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For a 5-hour call · TsurugaThe Port of Humanity, in two hours
Any mobility — the whole cluster is flat and within 300 m. The ~3h total allows for about one missed shuttle (it runs every 30 minutes). Timed from the gangway and back.
Timed from the gangway with the port's official timetables · updated · Takumi Yamada
Numbers follow the route below. Pins are the places themselves; walking lines are not drawn because the best way between two stops can change with the tram, the tide or the weather.
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.
- +0:00Shuttle to Kirameki Minato Hall, then a 10-min walk
First stop on the free loop (Oct 2026 pattern; July used a Kanegasaki Green Park stop). If your small ship is berthed at Kanegasaki itself, you are already here
What you will see here - +0:15Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum
¥500 · the Polish orphans and Sugihara-visa refugees landed on this waterfront. Give it a full hour · closed Wednesdays
What you will see hereFull guide: Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum
Photo: 663highland / CC BY 2.5 - +1:15Red Brick Warehouse
3 min on foot · 1905 oil warehouses; the ¥400 rail diorama recreates old Tsuruga
What you will see here
Photo: Asturio Cantabrio / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +1:50Former Tsuruga Port Station museum
Free · 2 min on foot · where the Europe-bound boat train met the ship
What you will see hereFull guide: Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum
Photo: 663highland / CC BY 2.5 - +2:10Shuttle back from the same stop
Loops have run every ~30 min on call days — confirm the day’s sheet at the gangway
Tsuruga, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
