Hososhima Miyazaki
Hososhima (細島) is a cruise port in Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. Hyuga's port, with the Umagase sea cliffs nearby and Takachiho gorge — the mythological heart of Japan — about ninety minutes inland.
Hyuga's port, with the Umagase sea cliffs nearby and Takachiho gorge — the mythological heart of Japan — about ninety minutes inland.
What this page is. A researched reference entry — not a full guide. We have not walked Hososhima yet, and we have not verified its berth-to-town distances the way we do for our full guides, so you will find no walking times or timed plans here: we do not publish numbers we have not checked. What is here is accurate, sourced, and kept current.
Full guides near Hososhima
These Kyushu ports have complete Port of Japan guides — timed shore plans for 2–3h, 4–6h and 8h+ calls, measured berth information and walk-it verdicts:
NagasakiDejima, the hidden Christians, castella, champon, and the atomic bombing — the most layered port day in Japan, and the hardest to plan badly.
KagoshimaAn active volcano fifteen ferry minutes from the city, a garden that borrows it as scenery, shochu, shirokuma, and the Satsuma story.
BeppuMore hot water than anywhere in Japan. Cook your own lunch in a steam vent, be buried in hot sand, and pay ¥100 to bathe where the town bathes.
Hakata (Fukuoka)Top of Japan's cruise-call rankings: a hundred licensed street stalls, tonkotsu ramen and its vocabulary, a one-tonne festival float, and the bay the Mongols failed to take.
Sasebo208 islands by public boat, a burger with a definition, a hidden-Christian church, and a kilometre of covered arcade — none of it bookable, none of it needing to be.Planning a call at Hososhima?
The site-wide tools work for any Japanese port day: the Shuttle & Berth Index explains how berth assignments decide your day, DIY or Book? covers the decision logic, and if Hososhima is your first Japanese port, read the immigration guide first.
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Where is Hososhima port?
Hososhima (細島) is in Miyazaki Prefecture, in the Kyushu region of Japan. The nearest ports with full timed guides on this site are Nagasaki, Kagoshima, Beppu, Hakata (Fukuoka), Sasebo.
Does Hososhima have a cruise port?
Yes — Hososhima (細島), in Miyazaki Prefecture, appears on Japan cruise itineraries. Hyuga's port, with the Umagase sea cliffs nearby and Takachiho gorge — the mythological heart of Japan — about ninety minutes inland.
Is there a full Hososhima port guide on this site?
Not yet — this is a researched reference entry, clearly labelled as such: we have not walked Hososhima or verified its berth-to-town details in person. Our full guides in the same region cover Nagasaki, Kagoshima, Beppu, Hakata (Fukuoka), Sasebo, each with timed shore plans measured from the gangway. Reader requests decide which reference ports we promote to full guides next.
Reference entry · researched from official sources · By Takumi Yamada, Tokyo · All 85 ports →