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A Shikoku Kisen ferry at Uno Port, the crossing to Naoshima

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Naoshima’s museums under a roof: Chichu and Benesse House

A wet day on any call of 7 hours or more, except a Monday. Book Chichu’s timed ticket online before the call; there are no door sales when it sells out. Timed from the gangway and back.

6 hr 30 min door to door8 stopsA wet day
Open the route in Google Maps, in 3 parts
Photo: 663highland / CC BY 2.5
Door to door
6 hr 30 min
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Room to spare
None
What it costs
¥370 each way
Booking
Book ahead
Best for
A wet day on any call of 7 hours or more, except a Monday. Book Chichu’s timed ticket online before the call; there are no door sales when it sells out
Room to spare
Fits an 8.5-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
Ferry ¥370 each way; town bus ¥100 a ride. Chichu ¥2,500 weekdays / ¥2,700 weekends online; Benesse House Museum ¥1,300 online.
Booking
At least one step needs booking before you sail: the steps below say which

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 → Chichu Art Museum, Naoshimatrain or bus
  2. 2Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima → Benesse House Museumon foot
  3. 3Benesse House Museum → 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
    Walk to the Shikoku Kisen ferry pier (about 4 min, our estimate)
  2. +0:20
    Ferry Uno → Miyanoura, about 20 min, ¥370

    Take a ferry that leaves you 90 minutes before your Chichu time slot

    A Shikoku Kisen ferry at Uno Port, the crossing to Naoshima
    Photo: 663highland / CC BY 2.5
  3. +0:45
    Town bus to Tsutsuji-so (¥100), then the free museum shuttle to Chichu

    The shuttle stops at Benesse House Museum and Lee Ufan Museum on the way

  4. +1:30
    Chichu Art Museum, inside the hill

    10:00–17:00, last admittance 16:00; closed Mondays. Date-and-time ticket bought online before the call: if slots sell out there are no door sales that day

    Directions from the ship (train or bus)Full guide: Chichu Art Museum
  5. +3:00
    Shuttle to Benesse House Museum

    08:00–21:00 every day

    What you will see hereDirections from the previous stop (on foot)
    Benesse House Museum and the yellow Pumpkin, Naoshima
    Photo: Jean-Marie Hullot / CC BY 2.0
  6. +4:30
    Shuttle and town bus back to Miyanoura

    Be early at the stop on a weekend afternoon

  7. +5:45
    Ferry Miyanoura → Uno, about 20 min
  8. +6:15
    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.
Other routes

The other routes in Uno

Uno on foot: pier art and a sea-view bathNeeds a 4.5-hour call · ~2.5hShort calls, or a slow morning before a Naoshima afternoon. Everything is within about 10 minutes of the gangway on footA Shikoku Kisen ferry at Uno Port, the crossing to NaoshimaNaoshima by ferry: the two pumpkins and Benesse HouseNeeds a 7.5-hour call · ~5.25hCalls of 7.5 hours or more, any day of the week: Benesse House Museum and the pumpkins open on Mondays too. Times use the 09:22 ferry out, the 10:00 town bus and the 13:55 passenger boat back, so step off by 09:00Okayama KorakuenOkayama Korakuen, the castle and Kurashiki by trainNeeds an 11-hour call · ~9hCalls of 11 hours or more, such as 08:00–20:00. Train times assume you step off at 08:30 on a weekday (JR West timetable revised 3 October 2026). Not a Monday if you want the Ohara Museum. The cruise lines sell the same day as “Koraku-en & Kurashiki”
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