Photo: Atsasebo / CC BY-SA 3.0Door to door
5 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Wet weather — and this port is built for it
Room to spare
None
Fits a 7-hour stop with nothing to add (off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, back at the gangway an hour before all-aboard). A longer call gives you the extra time; on this one, do not add a stop.
What it costs
¥780 pp
Bus. Aquarium ~¥1,470.
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups
Timed 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.
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.
- +0:00The arcade, which is entirely covered
A kilometre of it, about eight minutes from the Miura berth
What you will see hereFull guide: Sasebo Burger & the arcade - +0:45A Sasebo burger, sitting downWhat you will see hereFull guide: Sasebo Burger & the arcade
Photo: South simabara / CC BY 3.0 - +1:30Bus to Umikirara aquarium
About 25 minutes from stop 6, about hourly. Indoors, beside the island boats, and genuinely good on jellyfish
Photo: 663highland / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +3:30Bus back, then the arcade for senpei and castella
Buses back about hourly; at weekends nothing between 14:55 and 17:00
What you will see hereFull guide: Sasebo Burger & the arcade
Photo: South simabara / CC BY 3.0 - +4:30Back to the berth
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
Sasebo, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
