- Getting there
- Awa Odori Kaikan 1F, 9:00–20:00; taxi from Akaishi about 25 min, our estimate
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
The Kaikan’s ground-floor shop gathers the prefecture’s take-homes: sudachi, the small green citrus squeezed over everything here, as juice and sweets; Naruto Kintoki sweet-potato sweets; and goods dyed with Awa indigo. 9:00–20:00, so it fits before or after the show.
- Short enough to be certain of: 1 hr 40 min door to door.
- 1 hr 40 min door to door needs a 4-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
Where the 1 hr 40 min goes
The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside. The minutes are our estimates from timetables and maps, not timed on the ground.
If your ship is late, cut the 60 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Routes that already include it
Finished days timed from official timetables and our estimates, with this stop in them.
The Awa Odori show and the Bizan RopewayNeeds a 5-hour call · ~3h door to doorAny call: one building, open every day except the 2nd Wednesday of Feb, Jun, Sep and Dec. Time your exit so you reach the Kaikan before an 11:00, 14:00, 15:00 or 16:00 show
The Otsuka Museum, then the Awa Odori showA wet day · ~7h door to doorA wet day on any call of 9 hours or more except Mondays. Everything is indoors except the taxi stopsWhat to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
3 hr 40 min for bothBizan Ropeway to the summit
Six minutes up Mount Bizan in renewed gondolas, for the city, the Yoshino River and, on clear days, the Onaruto Bridge and Awaji Island.
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3 hr 40 min for bothTokushima ramen
Tokushima’s own ramen: a dark pork-bone and soy broth with sweet-simmered pork belly, often with a raw egg.
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