Hinoyama and the Hinoyama RingPhoto: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0
The Hinoyama ropeway no longer runs. The city is replacing it with a pulse gondola, with completion expected in FY2027 or later, and the summit's tulip garden is closed to spring 2028.
- Getting there
- Taxi up the free Hinoyama Parkway: about 5.8 km, ¥2,400 from Arcaport; 9.3 km, ¥3,700 from Choshu Dejima (our estimates). The ropeway has been retired
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
The ring-shaped deck on the summit opened on 23 April 2026, over the strait, the Kanmon Bridge and Kyushu. The ropeway is gone; the city is replacing it with a gondola due in FY2027 or later, and parts of the park are fenced off during the works; the ring deck itself is open. Ask the driver to wait or book the return: no taxi rank on the summit is confirmed.
- 2 hr 30 min door to door needs a 4.5-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
- It is a view, so it is weather. Check the morning sky before you commit the hours.
Hinoyama and the Hinoyama Ring and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
Eat · ~2hSushi stalls at Karato Market
On Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays the fishmongers of Karato Market sell sushi from their stalls, fugu nigiri among them: the Iki-iki Bakangai.
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See · ~2hAkama Jingu
The vermilion shrine of Emperor Antoku, who drowned aged eight at the battle of Dannoura in 1185; its Suitenmon gate was built to look like the Dragon Palace under the sea.
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