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Sakaiminato is a port city in Japan's Tottori Prefecture, established in 1899 (as an open port for trading with the UK and USA) and as city in 1956. Port Sakaiminato is also the cruise port to Matsue (Shimane Prefecture's capital city, port locode JPMTE) and Yasugi (best known for the Adachi Museum of Art and its open-air gardens).

Sakaiminato is located at Yumigahama Peninsula's northern end, surrounded by Lake Nakaumi (west), Miho Bay (east) and Sakai Channel (north). The city has population around 35,000, covers land area approx 29 km2 (11 mi2). and is served by Port Sakai (locode JPSAK).

Following WW2 (1939-1945), the seaport served as a fishing base for all Western Japan's fishing industry. Product processing is still a major industry here. Here is homeported DBS Cruise Ferry company's cruiseferry  Eastern Dream, connecting Japan to Vladivostok (Russia)  and Donghae (South Korea).

Yonago Airport is the busiest in Tottori Prefecture. Next to the airport is Miho Airbase. Asiana Airlines (one of South Korea's two largest airlines - together with Korean Air) has sales office in Sakaiminato. The city is linked to Japan's railway network via Sakai Line's branch (between Sakaiminato and Yonago Station on San'in Main Line).

The city is home of Shigeru Mizuki, creator of GeGeGe no Kitaro, the popular character seen in plenty of forms throughout Japan. Kitaro's spirit can be found in Sakaiminato, on the street dedicated to all characters which appear in Mizuki's stories, Kitaro Road. 100 bronze statues of characters line both sides of Kitaro Road.

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Taking the Ferry From Japan to Russia (via Korea) Was Even More Bizarre Than Anticipated

April 10, 2018 by Silvia 21 Comments

I’ve been sitting here for a good five minutes typing, then deleting, then retyping an intro for this blog post. Usually I return from a journey full of stories I want to share with everyone – the more fun I had, the longer I’ll go on talking (seriously, my poor friends ). But this time… guys, I don’t even know where to begin.

Actually, that’s a good idea. Let’s go back to the beginning.

When my two year stint as an English teacher in Japan came to an end, I had a plan. I was going to travel up to Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost + my favorite prefecture, get the ferry across to Russia, and then take the Trans-Siberian Railway across to Europe.

Unfortunately this plan fell through – and by fell through I mean I was too scared to travel through Russian on my own – but I never forgot about it. In fact, if I were the type of person to carry around a list of travel regrets, this would have claimed the #1 spot, especially after I finally did make it onto the Trans-Siberian and realized that I totally could have done the journey alone.

You know where else I regret not going? Ethiopia! Though as life would have it, Danielle and my not going to Ethiopia meant that I could finally get on that ferry from Japan to Russia.

I’ve already explained it in this post , but basically after our trip to Morocco last year Danielle and I decided to return to Africa in March 2018 , but then when it came time to book flights I asked Danielle if we couldn’t maybe go to Japan and Russia instead, and she said yes. And so we headed to Hokkaido!

Except we didn’t head to Hokkaido, because it turned out that the ferry from Hokkaido only runs in the summertime, so we would have to take the ferry from Sakaiminato , farther south in Japan.

It was a little tricky to find any information about ferries from Japan to Russia, but eventually I found the DBS Cruise Ferry website , and a few emails later we were booked onto the Sakiminato – Vladivostok Eastern Dream ferry!

Our ferry left Sakaiminato on Saturday at 7 pm, arrived in Donghae, South Korea at 9 am the next morning, departed again at 2 pm, and arrived in Vladivostok at 6 pm on Monday (you can find the winter and summer schedules here ).

We booked a second class bed cabin, which according to the website looked like it would be a room with either 4, 8, or 12 people, so we were pleased to find that we had a twin room all to ourselves!

I made the reservation online via email, and then we paid in cash at the ferry terminal when picking up our tickets. With the 30% seasonal (winter) discount, my second class ticket cost 21,000 JPY (you can find the price chart here ). The woman I emailed was super helpful, so if you’re interested in taking the ferry and have questions, just email them!

The ticket price doesn’t include meals, but there’s a buffet that you can pay for on board, as well as a smaller café serving food and drinks throughout the day, and there’s free hot and cold drinking water provided.

I was curious to see who actually takes this ferry. Would it be mostly Koreans? Russians? Young people? Old people? Truck drivers? The DBS ferry is the “roro” type, which means you can bring a car on board, so I think a big draw for many people is getting to take their car across with them.

