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When it rains · Uwajima

A wet day: Kisaiya Hiroba, pearls and tai-meshi

Rain 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. Timed from the gangway and back.

2 hr 30 min door to door6 stopsA wet day
Photo: Reggaeman / CC BY-SA 3.0
Door to door
2 hr 30 min
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
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
Rain 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
Room to spare
Fits a 4.5-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
Two taxis, about ¥1,000 each way (our estimates). 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.

  1. +0:00
    Taxi from the wharf to Kisaiya Hiroba (2.0 km, about 10 min, about ¥1,000, our estimate)

    From the tender pier it is 2 min on foot

  2. +0:15
    The market hall: fish, citrus and jakoten hot from the fryer

    09:00–18:00

  3. +0:45
    The pearl hall: seven Uwajima pearl shops
  4. +1:15
    Uwajima 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
  5. +2:15
    Taxi back to the wharf

    Ask the market’s information desk to call one

  6. +2:30
    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.
What the day looks like

Uwajima, along this route

Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.