Photo: くろふね / CC BY 3.0Timed 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.
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.
- +0:00Shuttle to Nakamachi → Sankyo Warehouses
Do the icon first, before tour buses
What you will see hereFull guide: Sankyo Warehouses - +1:00Early lunch at Sakata Kaisen Ichiba
Donya Tobishima’s kaisen-don · 7:00–9:30 and from 11:00 · cash only
What you will see hereFull guide: Sakata Kaisen Ichiba
Photo: Ocdp / CC0 - +2:00Homma Family Villa
¥1,100 · 20 minutes is enough if the clock is tight
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Photo: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 3.0 - +2:45Somaro — the afternoon maiko performance
A clock time, not a gap: only the regular 14:00 show can be booked ahead (2 or more people); on cruise days Somaro sells extra shows at the counter on the day and the afternoon show may be 13:45 rather than 14:00, so check somaro.net the night before and be at the door 30 minutes early · ¥2,500 · closed Wednesdays except cruise days · a show runs about 45 minutes
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Photo: さかおり / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +4:00Hiyoriyama Park
Japan’s oldest wooden lighthouse and the harbor view — about 10 min uphill, gently. If you land early, come here before lunch instead
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Photo: Kasadera / CC BY 2.0 - +4:40Shuttle or taxi back
After the afternoon show, leave town by about 15:10 for a 16:30 all-aboard. Confirm the last shuttle, or ask Somaro to call a taxi
What you will see here
Sakata, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
