Photo: As6673 / Public domainDoor to door
4 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 6-hour call or longer
Room to spare
None
What it costs
about ¥1,000 each way
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
- Best for
- A ship alongside from 08:00 or earlier that stays past 14:00: off at 08:30, back by 12:30. Kadoya serves lunch 11:00–14:00
- Room to spare
- Fits a 6-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
- Two taxis, about ¥1,000 each way (our estimates). Tensha-en ¥500, keep ¥200 in cash; lunch prices are not published on the tourism list.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
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.
- +0:00Taxi to Tensha-en (2.2 km, about 10 min, about ¥1,000, our estimate)
The garden opens at 08:30
Full guide: Tensha-en garden - +0:10
- +0:50Walk 8 min to Noboritachi-mon and climb the stone steps to the keep
The keep opens at 09:00; adult ¥200, cash only
Photo: Reggaeman / CC BY-SA 3.0 - +2:00Go down the north side to the Kori gatehouse and walk to Kisaiya Hiroba (about 15 min)
- +2:30Kisaiya Hiroba: the pearl hall, jakoten hot from the fryer, the market
09:00–18:00
- +3:00Uwajima tai-meshi at Kadoya Bentencho, 4 min on foot, or at the food court
Kadoya: lunch 11:00–14:00
What you will see here - +3:45Taxi back to the wharf (2.0 km, about 10 min, about ¥1,000, our estimate)
Ask the market’s information desk to call one
- +4:00Back 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.
What the day looks like
Uwajima, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
Other routes
The other routes in Uwajima
The castle and Tensha-enNeeds a 4.5-hour call · ~2.5hA ship alongside on any call of 4.5 hours or more, between 08:30 and 16:30. From the tender pier walk instead: about 15 minutes to the castle
Uchiko by limited expressNeeds a 9-hour call · ~7hA call of about 07:00–17:00 or longer: off at 07:30, back about 14:25, an hour before a 15:30 gangway time. Not a morning or an afternoon half-dayA wet day: Kisaiya Hiroba, pearls and tai-meshiA wet day · ~2.5hRain on any call that covers lunch. The castle’s steps and the garden are in the open; the market, the pearl hall and the restaurants are not