~7h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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A full-scale Dutch town built in 1992 on 152 hectares — larger than Tokyo Disneyland — with real canals, brick streets, windmills and a million tulips in spring. It is unashamedly strange and Japanese families adore it.
A 152-hectare reproduction of a Dutch town, opened in 1992 and named after a real royal palace in The Hague. Japan's connection to the Netherlands is not a theme-park invention: for over two centuries the Dutch were the only Westerners permitted to trade here. It is the largest single theme park site in Japan.
A reproduction Dutch town opened in 1992 on 152 hectares — larger than Tokyo Disneyland — with real navigable canals, brick streets laid to Dutch specification, windmills, and a replica of the Dutch royal residence it is named after. Nagasaki was Japan’s window on the Netherlands for two centuries, so the choice is less arbitrary than it looks.
It is unashamedly strange, and Japanese families adore it. A million tulips in spring, one of the largest illumination displays in the country after dark, and enough space that even on a busy day it does not feel crowded.
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.
20 minutes each way is the honest figure for train ~20 min, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 6 hr 20 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
On a call of eight hours or more, yes. It is twenty minutes by train from Sasebo Station and covers 152 hectares — larger than Tokyo Disneyland — with navigable canals, brick streets and a million tulips in spring. On a shorter call the ticket price cannot be justified against the time you get inside.
Because Nagasaki Prefecture was Japan’s only official window on the Netherlands for over two centuries, through the Dutch trading post at Dejima. Huis Ten Bosch opened in 1992 as a full-scale reproduction, named after and including a replica of the Dutch royal residence.
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.
See · ~3hA drowned coastline of 208 wooded islets — the name means ninety-nine and undercounts by half.
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Eat · ~1.25hNot a recipe — a rule.
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See · ~2.5hThe classic view over the islands, from a headland the city planted with 150,000 cosmos for autumn and rape flowers for spring.
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