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Bizan Ropeway to the summit, Tokushima

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For an 8-hour call · Tokushima

Tokushima city: Bizan, the Awa Odori show, ramen and the castle garden

Calls of 8 hours or more on any day but Monday, when the Castle Museum is closed. Times assume 08:30 off the ship. Timed from the gangway and back.

6 hr door to door9 stopsNeeds an 8-hour call
Open the route in Google Maps, in 3 parts
Photo: 新幹線 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Door to door
6 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
An 8-hour call or longer
Room to spare
None
What it costs
about ¥11,500
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
Best for
Calls of 8 hours or more on any day but Monday, when the Castle Museum is closed. Times assume 08:30 off the ship
Room to spare
Fits an 8-hour stop with nothing to add (off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, back at the gangway an hour before all-aboard). A longer call gives you the extra time; on this one, do not add a stop.
What it costs
Taxi out and back, about ¥11,500 for the car from Akaishi, our estimate. Ropeway ¥1,500, show ¥1,300, Castle Museum ¥300 (¥500 during special exhibitions).

Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada

Numbers follow the route below. Pins are the places themselves; walking lines are not drawn because the best way between two stops can change with the tram, the tide or the weather.

Open in Google Maps, in 3 parts

  1. 1Your ship → Awa Odori Kaikan and the Bizan Ropewaytrain or bus
  2. 2Awa Odori Kaikan and the Bizan Ropeway → Ramen Toudai Odo Honten → Tokushima Castle Museum and the Omote-goten gardenon foot
  3. 3Tokushima Castle Museum and the Omote-goten garden → Back to the shiptrain or bus

Google Maps on a phone takes three stops between start and end, and none on a train or bus route, so the day opens in parts. Each step below also has its own directions.

The route

How the day runs

Times are from the moment you step off, not from the scheduled arrival. Everything shifts if your ship is late; the order does not.

  1. +0:00
    Taxi to the Awa Odori Kaikan (about 25 min from Akaishi, our estimate)

    Or the ship’s shuttle into the city, if it runs

  2. +0:30
    Bizan Ropeway up at 9:00, the view, and down

    About 6 min each way, ¥1,500 return

    What you will see hereDirections from the ship (train or bus)
    Bizan Ropeway to the summit, Tokushima
    Photo: 新幹線 / CC BY-SA 4.0
  3. +1:20
    Awa Odori Museum, 3F

    ¥500, 9:00–17:00

  4. +2:30
    The 11:00 Awa Odori show, 40 min

    ¥1,300

    What you will see here
    Awa Odori dancers, Tokushima
    Photo: Ann Lee / CC BY-SA 2.0
  5. +3:10
    Walk 9 min to Ramen Toudai Odo Honten for Tokushima ramen

    Open every day from 11:00

    What you will see hereDirections from the previous stop (on foot)
  6. +4:10
    Walk to the Tokushima Castle Museum (1.6 km, about 25 min, our estimate)
  7. +4:35
    Castle Museum and the former Omote-goten garden

    9:30–17:00, last entry 16:30; closed Mondays

    What you will see hereDirections from the previous stop (on foot)
    Tokushima Castle Museum and the Omote-goten garden, Tokushima
    Photo: 663highland / CC BY 2.5
  8. +5:25
    Walk 9 min to JR Tokushima Station; taxi back (17.1 km, about 25 min to Akaishi, our estimate)

    About ¥5,850

  9. +6:00
    Back at the gangway
The margin is not optional. This route ends an hour before all-aboard on purpose. If you are running late, drop the last stop, not the hour.
What the day looks like

Tokushima, along this route

Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.

Tokushima ramen
Tokushima ramenPhoto: atsushi masegi / CC BY-SA 2.0
Other routes

The other routes in Tokushima

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