Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0Door to door
3 hr 30 min
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
A wet day on any call of 5.5 hours or more
Room to spare
None
What it costs
¥100 for the first fare
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
- Room to spare
- Fits a 5.5-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
- One Maaru bus, ¥100, or a taxi, about ¥1,200 (our estimate). Hagi Museum ¥520, Kikuya ¥650, Meirin Gakusha main building free, No.2 building ¥300.
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.
- +0:00Land at the tender pier beside Shizuki Bridge and walk to Hagi Museum (850 m, about 15 min, our estimate)
- +0:15Hagi Museum: the town’s history and the Takasugi Shinsaku room
09:00–17:00, last entry 16:30, adult ¥520; closed on Wednesdays from January to mid-March and Wednesday–Friday of the second week of June
- +1:05Walk to the Kikuya residence (400 m, about 6 min)Full guide: Hagi’s castle-town lanes and the Kikuya residence
Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +1:10The Kikuya residence
09:00–17:00, adult ¥650
Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +1:50Walk to Hagi Meirin Gakusha (900 m, about 15 min)
- +2:05Hagi Meirin Gakusha: the wooden school on the site of the domain school, with the tourist office
09:00–17:00; main building free, No.2 building ¥300
Photo: m-louis .® / CC BY-SA 2.0 - +2:50Maaru bus, west route, from Hagi Meirin Center to Hagi Castle Ruins·Shizuki Park Entrance (about 25 min, ¥100)
Every 45 min: 10:01, 10:46, 11:31, 12:16, 13:01, 13:46, 14:31, 15:16, 16:01. A taxi is about ¥1,200
Full guide: Hagi Castle ruins and Shizuki Park - +3:20Walk 5 min from the stop; back 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
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