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For a 6-hour call · HagiCastle, lanes and the Shoin Shrine side
Times 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. Timed from the gangway and back.
- Best for
- Times 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
- 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 ¥1,500 out and ¥2,000 back (our estimates). Castle ruins ¥220, Kikuya ¥650, Kido house ¥100, Tokoji ¥300; Shoin Shrine and Shokasonjuku free.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
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.
- +0:00Land at the tender pier beside Shizuki Bridge and walk to the castle ruins (about 4 min)
- +0:05Hagi Castle ruins and Shizuki Park
Adult ¥220
Full guide: Hagi Castle ruins and Shizuki ParkPhoto: renfield kuroda / CC BY-SA 2.0 - +0:45Walk to the castle-town lanes (1.2 km, about 20 min)Full guide: Hagi’s castle-town lanes and the Kikuya residence
Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +1:05The Kikuya residence
09:00–17:00, adult ¥650
Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +1:45Kido Takayoshi’s house and Kikuya lane
¥100
Photo: m-louis .® / CC BY-SA 2.0 - +2:05Taxi to Shoin Shrine (3.1 km, about 10 min, about ¥1,500, our estimate)
No rank is confirmed in the lanes: ask a museum desk to call a cab
Full guide: Shokasonjuku academy and Shoin Shrine - +2:20Shokasonjuku and Shoin Shrine
Free; the academy is seen from outside
What you will see here
Photo: m-louis .® / CC BY-SA 2.0 - +2:55Walk to Tokoji (1.2 km, about 20 min)
- +3:15Tokoji: the gate, the main hall and the lantern-lined Mori graves
08:30–17:00, ¥300; part of the graveyard is closed after a tree fell
- +3:45Taxi back to the Hakkei pier (4.7 km, about 15 min, about ¥2,000, our estimate)
Ask the temple desk to call one
- +4:00Back at the tender pier
Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0
Hagi, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
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 way
Akiyoshido cave, then the castle townNeeds a 7.5-hour call · ~5.5hA call of eight hours or more with the day’s first hours free: the cave opens at 09:00
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