~1.5h with travel — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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Japan’s towering realist photographer left his life’s work to his hometown — 70,000 prints in a modernist lakeside building worth the ride on its own.
Ken Domon was the leading Japanese documentary photographer of the twentieth century, born in Sakata, and he gave the city his entire archive of about 70,000 images. The museum built for it in 1983 is by Yoshio Taniguchi, with a garden by Isamu Noguchi.
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
15 minutes each way is the honest figure for taxi ~15 min, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 1 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 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.
2 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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2 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 → 2 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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