Photo: renfield kuroda / CC BY-SA 2.0Door to door
2 hr 30 min
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 4.5-hour call or longer
Room to spare
None
What it costs
Nothing
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
- Best for
- Any call of 4.5 hours or more, from the tender pier; a ship that docks adds a taxi of about 15 minutes each way
- Room to spare
- Fits a 4.5-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
- Nothing. Castle ruins ¥220, Kikuya residence ¥650, Kido Takayoshi’s house ¥100.
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 the castle ruins gate (300 m, about 4 min, our estimate)
The sightseeing-boat pier the prefecture named as Le Jacques Cartier’s landing; check the daily programme for yours
- +0:05Hagi Castle ruins and Shizuki Park: the moat, the base of the keep, the stone walls
Apr–Oct 08:00–18:30, Nov–Feb 08:30–16:30, Mar 08:30–18:00; adult ¥220
Full guide: Hagi Castle ruins and Shizuki ParkPhoto: renfield kuroda / CC BY-SA 2.0 - +0:50Walk east to the castle-town lanes (1.2 km, about 20 min, our estimate)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: the merchant house and its garden
09:00–17:00, last entry 16:45, adult ¥650
Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +1:50Kido Takayoshi’s house, 2 min away, then Kikuya lane
09:00–17:00, ¥100
Photo: m-louis .® / CC BY-SA 2.0 - +2:15Walk back to the Hakkei pier (1 km, about 15 min)
- +2:30Back at the tender pier
Allow for the tender ride on top of this
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
Castle, 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
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