At least on my journey, most of the passengers were retirement-age Koreans, which I guess isn’t too surprising. I didn’t hear any Japanese on the journey from Japan, and only a little bit of Russian on the journey to Russia.

But I was even more curious what the atmosphere on the DBS cruise ferry would be like, and if the Japan -> South Korea leg would be much different than the South Korea -> Russia leg. You see, the only other overnight ferries I had taken were all in Scandinavia, where tax-free alcohol = party boat.

Judging from the small size of the duty free shop on board, which seemed to be closed for most of the journey, duty free shopping doesn’t seem to be as much of a draw here as in Scandinavia. So I figured that the lack of duty free combined with the older slant of the passengers would make this a much quieter journey than those in Scandinavia.

Oh how wrong I was:

So we pretty much spent the night dancing and taking selfies with our new Korean friends – none of whom seemed to speak any English or Japanese (or Russian).

And then the next morning we arrived in Donghae! The ferry terminal is close to what I guess was the city center – at least that’s where we saw the train station – and so we were quickly able to find a little restaurant for a very tasty Korean feast.

Then we popped into 7-11 to compare it to those in Japan and Thailand, and then headed back to the ferry terminal to use the WiFi before boarding again (there’s no Internet on board).

The journey from Donghae up to Vladivostok was less eventful, at least for me as I spent most of it in our cabin trying not to be sick.

You see, in an effort to keep a (sort of) comfortable distance from North Korea, the ferry headed farther out into the Sea of Japan, which made for some impressive waves. It wasn’t my favorite part of the journey, but I still managed to get an okay night’s sleep.

And then we woke up in what definitely looked like Russian waters:

I was surprised by how quick and easy getting through immigration in Vladivostok was, and then we stepped out of the ferry terminal into the center of what would quickly become my favorite city in Russia! But that’s a blog post for another day (Thursday).

What do you think, would you take the ferry from Japan to Russia instead of flying?

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April 10, 2018 at 3:43 pm

Thank you for another inspirational travel story. And yes, I would do it. But only after some seasickness meds!

Silvia says

April 11, 2018 at 3:31 pm

Ugh I wish I had had your foresight!

April 10, 2018 at 8:30 pm

Interesting trip! And now I get why so many signs include a Korean version in Japan…

Taking a shorter ferry from Hokkaido to Siberia? Maybe! Taking a two-day one? Not enough days off for that, I think…

I still really want to do the Hokkaido ferry, so I’ll report back if I do!

Kathryn says

April 11, 2018 at 12:57 pm

I probably would as I would love to go on the antartica cruise too so need to get used to boats but then again, I don’t like choppy seas!

It is cool that this option even exists though!

April 11, 2018 at 3:29 pm

Ooh this would be good training for that one!

Dominique | dominiquetravels.com says

April 12, 2018 at 9:33 pm

It looks like quite the experience! This combined with the Trans-Siberia express would make for an interesting adventure 🙂

April 21, 2018 at 12:08 pm

Yes that would be the ultimate trip!

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April 17, 2018 at 10:32 am

It seems great experience! You shared nice story and post! Your pictures looks amazing. Delicious food… Thank you so much for sharing a nice adventures..

April 17, 2018 at 11:36 am

You are very brave! Thanks for sharing.

Julian says

April 18, 2018 at 12:16 pm

what an interesting journey there with the ship, do you need visa when you were in DongHae?

April 21, 2018 at 12:01 pm

We were traveling with US and Norwegian passports, and neither require a visa for short visits to Korea.

June 1, 2018 at 8:53 am

hi do you have any information on taking the ferry from Hokkaido to Siberia? i would really like to try it out but i cant seem to find any information on it…

June 19, 2018 at 12:07 pm

it looks amazing i like to interest to go there can u tell us from vladivostok to moscow by train or road how long? thanks to know about it

June 20, 2018 at 11:15 am

I haven’t done it, but probably six or seven days by train.

Tomi Tölli says

July 7, 2018 at 10:32 am

Thanks for this! Good information! Around the world they seem to cancel ship routes, but this propably will still be valid September/ October 2018.

By the way, did you have your Russian visa before you were in Japan? Would you have an idea where to get one in Tokyo? For a Finnisih passport.

July 9, 2018 at 11:13 am

I got my visa in Norway before I left. As far as I know (at least for Norwegians), you can only get a Russian visa in your home country. Though maybe they’re more lenient towards Finns?

