Uwajima Cruise Port

Only for a look around the berth. Our shortest timed plan, "The castle and Tensha-en", runs ~2.5h door to door, so it needs a 4.5-hour call (off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, back at the gangway an hour before all-aboard). On a 2–3 hour call stay within a short walk or taxi of the ship. The timed plans are at port-of-japan.com/uwajima/plans/.

The half-day is "Garden, castle, pearls and tai-meshi" (~4h door to door), which needs a 6-hour call or longer (off the ship 30 minutes after arrival, back at the gangway an hour before all-aboard) — every transit leg counted from the berth, with an escape route if you run late. The timed steps are on the plans page at port-of-japan.com/uwajima/plans/.

Le Soléal, National Geographic Resolution, Heritage Adventurer, SH Minerva, Island Sky, Hanseatic Inspiration, Mitsui Ocean Fuji, Silver Cloud are on Uwajima's published call list or the lines’ own itineraries, most calls first. Ships with a guide on this site link to it from the schedule, and this page carries plans sized to the hours each ship typically spends here. The full official call list — every ship with counts and seasons — is in the schedule section at port-of-japan.com/uwajima/#schedule.

① No shuttle is published for Sakashitazu No. 2 Wharf, and whether cabs wait there on a call day is not confirmed: ask the ship or the tourist information desk on the quay to call one ② Castle north entrance 2.3 km, Tensha-en 2.2 km, Kisaiya Hiroba 2.0 km, JR Uwajima Station 2.6 km: each about 10 min ③ For the return, ask the desk at Tensha-en or Kisaiya Hiroba to call a cab, or use the rank at JR Uwajima Station Fare: ~¥1,100 (castle) · Tensha-en and Kisaiya Hiroba ~¥1,000, station ~¥1,200 — our estimates on distance alone, on the Ehime tariff from 19 Dec 2025: ¥600 for 1.0 km, then ¥100 per 315 m. On foot the castle is 28–32 minutes from the wharf and the station about 36; the Japan Tourism Agency’s port sheet gives 35 minutes to the station. The taxi rank at the station is not confirmed by an official page. For today's exact departure times, open Google Maps transit directions from the pier — local timetables change by day, and the app knows today's.

① Tenders land at the Shin-Naiko No. 2 floating pier, beside the island-boat pier ② Kisaiya Hiroba, the roadside market, is about 150 m away ③ Castle north entrance 1.0 km, about 15 min; Tensha-en 1.2 km, about 20 min; JR Uwajima Station 1.2 km, 15 min Fare: Free. Runs Our estimates on OSM routing. Uwajima City names this pier as the landing for ships at anchor. National Geographic Resolution anchored on every call from 2023 to 2026.

① Taxi from the wharf to JR Uwajima Station, 2.6 km, about 10 min and ¥1,200 (our estimate); 15 min on foot from the tender pier ② Limited express Uwakai towards Matsuyama: Uwajima 08:47 or 09:46, Iyo-Ozu about 50 min, Uchiko about 1 h ③ Uchiko-za is 7 min on foot from Uchiko Station and the Kamihaga residence 20 min (Uchiko Town); Ozu Castle is about 10 min by taxi from Iyo-Ozu Fare: Not checked: buy at the station. Runs Hourly: from Uwajima at :46 from 09:46 to 19:46; back from Uchiko at :58 from 10:58 to 20:58, from Iyo-Ozu at :10. JR Shikoku’s station boards show departures only; the arrival back at Uwajima, about an hour after Uchiko, is our estimate. On a 07:00–17:00 call take the 12:58 from Uchiko; the 13:58 leaves almost no margin.

Uwajima sits on the Shikoku coast, which averages 3.3 typhoon approaches a year (JMA 1991–2020 normals) — the peak is August to September. Ships reroute rather than sail into a storm; the coast-by-coast picture and the booking-window advice are at port-of-japan.com/journal/typhoon-season-japan-cruise/.

16 cruise calls are on the official Ehime Prefecture Port and Coast Division (愛媛県 港湾海岸課) cruise call list for prefecture-run ports for 2026 (Calendar 2026), 15 by international ships and 1 by Japanese-operated ships. Every ship and its season is listed in the schedule section at port-of-japan.com/uwajima/#schedule.

Ships alongside use Sakashitazu No. 2 Wharf (坂下津第2号岸壁), a cargo quay with no terminal on the west side of the harbour, 2.3 km from the castle. Ships at anchor send tenders to the Shin-Naiko No. 2 floating pier, beside the island-boat pier and 150 m from the roadside market Kisaiya Hiroba. On Ehime Prefecture’s lists Le Soléal, Island Sky and SH Minerva have always gone alongside and National Geographic Resolution has always anchored. Your daily programme says which.

From the wharf it is 2.1–2.4 km to the castle, 28–32 minutes, and 2.7 km to JR Uwajima Station; a taxi takes about 10 minutes and costs about ¥1,100 by our estimate. From the tender pier the town is at your feet: Kisaiya Hiroba 2 minutes, the castle 14, the station 15. No shuttle is published for either.

Only on four days a year: 2 January, 3 May, 23 July and the fourth Sunday of October, with bouts from 12:00 to about 14:00 and tickets at ¥3,000 on the day. The ring’s own site has posted only 2 January for 2027 so far. On other days the ring is an empty arena that can be looked at free on weekdays, 09:00–16:00; it is shut at weekends.

A fertility shrine, known for phallic carvings in its precinct and for a museum of erotic art and objects. The museum is for adults only, 08:00–17:00, ¥800. It is about 15 minutes on foot from JR Uwajima Station. Skip it if that is not for you; nothing else in town is like it.

On a full-day call, yes. The limited express Uwakai leaves JR Uwajima at 08:47 and 09:46 and reaches Iyo-Ozu in about 50 minutes and Uchiko in about an hour; trains back leave Uchiko at 12:58 and 13:58. That fits a call of about 07:00–17:00 or longer. It does not fit the morning calls that sail by 13:00 or the afternoon calls that arrive at 12:00–13:00. Ships’ tours go by coach, about 55 minutes.

The Date Museum is closed from 29 March 2027 for about a year while a new building is finished. Tensha-en closes on Mondays from the second Monday of December to the end of February. Uchiko-za in Uchiko is under repair until about 2028. The castle keep and Kisaiya Hiroba are open every day except, for the market, 1 January.