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Kunozan Toshogu and Nihondaira

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Round trip
4 hr
From the ship and back
Fits
a 4–6 hour stop ashore
Margin already counted
Getting there
Hired car only; 54–63 km, about 75 min each way in traffic
Kikugawa → Shizuoka ¥770 IC · Kakegawa → Shizuoka Kodama ¥1,730 IC (local 46 min, ¥860) · taxi to Kikugawa about ¥10,600 on the meter, our estimate
Booking
Just turn up
Nothing to reserve
Why we send people here

Tokugawa Ieyasu’s first shrine, built in 1617 and a National Treasure since 2010, reached by the Nihondaira Ropeway (¥1,250 return, first car 9:10). Shrine ¥700, open daily. Stone steps only inside the precinct. The only Shizuoka-city sight that fits a 9-hour call, and only by car.

Before you count on it
  • 4 hr door to door means a 2–3 hour stop ashore cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
  • It is a view, so it is weather. Check the morning sky before you commit the hours.
The story

Why Kunozan Toshogu and Nihondaira is famous

Tokugawa Ieyasu died at Sunpu in 1616 and, on his son's orders, was buried on Kunozan, the hill above the strawberry coast. The main hall and offering hall were built in 1617 and were raised to National Treasure status in 2010. The shrine museum holds a National Treasure sword. The precinct is stone steps only; most visitors arrive by the Nihondaira Ropeway, five minutes from the plateau above.

Where it is

Kunozan Toshogu and Nihondaira and your ship

Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.

The arithmetic

Where the 4 hr goes

Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.

Out1 hr 15 minHired car only; 54–63 km, about 75 min each way in traffic
There1 hr 30 minWhat you came for
Back1 hr 15 minTo the gangway

75 minutes each way is the measured figure for hired car only; 54–63 km, about 75 min each way in traffic, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 1 hr 30 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.

Pairs well with

What to put beside it

Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.

Build your own day →
See · ~1.5–2h

Omaezaki Lighthouse and the cape

A white brick tower designed under Richard Henry Brunton and first lit in 1874, one of Japan’s 16 climbable lighthouses.

See the detail →See · ~2h

Makinohara tea plateau and Grinpia

The largest tea plateau in Japan, planted by former Tokugawa retainers after the Restoration.

See the detail →See · ~3h

Kakegawa Castle

The first full-scale wooden keep rebuilt in Japan, in 1994, beside a late-Edo palace that is one of four castle palaces left in the country.

See the detail →
The one rule: be back on board 60 minutes before all-aboard. Build the whole day on the Omaezaki plan page.
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