Photo: さかおり / CC BY-SA 4.0Timed 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 the Nakamachi center
Use the ship shuttle if your daily programme lists one (the drop point varies by line), or a taxi: about 15 min, roughly ¥2,000–2,600 per car (our estimate). Photograph the return timetable
- +0:15Sankyo Warehouses & the zelkova avenue
The 1893 rice storehouses — the exterior row is the photograph. about 5 min walk from the drop
What you will see hereFull guide: Sankyo Warehouses
Photo: くろふね / CC BY 3.0 - +0:55Iroha-gura Park — shops and snacks
The warehouse shopping annex moved here in 2025; 5 min on foot
- +1:30Homma Family Villa
¥1,100 · the 1768 house of Japan’s richest merchants
What you will see here
Photo: 掬茶 / CC BY-SA 3.0 - +2:15Back to the shuttle drop, or a taxi
Nothing on this loop is more than 10 minutes from anything else. The last shuttle is your real deadline; for a taxi, have a café or the residence call one
Sakata, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
