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When it rains · HososhimaA wet day: Mimitsu’s merchant houses and the Hososhima Minato Museum
A wet day on any call except a Monday. The cape lookouts are open headlands and Takachiho’s boats stop after heavy rain. Timed from the gangway and back.
4 hr 30 min door to door7 stopsA wet day
Door to door
4 hr 30 min
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Room to spare
None
What it costs
about ¥5,200
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
- Best for
- A wet day on any call except a Monday. The cape lookouts are open headlands and Takachiho’s boats stop after heavy rain
- Room to spare
- Fits a 6.5-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
- Taxi about ¥5,200 to Mimitsu and about the same back, our estimates. Museums ¥220 each; the Machinami Center and Mimitsu-ken are free.
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.
- +0:00Taxi from the quay to Mimitsu (13.9 km, our estimate)
Keep the car or fix a pick-up time: no taxis wait in Mimitsu
- +0:25Mimitsu Machinami Center and Mimitsu-ken, two restored merchant houses
9:00–16:30, free
Photo: Sanjo / Public domain - +1:10Hyuga City History and Folklore Museum, a former shipping agent’s house
9:00–16:30, ¥220
- +1:50Drive about 13 km to the Hososhima Minato Museum, a three-storey wooden former inn
9:00–16:30, last entry 16:00, ¥220; closed Mondays
- +2:40Walk to Umi-no-Eki Hososhima, close by, for lunch
Opens 11:00, last order 14:00; closed Mondays and the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays
- +3:50Taxi 2.2 km back to the quay
- +4:30Back at the gangway
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
Hososhima, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
Other routes
The other routes in Hososhima
Cape Hyuga: Umagase, the Sea of the Cross and Omi ShrineNeeds a 5-hour call · ~3hAny call. Everything is outdoors and open at any hourThe cape, a seafood bowl at the harbour and Mimitsu old townNeeds an 8-hour call · ~6hCalls of 8 hours or more on a Wednesday to Sunday, or a Tuesday that is not the 1st or 3rd of the month; on an 11:00 arrival eat first, as the last order is 14:00
Takachiho Gorge and Manai FallsNeeds a 9-hour call · ~7hCalls of 9 hours or more in port: Seabourn Encore (08:00–18:00), Seven Seas Explorer (07:00–17:00), Asuka III (10:30–19:30). Not a 7.5-hour call