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Honetsuki-dori

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Round trip
2 hr
From the ship and back
Fits
a 4-hour call or longer
Margin already counted
Getting there
Town restaurants
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Booking
Just turn up
Nothing to reserve

Checked against official sources · updated · Takumi Yamada

Why we send people here

A whole chicken leg roasted hard with garlic and black pepper, eaten with your hands and mopped with cabbage. Order oyadori — the older bird, chewy and intense — rather than the tender hinadori, and drink something cold with it.

Why it earns the hours
  • Short enough to be certain of: 2 hr door to door, so even a tender day works.
Before you count on it
  • 2 hr door to door needs a 4-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
  • No single published ride covers this one. Budget for a taxi both ways, or fold it into a guided day.
The story

Why Honetsuki-dori is famous

Honetsuki-dori is a whole chicken leg, bone in, roasted hard with garlic and pepper, first sold in Marugame in the early 1950s. It comes in two grades: oyadori, an older bird that fights back, and hinadori, young and tender. Locals order rice to mop the fat and consider the choice a personality test.

Where to have it

Three places, three different answers

The one the queue agrees on, the one people who live here use instead, and the one nearest your ship. Opening days change; check before you build a day around one.

The famous oneHonetsuki-dori Ikkaku Takamatsu

The house that spread the dish from Marugame. Order oyadori if you want the fight, hinadori if you do not.

Open in Google MapsWhere locals goHonetsuki-dori Ranmaru

Another Takamatsu honetsuki-dori shop. We have not confirmed its hours; it is a dinner dish, so check for lunch service before you go.

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Pairs well with

What to put beside it

Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.

Build your own day
Wasanbon sugar, Takamatsu3 hr for both

Wasanbon sugar

A fine-grained sugar made from local sugarcane by a hand-kneading process that takes days, pressed into small moulded sweets shaped as flowers and leaves.

See the detailTakamatsu Castle, Takamatsu3 hr 15 min for both

Takamatsu Castle

One of only three Japanese castles moated with seawater, taken directly from the sea.

See the detailA bowl of kama-age sanuki udon, Takamatsu3 hr 30 min for both

Udon at a self-service mill

Kagawa eats more udon per head than anywhere in Japan.

See the detail
The one rule: be back on board 60 minutes before all-aboard. Build the whole day on the Takamatsu plan page.
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