~3h private session — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
Ninety minutes of stillness in a temple, then whisked matcha and brushwork — the cultural depth of Kyoto without leaving your port. Small-group and genuinely private.
Zazen is seated Zen meditation, introduced to Japan in the 12th and 13th centuries and practised in temples here ever since. Sitting a session, then grinding matcha and holding a brush, is the shortest honest route into the part of Japanese culture that a viewpoint cannot show you. It needs booking, and it needs you to be still.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour stop ashore.
Booked before you sail — there is no tour desk at the pier. Booking through this link supports the site.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
4 hr 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 30 min 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 30 min 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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