~2.5h in the city — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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Black-broth skewers in a lantern-lit alley, and the best green tea in Japan grown on the hills you can see. Aoba Oden Alley opens from late afternoon — perfect for late sailings.
Shizuoka oden is its own regional form: dark broth from beef tendon, every skewer served with a dusting of dried fish and seaweed powder. Aoba Oden Street is a row of tiny counters that replaced the post-war stalls cleared from the riverbank. Shizuoka also grows more green tea than any other prefecture, and the two are eaten together.
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.
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
11 minutes each way is the honest figure for jr 11 min, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 2 hr 8 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
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 30 min for bothWasabi (real, from the valleys upstream), deep-steamed green tea, and Chibi Maruko-chan goods — the town’s own comic icon.
See the detail → 4 hr for bothJapan's tuna capital, and the market beside the pier proves it — thick-cut bowls at fishmonger prices, picture menus everywhere.
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4 hr for bothA whole alley of sushi counters at Dream Plaza — English-friendly, no reservations, and the fish came off the boats you can see from the window..
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