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When it rains · UwajimaA 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
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.
- +0:00Taxi 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
- +0:15The market hall: fish, citrus and jakoten hot from the fryer
09:00–18:00
- +0:45The pearl hall: seven Uwajima pearl shops
- +1:15Uwajima 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 - +2:15Taxi back to the wharf
Ask the market’s information desk to call one
- +2:30Back 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
Garden, castle, pearls and tai-meshiNeeds a 6-hour call · ~4hA 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
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-day