Euihyun Nam says

July 29, 2018 at 3:13 pm

Hi there ! i’ve read your article Interestingly. but there is a wrong expression. you mentioned ‘sea of Japan ‘ but that’s not correct! Korean people have called this sea as East sea for over thousand years based on old history books of Korea and Japan. but after the 20s, the empire of Japan wanted to expand their territory and get resources under the East sea due to their greed. Therefore i hope you to collect wrong expression

Duncan says

August 15, 2018 at 12:58 am

Did the trip Moscow Vladivostok by train then ferry to Japan via Donghae Wonderful trip !

Marianne says

May 27, 2019 at 10:41 pm

Loved the article! I am going to be on the JET Programme in Hokkaido from this August and I 100% plan on going to Russia from there! Do you know how much it might cost to go directly from one to the other? Everywhere I look I see different prices, often around £400… Also, do you have any other tips for the ferry journey?

May 31, 2019 at 10:53 pm

I don’t know anything about the Hokkaido ferry, but congrats on starting JET! Hokkaido would have been my top choice when I did JET, but I ended up on an island in the far south instead lol.

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Stock market today: Asian benchmarks mostly slide as investors focus on earnings

TOKYO — Asian shares mostly declined Thursday as investors awaited a flood of global earnings reports, including updates from U.S. tech companies known as the “Magnificent Seven.”

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 slid 1.4% in morning trading to 37,931.81. South Korea’s Kospi dropped nearly 1.0% to 2,649.96. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 0.5% to 17,282.67, while the Shanghai Composite edged 0.2% higher, to 3,049.90.

Trading was closed in Australia for a national holiday, Anzac Day.

Attention is also turning to the Bank of Japan, whose two-day monetary policy meeting started Thursday.

“For the record, heading into tomorrow’s policy decision, exceptional Japanese yen weakness is the agitated elephant in the room for the BoJ,” Tan Jing Yi of Mizuho Bank said in a commentary.

In currency trading, the U.S. dollar rose to 155.46 Japanese yen from 155.31 yen. The euro cost $1.0707, up from $1.0697.

The yen has been trading at 155 yen-levels lately, its lowest level in 34 years. That helps Japanese exporters by raising the value of their overseas earnings, but it also raises the price of imports. Speculation has been growing Japan may intervene to prop up the yen.

On Wall Street, the S&P 500 was virtually flat and edged up by 1.08, or less than 0.1%, to 5,071.63. It had jumped sharply in the first two days of the week to claw back nearly two-thirds of last week’s steep loss .

The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 42.77, or 0.1%, to 38,460.92, and the Nasdaq composite added 16.11, or 0.1%, to 15,712.75.

Tesla jumped 12.1% after saying the night before that it would accelerate production of new, more affordable vehicles , which investors have been hoping will kickstart growth. The announcement helped investors look past the 55% drop in profit that Tesla reported.

Tesla is the first of the group of stocks among the Magnificent Seven to report its results for the start of 2024. The focus is on the small group of stocks because they drove most of the U.S. stock market’s gain last year, and they’ll need to perform to justify their high prices.

Meta Platforms also reported its latest results after trading ended Wednesday. Alphabet and Microsoft will follow it a day later.

The hope is that profit growth will broaden beyond the Magnificent Seven to other types of companies, in large part because a remarkably solid U.S. economy. They’ll likely need to deliver fatter profits if they want their stock prices to rise. That’s because they’re unlikely to get much help from the other lever that can lift stock prices: interest rates.

“A strong earnings season looks likely to help restore market confidence,” according to Solita Marcelli, chief investment officer Americas at UBS Global Wealth Management.

A report Wednesday said orders for machinery, airplanes and other long-lasting manufactured goods were stronger last month than expected. A recent string of such reports has quashed hopes that the Federal Reserve may deliver the three cuts to interest rates this year that it had earlier signaled.

Boeing lost 2.9% despite reporting results that weren’t as bad as analysts feared . The company, which is battling criticism about the safety of its airplanes, said it’s taking steps to improve its manufacturing quality, which has slowed down production.

Teledyne Technologies tumbled 10.9% for one of the market’s largest losses after the seller of digital imaging sensors, cameras and other equipment reported weaker profit and revenue than forecast. It said demand from the industrial automation and test and measurement markets was weaker than it expected.

