Milk bottles and the underground lake

Wet days — two options by budget of hours. Timed from the gangway and back.

Any hours door to door4 stopsA wet day

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Photo: くろふね / CC BY 4.0

Door to door

Any hours

From the gangway and back

Best for

A wet day

Wet days — two options by budget of hours

Room to spare

Flexible

Built in pieces — take as many as your stop allows.

What it costs

~¥9,000 pp

If you go caving (four sharing a taxi); ~¥2,000 staying in town.

Booking

Nothing

Every stop here takes walk-ups

Timed from the gangway with the port's official timetables · updated 6 November 2026 · 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.

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.

+0:00
Gyosai Market — slow bin-don morning
Closed Wednesdays · the stalls are covered and warm
What you will see here
+1:30
Option A (long calls): hired car to Ryusendo Cave
~50–60 min each way by taxi, very roughly ¥15,000+ each way (our estimate) · entry ¥1,100 · closes after heavy rain, so check first
What you will see here
Photo: --[[利用者:あおもりくま|あおもりくま]]（会話） 2020年11月21日 (土) 01:15 (UTC) / Public domain
+1:30
Option B: Jodogahama Visitor Center + rest house
Free exhibits on the rias coast; the spires look striking in weather too
What you will see here
Photo: Raita Futo from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0
+4:30
Back to the wharf
Whichever option, the terminal roof is literally built for worse days than this