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For a 4-hour call · TomonouraThe lantern, the Ota Residence and Taichoro
Any call. On a Tuesday the Ota Residence is closed: walk up to Io-ji instead. Times run from the moment you step off the tender. Timed from the gangway and back.
- Best for
- Any call. On a Tuesday the Ota Residence is closed: walk up to Io-ji instead. Times run from the moment you step off the tender
- Room to spare
- Fits a 4-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.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
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.
- +0:00Land in Tomo harbour and walk to the Joyato lantern (6 min from the prefectural pier, our estimate)
The landing is the prefectural pier or the stone steps beside the lantern; it is not published for Star Seeker
Photo: Yanajin / CC BY-SA 3.0 - +0:10Joyato lantern and the gangi steps
Free, always open
What you will see here
Photo: 663highland / CC BY 2.5 - +0:30Ota Residence, 1 min from the lantern
10:00–17:00, last entry 16:30, ¥500; closed Tuesdays
What you will see here
Photo: 663highland / CC BY 2.5 - +1:10Walk 5 min along the waterfront to Fukuzen-ji Taichoro
Weekdays 9:00–17:00, weekends and holidays 8:00–17:00, ¥300; irregular closing days per the city’s tourism association, open daily per the prefecture’s: phone 084-982-2705
What you will see here
Photo: 663highland / CC BY 2.5 - +1:45Benten-jima from the waterfront, then back to the landing (4 min from Taichoro to the prefectural pier)What you will see here
Photo: 663highland / CC BY 2.5 - +2:00Back at the landing
Check the last tender time in the daily programme
Tomonoura, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
The other routes in Tomonoura
The old town, a sea-bream lunch and the view from Io-jiNeeds a 5.5-hour call · ~3.5hA call of 5.5 hours or more. Not a Tuesday, when the Ota Residence and the lunch stop are both closed. Times run from the landingThe old town and Sensui-jima by ferryNeeds a 6.5-hour call · ~4.5hA 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 · ~2.5hA wet day. Everything is indoors except five-minute walks between stops