~2h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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Thin beef seared on a hot plate and finished with a lemon and soy sauce, then rice tipped into the remaining sauce at the end. It was invented in this city in the 1950s and almost nowhere else in Japan serves it.
Lemon steak is thin beef on a hot iron plate with a soy and lemon sauce, created in a Sasebo restaurant in the 1950s for American sailors who wanted steak and Japanese cooks who wanted it to taste of something. The remaining sauce is poured over rice, which is the part locals insist on.
The one the queue agrees on, the one people who live here use instead, and the one nearest your ship. Opening days change; check before you build a day around one.
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.
3 hr 15 min for bothNot a recipe — a rule.
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3 hr 15 min for bothAbout a kilometre of covered shopping in a straight line, among the longest of its kind in Japan, five minutes from the gangway.
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4 hr 30 min for bothThe 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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