🏛️ Museum
Tsuruga Red Brick Warehouse
Century-old brick warehouses with a town diorama museum, cafes and shops by the old port.
Typical duration
60 min
Price
Diorama museum ~¥400 (≈ €2.4 / $2.5)
From port
1.5 km / 0.9 mi
Transfer time
8 min
Indoor / Outdoor
mixed
Queue risk
low
👨👩👧 Family friendly♿ Wheelchair accessible⚡ Good for short stops
🕐 Best time to visit
Late morning; pair with the Kanegasaki waterfront
Built in 1905 as oil-storage sheds, Tsuruga's twin red-brick warehouses now hold a cafe-and-restaurant wing and a museum wing whose centrepiece is a large model diorama of the port town in its early-20th-century heyday as a gateway between Japan and Europe. It is an easy, atmospheric stop right on the Kanegasaki waterfront.
Getting there from the port
Short taxi or walk from the Kanegasaki area; shuttle from Mariyama pier
🚌 Best transport: taxi💶 Cost: Short taxi or walk from Kanegasaki