Ozu CastlePhoto: Saigen Jiro / CC0
- Getting there
- Limited express to Iyo-Ozu, about 50 min, then taxi about 10 min or 30 min on foot; by road from the wharf 42 km, about 45 min
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
A wooden keep above the Hiji River, rebuilt in 2004 in its original form. 09:00–17:00, last entry 16:30, adult ¥550; ¥880 with Garyu Sanso. Trains back to Uwajima leave Iyo-Ozu at ten past the hour.
- 5 hr 30 min door to door needs a 7.5-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
- No single published ride covers this one. Budget for a taxi both ways, or fold it into a guided day.
Ozu Castle and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 5 hr 30 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 2 hr 50 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.
See · ~2.5hUwajima Castle
One of the 12 castle keeps in Japan that survive from the Edo period: three storeys of white plaster, rebuilt by the second Date lord in the 1660s on a hill first fortified by Todo Takatora.
See the detail
See · ~1.5hTensha-en
The pond garden the 7th lord, Date Munetada, built for his retirement.
See the detail