Photo: Tetsuhiro Terada / CC BY 2.0Door to door
3 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 5-hour call or longer
Room to spare
None
What it costs
about ¥5,500–5,800 out and back
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
- Best for
- Calls of 5 hours or more. Hayatama Taisha is flat; the Kamikura climb is optional and very steep
- 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 out and about ¥2,600–2,700 back, our estimates. Both shrines are free.
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)
No shuttle is published and no taxi stand is confirmed: ask the ship’s desk to call a taxi
Full guide: Kumano Hayatama Taisha and the Kamikura stepsPhoto: Tetsuhiro Terada / CC BY 2.0 - +0:20Kumano Hayatama Taisha: the vermilion halls and the sacred nagi tree
Gates 06:00–17:00; the treasure hall opens 09:00–16:00
Photo: Zairon / CC BY 4.0 - +1:05Walk to the foot of Kamikura Shrine, about 1 km, 20 min (shrine figure)
Or 5 min by car
- +1:25Kamikura Shrine: 538 steep steps to the shrine under the Gotobiki-iwa rock
Trainers, and no photographs while walking. A gentler path runs beside the steps, and praying from the torii at the foot is fine. Allow about 50 min up and down, our estimate
Photo: Saigen Jiro / CC0 - +2:20Taxi from Kamikura back to the berth, about 6 km, about 15 min (our estimate)
JR Shingu Station is 15 min on foot from Hayatama Taisha if no taxi passes
- +2:40Back 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
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
A wet day: Hayatama Taisha and tuna under a roofA wet day · ~3hA 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