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The long call · Tsuruga

The whole story, plus pines and a fish market

Long calls — Diamond Princess’ 10-hour July pattern fits this exactly. Timed from the gangway and back, with the hour before all-aboard already set aside.

~7h door to door6 stops8 hours or more ashore
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Photo: 663highland / CC BY 2.5
Door to door
~7h
From the gangway and back
Best for
8 hours or more
Long calls — Diamond Princess’ 10-hour July pattern fits this exactly
What it costs
~¥4,500 pp with two taxi hops and a market snack · crab season adds whatever you let it
~¥4,500 pp with two taxi hops and a market snack · crab season adds whatever you let it.
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups
The route

How the day runs

Times are from the moment you step off, not from the scheduled arrival. Everything shifts if your ship is late; the order does not.

  1. +0:00
    Shuttle to Kanegasaki — museums first, before the crowd

    Museum ¥500 + Red Brick ¥400 + rail museum free

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  2. +2:00
    Kehi Jingu and the Symbol Road arcade

    Shuttle one stop, then walk the statues toward town

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    Photo: 663highland / CC BY 2.5
  3. +3:00
    Sauce katsudon lunch at Europe-ken

    Closed Mon–Tue — swap for Sakana Machi seafood if so

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    Photo: くろふね / CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. +4:00
    Taxi ~10 min to Kehi no Matsubara

    A 1.5 km red-pine beach, one of Japan’s three great pine groves — flat, shaded, free

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    Photo: くろふね / CC BY 3.0
  5. +5:00
    Taxi ~10 min to Nihonkai Sakana Machi

    Seafood market hall — sweet shrimp year-round, Echizen crab Nov–Mar

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    Photo: くろふね / CC BY 4.0
  6. +6:10
    Taxi back to the wharf (~10 min)

    Or loop bus to the station and ride the shuttle if the clock is friendly

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    Photo: 663highland / CC BY 2.5
The margin is not optional. This route ends an hour before all-aboard on purpose. If you are running late, drop the last stop, not the hour.
What the day looks like

Tsuruga, along this route

Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.

The Port of Humanity Museum, Tsuruga
The Port of Humanity Museum, TsurugaPhoto: 663highland / CC BY 2.5
The great torii of Kehi Jingu
The great torii of Kehi JinguPhoto: Mnd / CC BY-SA 3.0
The Tsuruga red brick warehouses
The Tsuruga red brick warehousesPhoto: Asturio Cantabrio / CC BY-SA 4.0
Kanegasaki-gu
Kanegasaki-guPhoto: Alpsdake / CC BY-SA 4.0
Red Brick Warehouse
Red Brick WarehousePhoto: 663highland / CC BY 2.5
Symbol Road statues
Symbol Road statuesPhoto: ブルーノ・プラス / CC BY 4.0
Different hours, different day

The other routes in Tsuruga

The Port of Humanity, in two hours2–3 hours · ~2.5hAny mobility — the whole cluster is flat and within 300 mGreat torii, humanity, and the original katsudon4–6 hours · ~5hThe full Tsuruga story with a proper sit-down lunchA rain plan the boat-train era builtA wet day · Any hoursWet decks — all indoors except two short dashes
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