Maizuru Akarenga Park in Kyoto: Red Brick Warehouses, the Brick Museum and a Harbor Cruise

The red brick warehouses went up between nineteen oh one and nineteen twenty-one as storehouses for military supplies of the Maizuru Naval District. Eleven surviving warehouses are two-storey brick, one is steel-frame brick, and eight were designated national Important Cultural Properties in Heisei twenty. Black dye on one outer wall is wartime paint, applied so it would not stand out.

Getting to Maizuru Akarenga Park

Leg	How	Time or fare
Kyoto Station to Higashi-Maizuru Ekimae	Highway bus	About one hour fifty minutes. An adult one-way fare of two thousand six hundred yen
Kyoto to Maizuru	Limited express train	About one hour forty minutes
Osaka to Maizuru	Train via Kyoto	About two hours twenty minutes
Higashi-Maizuru Station to the City Hall stop	City loop bus	About ten minutes
Maizuru-Higashi Interchange to the Red Brick Museum	Car	About six kilometers, about ten minutes

Travelers coming from Kyoto or Osaka who would rather not head back the same evening can look at places to stay in Maizuru.

The various IC cards do not work on Kyoto Kotsu route buses in the Maizuru area. The paid parking lot stays available twenty-four hours a day all year round, with room for five hundred standard cars and seven large buses.

The Brick Museum and Building Four

Step into the Red Brick Museum, a steel-frame brick structure built in Meiji thirty-six as a torpedo warehouse of the former Maizuru Navy. Inside, bricks used in structures around the world are on display, and a corner that recreates a Hoffmann kiln shows how bricks were made.

If you also go into Building Four, you are inside a brick warehouse put up in nineteen oh two for the ordnance depot of the former Navy. In April of two thousand sixteen the site became a Japan Heritage under a title that links the naval districts of Yokosuka, Kure, Sasebo and Maizuru.

Hours, Admission and Closures

• Come between nine in the morning and five in the afternoon, when the park is open.
• The Red Brick Museum keeps the same hours, nine in the morning to five in the afternoon.
• Last admission to the museum is at half past four in the afternoon.
• The museum is closed from the twenty-ninth of December to the first of January.

• Museum admission is four hundred yen for general visitors and one hundred fifty yen for students from elementary school to university.
• A combined ticket covering the museum and the Maizuru Hikiage Memorial Museum costs six hundred yen for adults and two hundred yen for students.

The Harbor Cruise from the Museum

Buy a boarding ticket for the harbor cruise at the counter inside the Red Brick Museum, where sales begin at nine in the morning. Tickets for each sailing need to be in hand at least twenty minutes before departure.

• On weekdays, Monday to Friday, there are three departures, at eleven in the morning, one in the afternoon and two in the afternoon.
• The ride on the water takes about thirty minutes.
• The adult fare is one thousand eight hundred yen including tax.
• Children aged three to twelve pay nine hundred yen including tax.

These departure times run from the fourteenth of March to the twenty-seventh of December.

Maizuru Hikiage Memorial Museum

If you want to add the Maizuru Hikiage Memorial Museum to the day, avoid Wednesdays, when it is closed, and the year-end break from the twenty-ninth of December to the first of January. It opens from nine in the morning to five in the afternoon, with entry until half past four in the afternoon.

• Admission costs four hundred yen for general visitors and one hundred fifty yen for students.

Goro Sky Tower and Where to Stay

Finish the day up on Goro-dake, where an observation tower named Goro Sky Tower stands on the summit. Between December and March the tower is open from nine in the morning to five in the afternoon.

• Adults pay three hundred yen.
• Elementary and junior high school students pay one hundred fifty yen.
• Entry ends thirty minutes before closing.

Anyone who wants to stay overnight by the bay instead of heading back can look at a place to stay in Maizuru.