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Milk bottles and the underground lake

Wet days — two honest options by budget of hours. Timed from the gangway and back, with the hour before all-aboard already set aside.

Any hours door to door4 stopsA wet day ashore
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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 honest options by budget of hours
What it costs
~¥4,000 pp if you go caving; ~¥2,000 staying in town
~¥4,000 pp if you go caving; ~¥2,000 staying in town.
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups
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.

  1. +0:00
    Gyosai Market — slow bin-don morning

    Closed Wednesdays · the stalls are covered and warm

    What you will see here →
  2. +1:30
    Option A (long calls): hired car to Ryusendo Cave

    ~60 min each way · ¥1,100 · the underground lake glows even harder in rain-weather moods

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    Photo: あおもりくま / Public domain
  3. +1:30
    Option B: Jodogahama Visitor Center + rest house

    Free exhibits on the rias coast; the spires look striking in weather too

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    Photo: Raita Futo from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0
  4. +4:30
    Back to the wharf

    Whichever option, the terminal roof is literally built for worse days than this

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

Miyako, along this route

Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.

A Miyako seafood bowl
A Miyako seafood bowlPhoto: くろふね / CC BY 4.0
The Rias Line along the Sanriku coast
The Rias Line along the Sanriku coastPhoto: くろふね / CC BY 3.0
Sanriku Railway Rias Line
Sanriku Railway Rias LinePhoto: Cheng-en Cheng / CC BY-SA 2.0
Blue Cave sappa boat
Blue Cave sappa boatPhoto: Yasu (talk) / CC BY-SA 3.0
Taro seawalls
Taro seawallsPhoto: Yoshio Kohara / CC BY 3.0
Sanoiwa rocks
Sanoiwa rocksPhoto: Yoshio Kohara / CC BY 3.0
Different hours, different day

The other routes in Miyako

Jodogahama, straight and true2–3 hours · ~2.5hShort calls — the icon and back, no gamblingParadise Shore and a bottle of the sea4–6 hours · ~5hThe classic Miyako dayThe beach and the seawall — the whole Sanriku truth8 hours or more · ~7hLong calls — and anyone who wants to understand this coast
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