The designer trains of the Kishigawa Line
The designer trains of the Kishigawa LinePhoto: MaedaAkihiko / CC BY-SA 4.0
The Kishigawa Line runs 14.3 km from platform 9 of JR Wakayama Station to Kishi in about 30 minutes, with two trains an hour through the day.
- Getting there
- From platform 9 of JR Wakayama Station; taxi from the berth about 9 min, our estimate
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
The railway runs themed trains on the 14.3 km to Kishi: the Tama train, the Tama Densha Museum train in the photograph, the Ichigo (strawberry) train, the Umeboshi train and a Chuggington train. Which one runs when is on the railway’s day-by-day timetable. The fare is the same on all: ¥480 to Kishi, or ¥1,200 for the day.
- 4 hr 30 min door to door needs a 6.5-hour call: a 2–3 hour stop cannot hold it. Pick something closer instead.
Where the 4 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 3 hr 10 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 · ~2.5hWakayama Castle
The white keep stands on a hill in the middle of the city, about nine minutes’ climb from the gate.
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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.
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See · ~4.5hKishi Station and the cat stationmaster
Yontama is the stationmaster of Kishi.
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