Photo: Naokijp / CC BY-SA 4.0Door to door
2 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 4-hour call or longer
Room to spare
None
What it costs
None
None, everything is on foot. Shrine ¥300, Senjokaku ¥100.
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
- Best for
- Any call, including the morning calls that sail at 11:30 or 12:00. The shrine opens at 6:30
- Room to spare
- Fits a 4-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
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
The pier is not published: note its name and the time of the last boat back before you walk off
Photo: Naokijp / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +0:10Walk the shore to the great torii (about 9 min from the ferry terminal, our estimate)
Under a 100 cm tide walk out to its foot; over 250 cm it stands in water. The complete guide has the tide for each call
Full guide: Itsukushima Shrine
Photo: decade_null / CC BY 2.0 - +0:30Itsukushima Shrine: the roofed corridors over the tidal flat
Opens 6:30; adult ¥300
What you will see here
Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 3.0 - +1:10Up the steps to Senjokaku and the Five-storied Pagoda
Hall 8:30–16:30, ¥100; the pagoda is seen from outside
What you will see here
Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +1:30Back through Omotesando: momiji manju at Fujiiya
Fujiiya 9:30–17:30; the oyster shop opens at 10:30
What you will see here - +2:00Back 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, 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 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