Photo: Yasu / CC BY-SA 3.0Timed from the gangway with the port's official timetables · updated · Takumi Yamada
Numbers follow the route below. Pins are the places themselves; walking lines are not drawn because the best way between two stops can change with the tram, the tide or the weather.
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.
- +0:00Shuttle/taxi to Miyako Station
Note your return shuttle time first
What you will see here - +0:20Bus to Oku-Jodogahama (~25 min) — useful departures from the station 9:30, 10:40, 11:40, 12:40 and 13:40
Fares changed 1 Oct 2026; the ¥500 day pass from the station tourist office covers it · IC cards fine
What you will see here
Photo: Raita Futo from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0 - +1:00Jodogahama — beach, spires, sappa boat
Blue Cave first, beach after — the boats queue up by late morning
What you will see here
Photo: くろふね / CC BY 3.0 - +2:40Bus back to the station
Buses back leave Oku-Jodogahama at 12:10, 13:10 and 14:10, then nothing until 16:10 — after 14:10, take a taxi (~15 min)
What you will see here
Photo: くろふね / CC BY 4.0 - +3:15Bin-don lunch at the Gyosai Market
Pour the bottle over the rice yourself · market closed Wednesdays; Oikawa counter 10:00–15:30 — Seatopia Naado’s restaurant is the backup
What you will see here
Photo: くろふね / CC BY 4.0 - +4:20Shuttle back to the wharf
Or a 10-minute taxi
Miyako, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
