TokkarishoPhoto: Morigen at Japanese Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0
Tokkarisho comes from the Ainu tokar-isho, 'seal rock'. The cliffs, about 100 m high, are covered in bamboo grass and fall to a small cove.
- Getting there
- Taxi from Shukutsu 7.6 km, about ¥3,100 (our estimate); 1.3 km, about 2 min by taxi from Cape Chikyu
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
Cliffs of about 100 m covered in bamboo grass around a small cove; the name comes from the Ainu “tokar-isho”, seal rock. Free and open-air. It shares a bus stop with Cape Chikyu, so do the two in one taxi.
- Short enough to be certain of: 1 hr 50 min door to door.
- 1 hr 50 min door to door needs a 4-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
Tokkarisho and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Routes that already include it
Finished days timed from official timetables and our estimates, with this stop in them.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
3 hr 20 min for bothHakucho Bridge and the roadside station
The Hakucho Bridge, 1,380 m long and finished in 1998, is the largest suspension bridge in eastern Japan, and Shukutsu Pier sits at its west end.
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3 hr 20 min for bothMuroran Aquarium
Hokkaido’s oldest aquarium, opened in 1953: about 120 species, seal, sea-lion and penguin shows, and a small funfair.
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3 hr 20 min for bothOld Muroran Station building
A wooden station building from 1912, the oldest surviving in Hokkaido and a registered Tangible Cultural Property.
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