Hells + heights

Calls of 10 hours or more — the circuit, the ropeway, the mineral hills. Timed from the gangway and back.

7 hr 30 min door to door5 stopsNeeds a 9.5-hour call

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Photo: Simon Desmarais / CC BY-SA 2.0

Door to door

7 hr 30 min

From the gangway and back

Best for

A 9.5-hour call or longer

Calls of 10 hours or more — the circuit, the ropeway, the mineral hills

Room to spare

None

Fits a 9.5-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

~¥3,000 pp

Taxi legs ~¥3,000 pp; tickets as above — cash for the small vents.

Booking

Nothing

Every stop here takes walk-ups

Timed from the gangway with the port's official timetables · updated 6 November 2026 · 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.

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.

+0:00
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+3:30
Taxi up to Myoban — yunohana huts
Thatched mineral farms, 300 years old
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+4:15
Jigoku-steamed pudding at Okamotoya
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+5:00
Mt. Tsurumi ropeway (weather permitting)
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+6:30
Taxi down to the port
About 20 minutes. Fits a 10-hour call, with the hour before all-aboard kept free