HomeishuPhoto: 663highland / CC BY 2.5
Homeishu is made from glutinous rice, shochu and 16 herbs, and gets its sweetness without added sugar.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
Tomo’s own liqueur: glutinous rice, shochu and 16 herbs, sweet with no sugar added. It was the town’s speciality in the Edo period, and four companies in Tomonoura still make it, each to its own recipe. Shop hours are not confirmed.
- Short enough to be certain of: 20 min door to door, so even a tender day works.
- Reachable on foot from the berth, so no timetable can strand you.
Four places, four different answers
| Place | What you get |
|---|---|
| The famous oneOkamoto Kametaro Honten岡本亀太郎本店 | One of the four homeishu makers the tourism association lists, at Tomo-cho Tomo 534, near the Ota Residence. Opening hours are not confirmed. |
| Local pickIrie Toyosaburo Honten入江豊三郎本店 | Homeishu maker at Tomo-cho Tomo 534. Opening hours are not confirmed. |
| Local pickTomo Shuzo鞆酒造 | Homeishu maker at Tomo-cho Tomo 1013. Opening hours are not confirmed. |
| Local pickYata Homeishu-ho八田保命酒舗 | Homeishu maker at Tomo-cho Tomo 531. Opening hours are not confirmed. |
Each name opens in Google Maps. Opening days change; check before you build a day around one.
Homeishu and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 20 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 20 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 old town and Sensui-jima by ferryNeeds a 6.5-hour call · ~4.5h door to doorA call of 6.5 hours or more, such as 11:30–18:00, in fair weather. Times run from the landing
Under a roof: the Ota Residence, Taichoro and the museumA wet day · ~2.5h door to doorA wet day. Everything is indoors except five-minute walks between stopsWhat to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
35 min for bothBenten-jima from the waterfront
The small rock island with a red pagoda that sits between Tomo and Sensui-jima.
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50 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.
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50 min for bothThe gangi and the old harbour
Tomo was a tide-waiting harbour: ships sat here until the current through the Inland Sea turned.
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