Photo: Akahito Yamabe / CC BY-SA 4.0Timed 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 to Shimizu Station (~5 min), or Dream Plaza’s free shuttle bus (runs from mid-morning)
On foot it is 30 min. Buy a simple IC card if you don’t have one
What you will see here - +0:20JR to Fujinomiya (~50 min, one change at Fuji)
Sit right side for mountain views
What you will see here - +1:20Fujinomiya Sengen Taisha — Fuji’s head shrine
The mountain itself is the shrine’s object of worship
What you will see here
Photo: Zairon / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +2:30Fujinomiya yakisoba lunch by the shrine
The B-grade champion dish of this town
What you will see here - +3:30Optional: Mt. Fuji World Heritage Centre (50 min)
The inverted-cone building with the summit-walk exhibit
- +4:40JR back to Shimizu
Trains every ~30 min — screenshot the timetable at arrival
- +6:00Walk from station to the pier
Plan this day only on a call of 10 hours or more, which keeps the full hour before all-aboard
Shimizu, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
