~3h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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Department-store basements are Japan’s edible museums — thousand-yen bento that would cost fifty dollars anywhere else. Isetan Shinjuku is the cathedral.
Isetan Shinjuku's food floor is generally considered the best depachika in Japan, which makes it the most concentrated food retail in the world by most measures. It is a basement, so it is weatherproof, and the counters will explain and sample anything.
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.
Generally considered the best depachika in Japan, which makes it the most concentrated food retail anywhere.
Open in Google MapsWhere locals goTobu Ikebukuro food floors東武百貨店 池袋店One of the largest by floor area, and far less crowded with visitors.
Open in Google MapsClosest to the berthDaimaru Tokyo大丸東京店Inside Tokyo Station, which makes it the one you can actually reach on a tight clock.
Open in Google MapsEach 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.
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