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Amami Park and the Tanaka Isson museum, Amami Oshima

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When it rains · Amami Oshima

The wet-day Amami: two museums and a hot lunch

Rain or rough weather. Timed from the gangway and back.

5 hr door to door7 stopsA wet day
Open the route in Google Maps, in 4 parts
Photo: TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋) / CC BY 2.0
Door to door
5 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Rain or rough weather
Room to spare
None
What it costs
about ¥14,000 out and back
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
Room to spare
Fits a 7-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
Taxis about ¥7,000 to Amami Park and about ¥7,000 back (city table), cash. Museums ¥400 and ¥630.

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 4 parts

  1. 1Your ship → Amami Museum, Nazeon foot
  2. 2Amami Museum, Naze → Amami Park and the Tanaka Isson Memorial Art Museumtrain or bus
  3. 3Amami Park and the Tanaka Isson Memorial Art Museum → Torishintrain or bus
  4. 4Torishin → Back to the shipon foot

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
    Walk or taxi to the Amami Museum (about 10 min on foot)

    Taxi 5 min, ¥600

  2. +0:10
    Amami Museum, all indoors

    Adult ¥400

    What you will see hereDirections from the ship (on foot)
  3. +1:10
    Taxi to Amami Park (about 50 min)

    Closed the first and third Wednesdays

  4. +2:00
    The Tanaka Isson Memorial Art Museum and the exhibition hall

    Common ticket adult ¥630

    What you will see hereDirections from the previous stop (train or bus)
    Amami Park and the Tanaka Isson museum, Amami Oshima
    Photo: TANAKA Juuyoh (田中十洋) / CC BY 2.0
  5. +3:30
    Taxi back to central Naze (about 50 min)
  6. +4:20
    Keihan lunch, hot broth on a wet day

    Check hours on the day

    What you will see hereDirections from the previous stop (train or bus)
    Keihan lunch in central Naze, Amami Oshima
    Photo: Kentaro Kuribayashi (kentaro) / CC BY 2.0
  7. +5:00
    Taxi back to the berth (10 min, ¥700)
    Ogamiyama viewpoint over Naze, Amami Oshima
    Photo: Vanquish0 / CC BY-SA 3.0
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 Amami Oshima

Keihan lunch in central Naze, Amami OshimaNaze on foot: the museum and a keihan lunchNeeds a 5-hour call · ~3hCalls of five hours or more, and anyone who wants the town rather than a long driveMangrove Park by canoe, Amami OshimaMangroves by canoe, then keihan in NazeNeeds a 7-hour call · ~5hA 7–9 hour call and a dry dayAmami Park and the Tanaka Isson museum, Amami OshimaAmami Park, Tanaka Isson and the north-coast beachesNeeds an 8.5-hour call · ~6.5hA long call (08:00–17:00 or longer) and a group to share the taxi
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