Photo: Opqr / CC BY-SA 3.0Door to door
3 hr 30 min
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Wet weather — and subtropical rain arrives fast and hard
Room to spare
None
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
~¥1,000 pp
Museum ~¥200.
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups
Timed from the gangway with the port's official timetables · updated · Takumi Yamada
Numbers follow the route below. Pins are the places themselves; walking lines are not drawn because the best way between two stops can change with the tram, the tide or the weather.
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.
- +0:00Shuttle in, then Euglena Mall
Covered arcade, 3–5 min from the ferry terminal drop-off
What you will see hereFull guide: The town - +0:30The public market, both floors
Fish, awamori, salt, chilli oil, and lunch upstairs
What you will see hereFull guide: The town
Photo: pelican from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY-SA 2.0 - +1:30Yaeyama Museum
Small, indoors, and the only place that explains the 1771 tsunami properly. ¥200; closed Mondays and holidays
What you will see hereFull guide: Yaeyama Museum
Photo: pelican from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY-SA 2.0 - +2:15Ishigaki beef for lunch, then minsah weaving shops
Both indoors and both genuinely local
What you will see here
Photo: Ken FUNAKOSHI / CC BY-SA 2.0 - +3:15Back to the ship
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
Ishigaki, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
Different hours, different day