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The long call · Shimizu

The mountain day

Long calls with confident train users (or book the guided version). Timed from the gangway and back, with the hour before all-aboard already set aside.

~7.5h door to door7 stops8 hours or more ashore
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Photo: 663highland / CC BY-SA 4.0
Door to door
~7.5h
From the gangway and back
Best for
8 hours or more
Long calls with confident train users (or book the guided version)
What it costs
~¥3,000 pp in JR fares
Transport spend: ~¥3,000 pp in JR fares. The guided Fuji day: from US$194 pp.
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
    Walk 15 min to Shimizu Station

    Buy a simple IC card if you don’t have one

  2. +0:20
    JR to Fujinomiya (~50 min, one change at Fuji)

    Sit right side for mountain views

  3. +1:20
    Fujinomiya Sengen Taisha — Fuji’s head shrine

    The mountain itself is the shrine’s object of worship

    What you will see here →
  4. +2:30
    Fujinomiya yakisoba lunch by the shrine

    The B-grade champion dish of this town

    What you will see here →
  5. +3:30
    Optional: Mt. Fuji World Heritage Centre (50 min)

    The inverted-cone building with the summit-walk exhibit

  6. +4:40
    JR back to Shimizu

    Trains every ~30 min — screenshot the timetable at arrival

  7. +6:00
    Walk from station to the pier

    ~90 min of margin on a 9h call

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

Shimizu, along this route

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

Frozen tuna lined up for auction at a Japanese fish market
Frozen tuna lined up for auction at a Japanese fish marketPhoto: David Dibert / Pexels
The main shrine of Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha at Fujinomiya
The main shrine of Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha at FujinomiyaPhoto: 江戸村のとくぞう / CC BY-SA 4.0
Wasabi growing in flowing water
Wasabi growing in flowing waterPhoto: hfordsa from Tsukiji Fish Market in Tsukiji, Tokyo / CC BY-SA 2.0
A scale model kit under assembly with tools and paints
A scale model kit under assembly with tools and paintsPhoto: Matias Luge / Pexels
The east gate of Sunpu Castle in Shizuoka
The east gate of Sunpu Castle in ShizuokaPhoto: 江戸村のとくぞう / CC BY-SA 4.0
Kashi-no-Ichi
Kashi-no-IchiPhoto: Wikimedia contributor / CC BY-SA 4.0
Different hours, different day

The other routes in Shimizu

The rainy-day ShimizuA wet day · ~4hWet weather — and if Fuji is hidden, this is the planThe walkable port2–3 hours · ~2.5hAfternoon calls and cautious clocks — zero vehicles involvedFuji in the frame4–6 hours · ~5hClear mornings — the two great viewpoints in one arc
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