Momiji manju at FujiiyaPhoto: Travis / CC BY 2.0
Momiji manju take the shape of a maple leaf, after the maples of Momijidani.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
Momiji manju are small maple-leaf cakes filled with bean paste, the island’s standard gift. Fujiiya’s main shop on Omotesando opens 9:30–17:30, though the shop says hours can change, and has a tea room open 9:30–17:00.
- Short enough to be certain of: 45 min door to door, so even a tender day works.
- Reachable on foot from the berth, so no timetable can strand you.
- It is a view, so it is weather. Check the morning sky before you commit the hours.
The place to have it
| Place | What you get |
|---|---|
| The famous oneFujiiya Miyajima Honten藤い屋 宮島本店 | Momiji manju at 1129 Miyajima-cho, on Omotesando. 9:30–17:30; the shop says hours can change. Its tea room is open 9:30–17:00. |
Each name opens in Google Maps. Opening days change; check before you build a day around one.
Momiji manju at Fujiiya and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Routes that already include it
Finished days timed from official timetables and our estimates, with this stop in them.
The shrine and the gateNeeds a 4-hour call · ~2h door to doorAny call, including the morning calls that sail at 11:30 or 12:00. The shrine opens at 6:30Ropeway to Mount Misen, then the shrineNeeds a 7.5-hour call · ~5.5h door to doorCalls of 7.5 hours or more, with the day inside the ropeway’s hours, 9:00 up to 16:30 down. None of the 2027 calls with published times fits: the morning calls sail by 12:30 and Le Soléal’s 20 March call lands too late for the summit. Check your own ship’s hoursUnder the shrine’s roofs, then the shopsA wet day · ~2.5h door to doorA wet day on a call of 4.5 hours or more. The shrine’s corridors are roofed but open at the sides, and Senjokaku is a roofed hall; the ropeway stops in high wind or thunderWhat to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
1 hr 30 min for bothThe shore walk and the deer
About 500 wild deer live on the island and about 200 of them in the town, mostly along the shore between the ferry terminal and the shrine.
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1 hr 45 min for bothSenjokaku and the Five-storied Pagoda
On the hill above the shrine stand the vermilion Five-storied Pagoda and Senjokaku, the large wooden hall the shrine lists as Hokoku Shrine.
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1 hr 45 min for bothGrilled oysters at Yakigaki no Hayashi
Yakigaki no Hayashi has been on Omotesando since 1948 and calls itself the first grilled-oyster shop.
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