Photo: United States Marine Corps / Public domainDoor to door
5 hr 30 min
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 7.5-hour call or longer
Room to spare
None
What it costs
about ¥13,100 each way
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
- Best for
- A call of eight hours or more with the day’s first hours free: the cave opens at 09:00
- Room to spare
- Fits a 7.5-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
- A car to the cave and back, about ¥13,100 each way on the meter (our estimate); ask a sightseeing-taxi operator for a round-trip price. Cave ¥1,600 (¥1,900 at Golden Week and in July–August), Kikuya ¥650, castle ruins ¥220.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
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.
- +0:00Car from the landing to Akiyoshido (about 36 km, about 50 min, our estimate)
Book the car through the ship or a taxi operator before the call; none is confirmed waiting
- +0:55Akiyoshido: the 1 km route through the cave and back to the entrance
09:00–16:30 (08:30–17:30 at Golden Week); about 60 min inside, 90 min with the walk in and out; 17°C all year
Photo: United States Marine Corps / Public domain - +2:25Car back to Hagi’s castle town (about 50 min)Full guide: Hagi’s castle-town lanes and the Kikuya residence
Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +3:20The Kikuya residence and the lanes
09:00–17:00, adult ¥650
Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +4:20Walk to the castle ruins (1.2 km, about 20 min)
- +4:40Hagi Castle ruins and Shizuki Park
Adult ¥220
Full guide: Hagi Castle ruins and Shizuki Park
Photo: renfield kuroda / CC BY-SA 2.0 - +5:20Walk to the Hakkei pier (about 4 min)
- +5:30Back at the tender pier
Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0
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.
What the day looks like
Hagi, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
Other routes
The other routes in Hagi
The castle ruins and the old lanes, on footNeeds a 4.5-hour call · ~2.5hAny call of 4.5 hours or more, from the tender pier; a ship that docks adds a taxi of about 15 minutes each wayCastle, lanes and the Shoin Shrine sideNeeds a 6-hour call · ~4hTimes assume a 07:00–18:00 call, as the prefecture listed for Heritage Adventurer, Island Sky and SH Minerva: ashore by 07:30 or 08:30, back at the pier by 16:30. Check your own ship’s hours
Three roofs: the museum, the Kikuya residence and Meirin GakushaA wet day · ~3.5hA wet day on any call of 5.5 hours or more