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When it rains · ShinguA wet day: Hayatama Taisha and tuna under a roof
A wet day on a call of 5.5 hours or more, except a Tuesday, when the market is closed. The Kamikura steps and Daimon-zaka are wet stone: leave them. Timed from the gangway and back.
3 hr door to door6 stopsA wet day
Door to door
3 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Room to spare
None
What it costs
about ¥2,900–3,100 for the first fare
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
- Best for
- A wet day on a call of 5.5 hours or more, except a Tuesday, when the market is closed. The Kamikura steps and Daimon-zaka are wet stone: leave them
- Room to spare
- Fits a 5-hour stop with nothing to add (off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, back at the gangway an hour before all-aboard). A longer call gives you the extra time; on this one, do not add a stop.
- What it costs
- Taxi about ¥2,900–3,100 to Hayatama Taisha, about 17 km on to Katsuura, and about ¥4,100–4,400 back to the berth, our estimates.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
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.
- +0:00Taxi from the berth to Kumano Hayatama Taisha, about 7 km, about 15 min (our estimate)Full guide: Kumano Hayatama Taisha and the Kamikura steps
Photo: Tetsuhiro Terada / CC BY 2.0 - +0:20Kumano Hayatama Taisha and its treasure hall, the Kumano Shinpokan
Gates 06:00–17:00; treasure hall 09:00–16:00, fee not confirmed
Photo: Zairon / CC BY 4.0 - +1:05Taxi to Katsuura Gyoko Nigiwai Ichiba, about 17 km, about 35 min (our estimate)
- +1:40Nigiwai Ichiba: the market hall on the tuna harbour, lunch indoors
08:00–16:00, last order 15:30; closed Tuesdays
Photo: 玄史生 / CC BY-SA 3.0 - +2:50Taxi back to the berth, about 10 km, about 20 min (our estimate)
- +3:10Back at the gangway
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
Shingu, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
Other routes
The other routes in Shingu
Shingu’s own shrines: Hayatama Taisha and the Kamikura stepsNeeds a 5-hour call · ~3hCalls of 5 hours or more. Hayatama Taisha is flat; the Kamikura climb is optional and very steep
Nachi: Daimon-zaka, the shrine, the pagoda and the fallsNeeds a 6-hour call · ~4hCalls of 6 hours or more. This is the day Noble Caledonia, Ponant and Seabourn sell from the port. Stairs most of the way: the escape has a version with fewer
All three Kumano shrines in one dayNeeds a 10-hour call · ~8hCalls of 10 hours or more, such as 07:00–18:00, with a hired car or the ship’s own tour. The prefecture describes the three shrines as a one-day round from this port