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About Tsuruga
A port that twice took in people nobody else would. Polish orphans landed here in the Taisho era, and during the Second World War so did Jewish refugees carrying the transit visas Chiune Sugihara wrote in Lithuania against his instructions. Tsuruga calls itself the Port of Humanity for it. The quarter where they came ashore, Kanegasaki, is where the museum and the brick warehouses stand today.
Within reach of the port
Port of Humanity Tsuruga Museum
Built on the quay the ships came in at, and holding what survives of both arrivals: the Polish orphans of the 1920s, and the refugees who reached Tsuruga on Sugihara visas by way of Vladivostok. The city runs it itself, which is unusual and says something.
Kehi Jingu
The old first shrine of the province, a short walk inland from the water, with a great wooden torii over the approach. Its annual festival, the Tsuruga Matsuri, falls in the first half of September.
Tsuruga City tourism (official) ↗in Japanese — your browser can translate it
The red brick warehouses
Two brick sheds from the years when Tsuruga was the Japanese end of the route to Europe by way of Vladivostok and the Trans-Siberian. One now holds a model of the port and its railway as they were, the other restaurants.
Tsuruga Red Brick Warehouse (Tsuruga City) ↗in Japanese — your browser can translate it
Shore excursions
NYK Cruises run their own guided excursions at each port, booked by guests themselves through My ASUKA PLANS — the booking window opens before departure and depends on your cabin class. They are conducted in Japanese. Going ashore independently is always an option.
Official sources
- Tsuruga City (official) ↗in Japanese — your browser can translate it