Kaiwo Maru Park at Toyama Shinko Port 海王丸パーク・富山新港
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Toyama Prefecture's main port is actually three separate ports collectively named Fushiki Toyama Port (伏木富山港). The three ports are Fushiki Port (伏木港) in Takaoka, Toyama Port (富山港) in Toyama city, and Toyama Shinko Port.
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Cruise ships usually dock here at Toyama Shinko Port (富山新港). In Oct. 2014, Toyama Bay was admitted to the "Most Beautiful Bays In The World Club." This is one monument for it. https://world-bays.com/category/bays/asia/japan/
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Toyama Shinko Port (also called Toyama New Port) has a major tourist attraction in the Kaiwo Maru (海王丸) museum ship brought here in July 1992.
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Kaiwo Maru was built in 1930 as an officer training ship for Japan's merchant marine. Its sister ship was the original Nippon Maru sailing ship also built in 1930 as a training ship. Kaiwo Maru was retired in 1989 and replaced by a new Kaio Mar
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The Kaiwo Maru was launched on Feb. 14, 1930, Valentine's Day, so people have associated the ship with love. Yumi Katsura Lover's Sanctuary Monument and Kaiwo Maru in the background.
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Yumi Katsura Lover's Sanctuary Monument built in 2006. Yumi Katsura is a wedding dress designer.
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Monument for awards bestowed on Kaiwo Maru Park for waterfront park design and concept.
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Kaiwo Maru Park sign of love especially for Valentine's Day.
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Kaiwo Maru and a Japanese cruise ship at Toyama Shinko Port.
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About 10 times a year, they unfurl Kaio Maru's sails. Lucky if you see it with all the sails out.
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For a small admission fee, you can board and tour inside Kaiwo Maru. Well worth it.
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Bow of Kaiwo Maru.
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Stern of Kaiwo Maru.
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Gangway to board Kaiwo Maru.
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About Kaiwo Maru. It's 97 meters long. "Kaiwo" (or Kaio) means "King of the Seas."
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Brief history of Kaiwo Maru.
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Boarding the Kaiwo Maru museum ship.
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Visitors can tour the top deck (forecastle and poop decks), upper deck, and 2nd deck. Upper deck has the dining/lecture room, Captain's quarters, and officer's saloon. The 2nd deck has cadet cabins.
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Walking on the top deck.
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The stairs go to the bridge.
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Inside the bridge of the Kaiwo Maru.
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Forward view from the bridge of the Kaiwo Maru.
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Inside the bridge.
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Map charts inside the bridge.
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Magnetic compass on the bridge.
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Radar inside the bridge.
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Radar
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Speed control
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Life boat
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Narrow bridge to the bow.
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Forecastle deck near the bow.
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Forecastle deck
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Bow
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Kaiwo Maru Park as seen from the bow.
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On the right is a speaking tube.
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Kaiwo Maru Park as seen from the bow.
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Anchor
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Bridge
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Cadet entrance to go below.
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Stairway to go below deck.
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On the 2nd deck which is the cadet's quarters.
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Cadet's cabin with 8 bunk beds. They spent 6 months at sea as trainees.
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Cadet's cabin with bunk beds 185 cm long and 65 cm wide. This is smaller than the standard futon (90 cm x 200 cm) we sleep on today.
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Plaques from various ports including Hawaii.
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Helmets and other gear used by cadets.
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Knots
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Staircase to upper deck.
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Hallway on upper deck.
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Hallway on upper deck.
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Cook's cabin. Four bunk beds and a round window. Crew cabins were a little roomier than cadet cabins.
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Head nurse
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Medical clinic
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Dispensary
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Love Sanctuary. Perhaps many visiting couples kissed or hugged each other here.
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Love Sanctuary room. The Kaiwo Maru was launched on Feb. 14 Valentine's Day, so people have associated the ship with love.
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Mess hall for engine crew.
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Mess hall for engine crew.
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Staircase to upper deck.
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Galley
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Dining/lecture room on upper deck.
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Dining/lecture room on upper deck.
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Dining/lecture room.
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Skylight in above the dining/lecture room.
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Captain's quarters is a two-room suite plus bathroom. This is his Day Room with three windows.
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Captain's Day Room. Door on the right goes to his bedroom.
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Captain's Day Room has a oiran Japanese doll.
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Captain's Day Room has a oiran Japanese doll.
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List of all Kaiwo Maru captains from 1930 to 1989. Most served only one to three years.
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Captain's bedroom.
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Captain's bedroom and desk.
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Captain's bathroom and toilet too.
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Chief Officer's cabin is only one room with two windows
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Chief Officer's desk.
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Jr. Third Officer's cabin.
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Chief Radio Officer's quarters. No Internet in those days.
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Chief Radio Officer's desk.
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Senior Navigation Professor's cabin.
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Senior Navigation Professor's cabin.
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Plaque from Hilo, Hawaii for Kaiwo Maru's July 1988 visit.
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Officer's saloon where ship officers dined and held meetings.
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Officer's saloon where ship officers dined and held meetings. Very luxurious. This is the head table where the captain would sit in the middle.
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It says 開拓 or "Pave the Way."
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Officer's saloon
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Galley for officers.
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Purser's Office
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Senior Engineering Professor's cabin.
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Staircase to top deck.
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Skylight over the dining/lecture hall.
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Steering wheel selfie spot.
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Steering wheel was controlled by two or four sailors.
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Life boats and funnel.
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Kaiwo Maru Park
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Also in Kaiwo Maru Park is the Japan Sea Culture Center (日本海交流センター) has an exhibition space showing models of sailing ships from around the world. (世界の帆船模型展)
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Inside Japan Sea Culture Center (日本海交流センター) showing models of sailing ships from around the world.
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Scale model of the new Kaiwo Maru.
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Scale model of Kaiwo Maru.
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Types of sailing ships.
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In Oct. 2014, Toyama Bay was designated as one of the most beautiful bays in the world.
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Types of ships.
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History of Toyama Shinko Port.
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Construction of Shin-Minato Ohashi Bridge at Toyama Shinko Port.
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Design of Shin-Minato Ohashi Bridge.
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Battleship Yamato too.
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Japan Sea Culture Center (日本海交流センター) exhibition space. It's also a community center with meeting rooms, etc.
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Outside the Japan Sea Culture Center, anchors are displayed.
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Kaiwo Maru's spare propeller and capstan.
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Tree planted to mark the Most Beautiful Bays In The World Club meeting held in Toyama in Oct. 2019.
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Monument for a poem by Emperor Akihito when he visited here in 2015 for the Marine Environment Convention. It refers to deep-sea fish fry (which he released) growing up in Toyama.
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Shin-Minato Ohashi Bridge at Toyama Shinko Port. Cruise ships don't pass under it.
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Japanese cruise ship and flowers at Toyama Shinko Port.
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Kaiwo Maru museum ship and Japanese cruise ship at Toyama Shinko Port.
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