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The long call · Sakata

The full merchant story, ending at golden hour

Long calls — MSC and Westerdam’s usual patterns fit. Timed from the gangway and back, with the hour before all-aboard already set aside.

~7h door to door6 stops8 hours or more ashore
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Photo: くろふね / CC BY 3.0
Door to door
~7h
From the gangway and back
Best for
8 hours or more
Long calls — MSC and Westerdam’s usual patterns fit
What it costs
~¥7,000 pp with all four houses and a taxi to the photography museum
~¥7,000 pp with all four houses and a taxi to the photography museum.
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups
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
    Shuttle → Sankyo Warehouses + Iroha-gura

    Icon first

    What you will see here →
  2. +1:15
    Homma Museum & Kakubuen garden

    ¥1,300 · open daily · 15 min walk toward the station

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    Photo: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 3.0
  3. +2:30
    Wonton-men lunch at Mangetsu

    The silk-wonton classic · closed Tuesdays — Kacho Fugetsu is the backup

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    Photo: くろふね / CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. +3:30
    Taxi ~15 min to the Ken Domon Photography Museum

    Japan’s great realist photographer in a lakeside modernist building

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    Photo: shikabane taro / CC BY 3.0
  5. +5:00
    Taxi back → Somaro or the Homma Villa

    Whichever you have not seen — Somaro needs a reservation

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    Photo: さかおり / CC BY-SA 4.0
  6. +6:00
    Hiyoriyama Park before the shuttle

    The sunset ridge over the harbor — Sakata’s send-off

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    Photo: Kasadera / CC BY 2.0
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

Sakata, along this route

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

The Sankyo warehouses and their zelkova avenue
The Sankyo warehouses and their zelkova avenuePhoto: さかおり / CC BY-SA 4.0
Wonton-men, the Sakata bowl
Wonton-men, the Sakata bowlPhoto: Guilhem Vellut from Annecy, France / CC BY 2.0
The Homma family villa garden, Sakata
The Homma family villa garden, SakataPhoto: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 4.0
A Sakata seafood bowl
A Sakata seafood bowlPhoto: Ocdp / CC0
Mt. Haguro
Mt. HaguroPhoto: さかおり / CC BY-SA 4.0
Kamo Aquarium
Kamo AquariumPhoto: くろふね / CC BY 4.0
Different hours, different day

The other routes in Sakata

The merchant quarter on foot2–3 hours · ~2.5hShort calls — everything flat, inside a 10-minute-walk clusterWarehouses, seafood, and the two-o’clock maiko4–6 hours · ~5hThe signature Sakata day — if you reserved Somaro before sailingMerchant houses in the rainA wet day · Any hoursWet days — the cluster keeps the dashes short
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