Photo: Naokijp / CC BY-SA 4.0Door to door
2 hr 30 min
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Room to spare
None
What it costs
None
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
- Best for
- A 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
- Room to spare
- Fits a 4.5-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 with the Treasure Hall ¥500, Senjokaku ¥100.
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.
- +0:00Land by tender or Zodiac
Decks and steps are wet: take the ship’s umbrella
Photo: Naokijp / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +0:15Itsukushima Shrine: the corridors are roofed
From 6:30; buy the ¥500 ticket that includes the Treasure Hall
Full guide: Itsukushima Shrine
Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 3.0 - +0:55Treasure Hall, beside the shrine exit
8:00–17:00
- +1:20Senjokaku, the large roofed hall above the shrine
8:30–16:30, ¥100
Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +1:45Omotesando: Fujiiya’s tea room, or oysters at Yakigaki no Hayashi
Tea room 9:30–17:00; oysters 10:30–17:00, closed Wednesdays
- +2:30Back at the pier for the tender
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
Miyajima, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
Other routes
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 closedRopeway 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 hours