Photo: そらみみ / CC BY-SA 4.0Le Soléal anchors off Hagi and tenders passengers ashore.
0:55Akiyoshido: the 1 km route through the cave and back to the entrance
2:25Car back to Hagi’s castle town (about 50 min)
3:20The Kikuya residence and the lanes
4:40Hagi Castle ruins and Shizuki Park
5:30Back at the tender pierFollow this route8 stops, the clock and the map ↓
Also fits this call: The castle ruins and the old lanes, on foot (about 2.5h) · Castle, lanes and the Shoin Shrine side (about 4h)
Each one is a round trip from the gangway that fits the usable hours of this call.
Cut to the 4 May call. The half hour to get off and the hour before all-aboard are already kept free.
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Needs a 4.5-hour callabout 2.5h
Any call of 4.5 hours or more, from the tender pier; a ship that docks adds a taxi of about 15 minutes each way
No transport cost
Needs a 6-hour callabout 4h
Times assume a 07:00–18:00 call, as the prefecture listed for Heritage Adventurer, Island Sky and SH Minerva: ashore by 07:30 or 08:30, back at the pier by 16:30. Check your own ship’s hours
Two taxis, about ¥1,500 out and ¥2,000 back (our estimates)
Needs a 7.5-hour callabout 5.5h
A call of eight hours or more with the day’s first hours free: the cave opens at 09:00
A car to the cave and back, about ¥13,100 each way on the meter (our estimate); ask a sightseeing-taxi operator for a round-trip price
Tue, 4 May 2027, 08:00–21:00 (13 h in port), at anchor off Hagi, passengers go ashore. Off the ship from 08:30, back at the landing by 19:30 or before the last tender, whichever is earlier. Print it or save it before you lose the ship's Wi-Fi.
Rain on about 9 days in 30 — the rain-day plan if the day turns wet
A layer for the evening
The forecast for Tue 4 May appears here from Wed 28 Apr.
Normals 1991–2020: Japan Meteorological Agency, Hagi station · The official figures →
Arrivals run 08:00–13:00 and departures 17:45–21:00: check your own date in the table before choosing a day.
Add all 2 calls to your calendar
Usable hours follow the one rule: off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, all-aboard 30 minutes before departure, back at the landing an hour before that, earlier if the ship sets an earlier last tender. Overnight calls count the longest stretch ashore between 08:00 and 21:00 (the night is not touring time). Dates and times from the cruise line’s published itinerary; the port has not listed these calls yet; the daily programme has the final word.
08:00–21:00 · about 11 usable hours · gangway by 19:30
About 11 usable hours, back at the landing by 19:30: the port's full timed day fits, and so does a guided day that returns in time.
No guided day on this site fits these calls and is open on them; the timed plans below are the day.
13:00–17:45 · about 2.5 usable hours · gangway by 16:15
About 2.5 usable hours, back at the landing by 16:15: stay within a short taxi ride of the berth, one place done properly, and skip anything that needs a coach.
No guided day on this site fits these calls and is open on them; the timed plans below are the day.
Le Soléal anchors off Hagi and tenders passengers ashore. Tender call: the hours here are our docked-ship rule (off 30 minutes after arrival, back 90 minutes before departure); the boat rides and the queue for them come off that, and the ship sets the last tender, so ask on board. Where the boats land is not published. Berths can be reassigned on busy days; the daily programme has the final word.
Tue, 4 May 2027: 08:00–21:00 (13 h in port); Sun, 3 Oct 2027: 13:00–17:45 (4.8 h in port). Off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, all-aboard 30 minutes before departure, back at the landing an hour before that, earlier if the ship sets an earlier last tender: plan for about 11 usable hours on the call of Tue, 4 May 2027, back at the landing by 19:30.
3 of the port's timed days fit the call of Tue, 4 May 2027: The castle ruins and the old lanes, on foot (about 2.5h), Castle, lanes and the Shoin Shrine side (about 4h), Akiyoshido cave, then the castle town (about 5.5h).
On a usual May day Hagi reaches about 23 °C (73 °F), with a low of about 14 °C (57 °F); rain (1 mm or more) falls on about 9 days in 30. These are the Japan Meteorological Agency's 1991–2020 normals for Hagi. From 7 days before the call, this page shows the forecast for the day itself.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · Takumi Yamada
Dates and times from the cruise line’s published itinerary; the port has not listed these calls yet. Schedules change; your ship's daily programme has the final word.
