Fukuyama Castle by busPhoto: 663highland / CC BY 2.5
Fukuyama Castle Museum is five minutes on foot from the north exit of JR Fukuyama Station. Its displays were renewed when the castle was restored.
- Getting there
- Tomotetsu bus from Tomo-ko, about 35 min, ¥620 each way; castle 5 min from the station’s north exit
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
Fukuyama’s castle stands beside the Shinkansen station. The castle museum, renewed with the castle’s restoration, is open 9:00–17:00, ¥500, closed Mondays. Buses leave Tomo-ko two or three times an hour. With an hour at the castle the round trip takes about three hours, most of an 11:30–18:00 call, so choose it instead of Sensui-jima, not as well.
- Closed Mondays. Check the day before you plan around it.
- 3 hr door to door needs a 5-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
Where the 3 hr 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 1 hr 40 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.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
3 hr 15 min for bothBenten-jima from the waterfront
The small rock island with a red pagoda that sits between Tomo and Sensui-jima.
See the detail
3 hr 20 min for bothHomeishu
Tomo’s own liqueur: glutinous rice, shochu and 16 herbs, sweet with no sugar added.
See the detail
3 hr 30 min for bothJoyato lantern and the gangi steps
The stone harbour lantern at the tip of the great gangi, given by the people of Nishimachi in 1859: 12.1 m with its base, the largest harbour lantern in Japan by the tourism association’s account.
See the detail