Base Travel Tsuruga

Day trips from Tsuruga

Leave at 07:05. Be in Kyoto at 08:02. Leave Kyoto at 21:21. Be back by 22:16.

13 hours and 19 minutes in Kyoto.

And you don't have to use all of them.

Not just the middle of the day. You arrive at eight in the morning. At nine at night you can still be finishing dinner.

What happens between those two ends is yours.

Stay all day. Come back after lunch. Change your mind at five.

You don't have to pick a train in the morning.

You went to Kyoto on Tuesday. You liked it.

Go again on Friday.

Take the same train. Get off at the same station. Go back to the place you didn't have time for.

Or go nowhere near it, and spend the day somewhere else in the same city.

On a trip that keeps moving, going back means retracing your route. Your bag has moved on. Your next hotel is somewhere else.

Your base is still where you left it.

It's just Friday.

You wake up in Tsuruga and you haven't decided where you're going.

North
and you're in Kanazawa before ten.
South
and you're in Kyoto just after nine.

Trains run both ways all morning. You can leave at eight and still have the whole day.

You didn't change your itinerary.

You hadn't made that part of it yet.

07:27 Tsuruga. 10:37 Tokyo.

One train. No change. You can be back the same night — the last direct train leaves Tokyo at 20:00.

Or stay two nights.

Take a small bag. Leave the rest in Tsuruga.

Then come back.

A base isn't where you sleep every night. It's where you come back to.

All destinations

Last direct back
Fukui
about 20 min
23:10
Kyoto
about 55 min
21:21
Kanazawa
under 1 hr
22:34
Toyama
about 80 min
22:10
Osaka
about 85 min
20:54
Nagoya
about 100 min
19:48
Tokyo
about 3¼ hrs
20:00

All of these are direct. None needs a change of train.

Regular daily services only. Excludes seasonal and limited-date services. Timetables verified September 2026.