20 steps from the front door you can go left or right for blocks and there are restaurants, bars, clothin,,shops shoe stores, pharmacies, corner stores everywhere. Its a 10min mostly flat walk from the train station. Another 10 min walk the other way again flat is the harbour and its busy, tour boats, sailboats, mega yachts, cruise ships, freighters, navy ships. And its the gateway to Cinque Terre a beautiful National Park