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For a 6-hour call · Aburatsu

Obi castle town by taxi

Calls of 6 hours or more. Timed from the gangway and back.

4 hr door to door7 stopsNeeds a 6-hour call
Open the route in Google Maps, in 2 parts
Photo: z tanuki / CC BY 3.0
Door to door
4 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 6-hour call or longer
Room to spare
None
What it costs
about ¥4,500 each way
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
Best for
Calls of 6 hours or more. With the train instead, leave JR Aburatsu at 08:53 or 10:59 and come back on the 13:14 or 15:00 from Obi. The houses are open 09:30–17:00, last entry 16:30
Room to spare
Fits a 6-hour stop with nothing to add (off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, back at the gangway an hour before all-aboard). A longer call gives you the extra time; on this one, do not add a stop.
What it costs
Two taxis, about ¥4,500 each way (our estimate). Six houses ¥800 on the combined ticket, or ¥1,600 with five food vouchers.

Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada

Numbers follow the route below. Pins are the places themselves; walking lines are not drawn because the best way between two stops can change with the tram, the tide or the weather.

Open in Google Maps, in 2 parts

  1. 1Your ship → Obi Castle Otemon gatetrain or bus
  2. 2Obi Castle Otemon gate → Back to the shiptrain or bus

Google Maps on a phone takes three stops between start and end, and none on a train or bus route, so the day opens in parts. Each step below also has its own directions.

The route

How the day runs

Times are from the moment you step off, not from the scheduled arrival. Everything shifts if your ship is late; the order does not.

  1. +0:00
    Taxi from the quay to the Obi tourist car park by the Otemon gate (12 km, about 20 min, about ¥4,500, our estimate)

    Agree a pickup time with the driver: no rank in Obi is confirmed

  2. +0:25
    Buy the Ayumi-chan food-walk ticket at the car park ticket office

    ¥1,600 adult with all six houses; ¥1,000 with two houses

  3. +0:35
    Otemon gate, the cedar grove on the old keep site, Matsuo-no-maru and the castle history museum

    Castle grounds free

    Directions from the ship (train or bus)Full guide: Obi castle town
    Obi castle town, Aburatsu
    Photo: z tanuki / CC BY 3.0
  4. +1:45
    Yoshokan, the lord’s residence and its garden, then the samurai lanes
  5. +2:30
    Obi-ten and lunch at Obiten Kura by the gate, or snacks on the food vouchers

    Obiten Kura 09:00–17:00, last order 16:00; its Hana set is booked the day before

    What you will see here
  6. +3:30
    Taxi back to the quay (about 20 min)
  7. +3:55
    Back at the gangway
The margin is not optional. This route ends an hour before all-aboard on purpose. If you are running late, drop the last stop, not the hour.
Other routes

The other routes in Aburatsu

The Horikawa Canal and its bridges, AburatsuAburatsu town: the canal, the Carp station and katsuoNeeds a 5-hour call · ~2.75hShort calls and late arrivals; lunch needs 11:00 or later. Bibinya is closed on Mondays, at the end of the month on Tuesdays too, and on 23 and 30 March 2027Udo Jingu, the shrine in a sea cave, AburatsuUdo Jingu, the moai and Obi in one taxi dayNeeds an 8.5-hour call · ~6.25hAn 08:00–17:00 call on any day but Wednesday (Sun Messe closes). Times assume off the ship at 08:30 and back by 15:30, an hour before a 16:30 all-aboardObi castle town, AburatsuA wet day in Obi: museums, houses and obi-tenA wet day · ~4hA wet day: the history museum, the Komura Memorial Hall and the old houses are under a roof, and the lanes are short
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