~1h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
A seafood market hall on the road out of town — sweet shrimp, grilled snacks, and from November to March the Echizen crab that makes Fukui famous.
A large seafood market hall near the port, stocked from Wakasa Bay: crab in winter, flatfish, and the salted mackerel that gave the old Saba Kaido, the mackerel road to Kyoto, its name. It is a market for people buying to take away, which keeps the prices honest.
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.
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
15 minutes each way is the honest figure for bus/taxi from the station, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 1 hr 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.
1 hr 50 min for bothA pocket museum of the boat-train era, when Tokyo–Tsuruga–Vladivostok was the fastest way from Japan to Paris.
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2 hr for bothTwenty-eight bronze Galaxy Express 999 and Space Battleship Yamato figures line the arcade — the town’s 1999 tribute to its port-and-rails century.
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2 hr for bothThe “love shrine” on the hill over the museum quarter — a short stair climb, a harbor view, and in early April the cherry-blossom flower-exchange festival..
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