On the winning side of the market, Hasbro jumped 11.9% after the toy and game company reported better profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected. It benefited from growth delivered by its Baldur Gate 3 and Magic: The Gathering games, as well as by its Peppa Pig content.

Texas Instruments climbed 5.6% after reporting stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than forecast. Boston Scientific was another one of the stronger forces pushing upward on the S&P 500. It rose 5.7% after topping forecasts for profit and revenue.

In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude declined 15 cents to $82.66 a barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, fell 14 cents to $87.88 a barrel.

AP Business Writer Stan Choe contributed.

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Stock market today: Asian benchmarks mostly slide as investors focus on earnings

People walk in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly declined Thursday as investors awaited a flood of global earnings reports, including updates from U.S. tech companies known as the “Magnificent Seven.”

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 slid 1.4% in morning trading to 37,931.81. South Korea’s Kospi dropped nearly 1.0% to 2,649.96. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 0.5% to 17,282.67, while the Shanghai Composite edged 0.2% higher, to 3,049.90.

Trading was closed in Australia for a national holiday, Anzac Day.

Attention is also turning to the Bank of Japan, whose two-day monetary policy meeting started Thursday.

“For the record, heading into tomorrow’s policy decision, exceptional Japanese yen weakness is the agitated elephant in the room for the BoJ,” Tan Jing Yi of Mizuho Bank said in a commentary.

In currency trading, the U.S. dollar rose to 155.46 Japanese yen from 155.31 yen. The euro cost $1.0707, up from $1.0697.

The yen has been trading at 155 yen-levels lately, its lowest level in 34 years. That helps Japanese exporters by raising the value of their overseas earnings, but it also raises the price of imports. Speculation has been growing Japan may intervene to prop up the yen.

On Wall Street, the S&P 500 was virtually flat and edged up by 1.08, or less than 0.1%, to 5,071.63. It had jumped sharply in the first two days of the week to claw back nearly two-thirds of last week’s steep loss .

The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 42.77, or 0.1%, to 38,460.92, and the Nasdaq composite added 16.11, or 0.1%, to 15,712.75.

Tesla jumped 12.1% after saying the night before that it would accelerate production of new, more affordable vehicles , which investors have been hoping will kickstart growth. The announcement helped investors look past the 55% drop in profit that Tesla reported.

Tesla is the first of the group of stocks among the Magnificent Seven to report its results for the start of 2024. The focus is on the small group of stocks because they drove most of the U.S. stock market’s gain last year, and they’ll need to perform to justify their high prices.

Meta Platforms also reported its latest results after trading ended Wednesday. Alphabet and Microsoft will follow it a day later.

The hope is that profit growth will broaden beyond the Magnificent Seven to other types of companies, in large part because a remarkably solid U.S. economy. They’ll likely need to deliver fatter profits if they want their stock prices to rise. That’s because they’re unlikely to get much help from the other lever that can lift stock prices: interest rates.

“A strong earnings season looks likely to help restore market confidence,” according to Solita Marcelli, chief investment officer Americas at UBS Global Wealth Management.

A report Wednesday said orders for machinery, airplanes and other long-lasting manufactured goods were stronger last month than expected. A recent string of such reports has quashed hopes that the Federal Reserve may deliver the three cuts to interest rates this year that it had earlier signaled.

Boeing lost 2.9% despite reporting results that weren’t as bad as analysts feared . The company, which is battling criticism about the safety of its airplanes, said it’s taking steps to improve its manufacturing quality, which has slowed down production.

Teledyne Technologies tumbled 10.9% for one of the market’s largest losses after the seller of digital imaging sensors, cameras and other equipment reported weaker profit and revenue than forecast. It said demand from the industrial automation and test and measurement markets was weaker than it expected.

On the winning side of the market, Hasbro jumped 11.9% after the toy and game company reported better profit and revenue for the latest quarter than analysts expected. It benefited from growth delivered by its Baldur Gate 3 and Magic: The Gathering games, as well as by its Peppa Pig content.

Texas Instruments climbed 5.6% after reporting stronger profit and revenue for the latest quarter than forecast. Boston Scientific was another one of the stronger forces pushing upward on the S&P 500. It rose 5.7% after topping forecasts for profit and revenue.

In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude declined 15 cents to $82.66 a barrel. Brent crude, the international standard, fell 14 cents to $87.88 a barrel.

AP Business Writer Stan Choe contributed.