Koyasan: Kongobuji and the Danjo GaranPhoto: Christophe95 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Kongobuji’s fee page gives 8:30 to 17:00 for the head temple, the Kondo and the Konpon Daito, with entry until 16:30: ¥1,000 for Kongobuji and ¥500 for each of the other two, or ¥2,500 for a combined ticket to five sites.
- Getting there
- Hired car, or a ship’s tour if one is offered: 59 km, about 1 h 30 min each way; taxi about ¥23,850 each way, our estimate
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
The mountain monastery town of Shingon Buddhism. Kongobuji, the head temple, is open 8:30–17:00, entry to 16:30, ¥1,000; the Kondo and the vermilion Konpon Daito are ¥500 each. It needs a car and a call of nine hours or more. By train it is about 2 h 20 min each way from Wakayama Station, which no call listed for 2027 allows.
- This needs 7 hr, so it only fits a 9-hour call or longer. On a shorter one it will cost you the ship, not the view.
Koyasan: Kongobuji and the Danjo Garan and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 7 hr 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 4 hr in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
See · ~2.5hWakayama Castle
The white keep stands on a hill in the middle of the city, about nine minutes’ climb from the gate.
See the detail
See · ~3hTuna-cutting show at Kuroshio Market
A whole tuna is cut up in front of the crowd every day at 12:30 and 15:00, and at 11:00 as well on weekends and holidays.
See the detail
See · ~4.5hKishi Station and the cat stationmaster
Yontama is the stationmaster of Kishi.
See the detail