Kaikyo Yume TowerPhoto: ハポニアラ / CC BY 4.0
- Getting there
- About 1.4 km, about 20 min on foot from Arcaport (our estimate); 9 min on foot from JR Shimonoseki Station, which is about 12 min by taxi from Choshu Dejima (city figure)
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
A 153 m tower by the station, with a 360-degree observation floor at 143 m over the Inland Sea, the strait, Ganryujima and Kyushu. 09:30–21:30, last entry 21:00; adult ¥750. It closes on the fourth Saturday of January. On a late sailing it is the sunset view.
- Reachable on foot from the berth, so no timetable can strand you.
- Closed on the fourth Saturday of January. Check the day before you plan around it.
- 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.
Kaikyo Yume Tower and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 2 hr 30 min goes
The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside. The minutes are our estimates from timetables and maps, not timed on the ground.
If your ship is late, cut the 1 hr 55 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Routes that already include it
Finished days timed from official timetables and our estimates, with this stop in them.
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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