taxi ~45 min, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 2 hr 30 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour stop ashore.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
4 hr 40 min for bothThe 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..
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4 hr 40 min for bothJapan’s oldest surviving wooden lighthouse (1895), a half-scale trade-ship replica, and the sunset that made the Sea of Japan run famous..
See the detail → 4 hr 45 min for bothFishermen’s seafood bowls inside the working harbor market — open from seven in the morning, which suits a cruise clock perfectly..
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