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Wasanbon sugar

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Wasanbon sugar

~1h — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.

Photo: 夢の散歩 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Round trip
1 hr
From the ship and back
Fits
a 2–3 hour stop ashore
Margin already counted
Getting there
Town confectioners
See the rides below
Booking
Just turn up
Nothing to reserve
Why we send people here

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. It dissolves instantly, keeps for months and packs completely flat.

Why it earns the hours
  • Short enough to be certain of: 1 hr door to door, so even a tender day works.
Before you count on it
  • No single published ride covers this one. Budget for a taxi both ways, or fold it into a guided day.
The story

Why Wasanbon sugar is famous

Wasanbon is sugar made by hand in Kagawa and Tokushima from a thin local cane, kneaded and pressed repeatedly over days until the crystals are fine enough to dissolve on contact. It has been made this way since the late 18th century and is pressed into small moulded sweets that are eaten with tea.

If you have longer

What fits alongside it

Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare on a 6-hour stop ashore.

The day this belongs to

Routes that already include it

Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.

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