Fishing boats in Katsuura fishing port, the harbour where the Nigiwai Ichiba market hall standsPhoto: 玄史生 / CC BY-SA 3.0
Nachikatsuura Town says its harbour lands tuna caught by longline and sold fresh.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
Katsuura fishing port lands longline tuna fresh, not frozen. Katsuura Gyoko Nigiwai Ichiba, the market hall on the harbour, opens 08:00–16:00 with last orders at the food stalls at 15:30; it closes on Tuesdays, with changes by the calendar.
- Number 3 of ten on our list for Shingu.
- Short enough to be certain of: 2 hr door to door, so even a tender day works.
- 2 hr door to door needs a 4-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
The place to have it
| Place | What you get |
|---|---|
| The famous oneKatsuura Gyoko Nigiwai Ichiba勝浦漁港にぎわい市場 | The market hall on Katsuura’s tuna harbour, with food stalls and fish counters. 08:00–16:00, last order at the food stalls 15:30; closed Tuesdays, with changes by the calendar and events. |
Each name opens in Google Maps. Opening days change; check before you build a day around one.
Fresh tuna at Katsuura and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 2 hr goes
The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside. The minutes are our estimates from timetables and maps, not timed on the ground.
If your ship is late, cut the 1 hr 20 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Routes that already include it
Finished days timed from official timetables and our estimates, with this stop in them.
All three Kumano shrines in one dayNeeds a 10-hour call · ~8h door to doorCalls of 10 hours or more, such as 07:00–18:00, with a hired car or the ship’s own tour. The prefecture describes the three shrines as a one-day round from this port
A wet day: Hayatama Taisha and tuna under a roofA wet day · ~3h door to doorA wet day on a call of 5.5 hours or more, except a Tuesday, when the market is closed. The Kamikura steps and Daimon-zaka are wet stone: leave themWhat to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
See · ~3hNachi Falls
A single drop of 133 m, 13 m wide at the lip, worshipped as a deity at Hiro Shrine at its foot: there is no shrine hall, only the falls.
See the detail
See · ~4.5hKumano Hongu Taisha
One of the three Kumano grand shrines, in the mountains about an hour up the Kumano River from Shingu.
See the detail
See · ~3hShingu on foot: Hayatama Taisha to Kamikura
The two shrines of Shingu are 1 km apart, a 20-minute walk through the town: cross the red Shimo-bashi bridge into Hayatama Taisha, then walk south to the torii at the foot of the Kamikura steps.
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