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For a 5.5-hour call · MiyajimaThe shrine, Daisho-in and oysters
Calls 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 closed. Timed from the gangway and back.
- Best for
- Calls 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 closed
- Room to spare
- 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
- None, everything is on foot. Shrine ¥300, Senjokaku ¥100, lunch extra.
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 - +0:10The great torii from the shore
The tide decides whether you walk out or watch it stand in water
Full guide: Itsukushima Shrine
Photo: decade_null / CC BY 2.0 - +0:25
- +1:05Walk 7 min from the shrine exit to Daisho-in (our estimate)
Gates open 8:00–17:00
What you will see here
Photo: Freedom II Andres / CC BY 2.0 - +1:55Walk back past the shrine to Senjokaku and the pagoda
8:30–16:30, ¥100
Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +2:30Grilled oysters at Yakigaki no Hayashi on Omotesando
10:30–17:00, last order 16:30; closed Wednesdays
What you will see here - +3:20Walk 7 min back to the ferry terminal
- +3:30Back 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 6:30Ropeway to Mount Misen, then the shrineNeeds a 7.5-hour call · ~5.5hCalls 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 · ~2.5hA 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