Photo: 長曽我部政幸 / CC BY-SA 4.0Door to door
3 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 5-hour call or longer
Any call. Everything is outdoors and open at any hour
Room to spare
None
What it costs
¥16,680
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
- Room to spare
- Fits a 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 taxi kept for three hours, ¥16,680 for the car (tourism association’s cruise-day rate). All three sights 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 the Umagase car park (5.5 km, our estimate)
A rank on the quay is not confirmed and taxis run short on cruise days: phone a company before the call
Photo: 長曽我部政幸 / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +0:20Umagase: the glass-floored Sukeruccha deck, then 2 min on to the lookout at the tip
Free. The Hososhima Lighthouse is on the same path
Photo: 長曽我部政幸 / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +1:10Drive 1.3 km to the Sea of the Cross lookout
Free; a bell to ring for a wish
What you will see here
Photo: 長曽我部政幸 / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +1:40Drive 3.8 km to Omi Shrine and the Udo cave
Free. In the cave, look back at the entrance from the small shrine: it has the outline of a rising dragon
What you will see here
Photo: daisymind / CC BY 4.0 - +2:35Drive 3.0 km back to the quay
- +3:00Back 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
The 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
A wet day: Mimitsu’s merchant houses and the Hososhima Minato MuseumA wet day · ~4.5hA wet day on any call except a Monday. The cape lookouts are open headlands and Takachiho’s boats stop after heavy rain