Photo: Shiro4873 / CC BY 3.0Door to door
4 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 6-hour call or longer
Room to spare
None
What it costs
¥400 for the first fare
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
- Best for
- Calls with five hours or more ashore, any day of the week. Start by 12:30 so that you reach the keep before its last entry at 16:30 (16:00 in December and January)
- Room to spare
- Fits a 6-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
- Train ¥400 and tram ¥250 each way; ropeway ¥520 return; keep ¥520. Shuttle or taxi to Mitsu Station extra (taxi about ¥1,000, our estimate).
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.
- +0:00Shuttle or taxi from the quay to Iyotetsu Mitsu Station (2 km)
Princess ran a paid shuttle in 2026; other lines: check the daily programme
- +0:20Train to Matsuyama-shi Station, 15 min, ¥400
Every 15 minutes through the day
- +0:40Tram towards Dogo Onsen; get off at Okaido, ¥250Full guide: Dogo Onsen from the cruise berth
- +0:55Walk up Ropeway Street to the Shinonome-guchi station, about 5 min
Tourist information on the ground floor, 08:30–17:00
Full guide: Matsuyama Castle from the cruise berth - +1:05Ropeway or chairlift up, ¥520 return, then about 8 min uphill to the keep
The chairlift does not run in rain
Photo: Shiro4873 / CC BY 3.0 - +1:25Matsuyama Castle keep, ¥520, and the view over the city to the Inland Sea
09:00–17:00; to 16:30 in December and January
Photo: Zairon / CC BY 4.0 - +2:25Down by ropeway and back to Okaido
- +2:50Tram to Matsuyama-shi Station and the train to Mitsu
Trains at :00, :15, :30 and :45
- +3:25Shuttle or taxi from Mitsu Station to the quay
- +3:45Back 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
Matsuyama, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
Other routes
The other routes in Matsuyama
Dogo Onsen: the Honkan bath, the clock and lunchNeeds a 7.5-hour call · ~5.5hCalls with six hours or more ashore, any day of the week. The Honkan takes no reservations for the ¥700 bath and can have a queue
The castle in the morning, Dogo Onsen after lunchNeeds a 9-hour call · ~7hCalls of nine hours, such as 08:00–17:00: ashore at 08:30 and back at the gangway by 15:30. On a 07:00–16:00 call start at 07:30 and reach the ropeway for its 08:30 opening
Under a roof: the Honkan bath, Bansuiso and the museum next doorA wet day · ~6hA wet day, except a Monday, when Bansuiso and the museum are closed. The castle chairlift stops in rain; the ropeway runs