with the shrine — the round trip from the gangway, with the 60-minute margin kept aside.
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The Edo-styled approach quarter by the shrine gate — akafuku mochi from the 1707 tea house, street food, and crowds that thin before ten. Pairs with Naiku, never a separate trip.
A reconstruction of the Edo-period approach to Ise, built in 1993 by the makers of Akafuku mochi using genuine relocated and copied buildings. Okage means thanks, from okage-mairi, the mass pilgrimages when ordinary people left without permission to walk to Ise.
Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
See · ~1.5hThe island where Kokichi Mikimoto invented the cultured pearl in 1893 — with white-robed ama divers demonstrating roughly every hour.
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See · 4–4.5h round tripJapan’s most sacred shrine, rebuilt from scratch every 20 years for thirteen centuries.
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See · ~2hJapan’s only dugong — Serena, resident since 1987 — plus the country’s largest species count.
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