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Earthen walls and natsumikan by bicycle

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Earthen walls and natsumikan by bicycle, Hagi

Earthen walls and natsumikan by bicyclePhoto: m-louis .® / CC BY-SA 2.0

Natsumikan reached Hagi around 1804.

Round trip
2 hr
From the ship and back
Fits
a 4-hour call or longer
Margin already counted
Getting there
Rental cycles by the castle ruins, a 5-minute walk from the tender pier (open irregularly, ¥300 an hour), or at the tourist office in Hagi Meirin Gakusha
See the rides below
Booking
Just turn up
Nothing to reserve

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

Why go

Hagi is flat and its old quarters are a few minutes apart by bicycle. In Horiuchi a lane turns at right angles between high earthen walls, a kaimagari, so that no one can see along it. Natsumikan hang over the walls: samurai families planted them from 1876 after losing their stipends. Blossom is in early to mid May. Kankitsu Park in Hiyako has about 380 citrus trees and is free, 09:00–17:00.

Why it earns the hours
  • Short enough to be certain of: 2 hr door to door, so even a tender day works.
  • Reachable on foot from the berth, so no timetable can strand you.
Before you count on it
  • 2 hr door to door needs a 4-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
The arithmetic

Where the 2 hr goes

The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside. The minutes are our estimates from timetables and maps, not timed on the ground.

Out5 minRental cycles by the castle ruins, a 5-minute walk from the tender pier (open irregularly, ¥300 an hour), or at the tourist office in Hagi Meirin Gakusha
There1 hr 50 minWhat you came for
Back5 minTo the gangway

If your ship is late, cut the 1 hr 50 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.

The day this belongs to

Routes that already include it

Finished days timed from official timetables and our estimates, with this stop in them.

The castle ruins and the old lanes, on foot, HagiThe castle ruins and the old lanes, on footNeeds a 4.5-hour call · ~2.5h door to doorAny call of 4.5 hours or more, from the tender pier; a ship that docks adds a taxi of about 15 minutes each way
Pairs well with

What to put beside it

Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.

Build your own day
The moat and stone walls of Hagi Castle’s main enclosure3 hr for both

Hagi Castle ruins and Shizuki Park

Mori Terumoto built his castle here in 1604, at the foot of Mt Shizuki.

See the detailThe Hagi Hakkei boat, Hagi3 hr for both

The Hagi Hakkei boat

A small roofed boat starts beside the castle ruins and follows the Hashimoto River past the walls of the Horiuchi and Hiyako samurai quarters; in calm weather it goes out to sea off Kikugahama.

See the detailHagi-yaki pottery, Hagi3 hr for both

Hagi-yaki pottery

Hagi’s soft, plain stoneware has been made for more than 400 years.

See the detail
The one rule: be back on board 60 minutes before all-aboard. Build the whole day on the Hagi plan page.
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