Photo: 663highland / CC BY 2.5Timed 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.
- +0:00Taxi or monorail toward Shuri Castle
Taxi ~15 min (~¥2,350 from Wakasa, ~¥2,250 from Shinko). By Yui Rail allow an hour (walk 20 min to Kencho-mae, ride about 15 min, walk 20 min uphill), which pushes every time below 30 min later; on a 7-hour call, take the taxi
What you will see hereFull guide: Shuri Castle - +0:30Shuri Castle: gates, walls and the reborn main hall
Rebuilt after the 2019 fire — interior opens 23 Nov 2026; the exterior is complete
What you will see hereFull guide: Shuri Castle - +2:00Descend to Tsuboya pottery street
Taxi ~10 min (~¥1,350), or Yui Rail from Shuri to Makishi and walk down. Three centuries of yachimun kilns in a quiet lane
What you will see hereFull guide: Tsuboya
Photo: Naha Mama Pavilionz / CC0 - +2:45Makishi Public Market lunch
Soba, champuru, and umi-budo if you are brave
What you will see hereFull guide: Makishi Public Market
Photo: pelican from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY-SA 2.0 - +3:45Kokusai-dori on the way back
Shisa lions, awamori, Blue Seal ice cream
What you will see hereFull guide: Kokusai-dori
Photo: NORTLAUKAU 26088 JP / CC0 - +4:30Taxi to the terminal
Naha, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
