Photo: Naokijp / CC BY-SA 4.0- Best for
- Calls 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 hours
- Room to spare
- Fits a 7.5-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.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
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.
- +0:00Land by tender or Zodiac
Note the pier and the last boat back
Photo: Naokijp / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +0:05Walk about 20 min, uphill, through Momijidani Park to Momijidani Station
Or the operator’s free shuttle bus from the park entrance stop, about every 20 min from 9:50
Full guide: Miyajima Ropeway
Photo: Steven Perez / CC BY-SA 2.0 - +0:30Ropeway up: about 10 min to Kayatani, change, about 4 min to Shishiiwa
Up 9:00–16:00; ¥2,000 return. Booking required on the busy days the operator lists
Photo: redlegsfan21 / CC BY-SA 2.0 - +1:00Shishiiwa lookout, then the mountain path to the summit
About 1 km; allow 30 min each way. Reikado hall is on the way
Photo: dconvertini / CC BY-SA 2.0 - +2:30Ropeway down from Shishiiwa
Last car down 16:30
- +3:05Walk about 15 min down to Itsukushima Shrine
¥300; closes 18:00 from March to mid-October
Full guide: Itsukushima Shrine
Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 3.0 - +4:00The great torii from the shore
The tide decides whether you walk out or watch it stand in water: check the table for your call
Photo: decade_null / CC BY 2.0 - +4:30Omotesando: oysters or momiji manju
Yakigaki no Hayashi to 17:00, closed Wednesdays
Photo: puffyjet / CC BY 2.0 - +5:20Walk 7 min back to the ferry terminal
- +5:30Back at the pier for the tender
Miyajima, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
The other routes in Miyajima
The shrine and the gateNeeds a 4-hour call · ~2hAny call, including the morning calls that sail at 11:30 or 12:00. The shrine opens at 6:30The shrine, Daisho-in and oystersNeeds a 5.5-hour call · ~3.5hCalls of 5.5 hours or more that land at about 8:00 or later (Daisho-in opens at 8:00, the oyster shop at 10:30), on any day but Wednesday, when Yakigaki no Hayashi is closedUnder the shrine’s roofs, then the shopsA wet day · ~2.5hA 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 thunder