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For an 8-hour call · WakayamaThe south shore: Kimiidera, Wakaura and the tuna show
Calls of 8 hours or more, any day. Times assume 08:30 off the ship and the 12:30 show; on weekends and holidays there is an 11:00 show too. Timed from the gangway and back.
- Best for
- Calls of 8 hours or more, any day. Times assume 08:30 off the ship and the 12:30 show; on weekends and holidays there is an 11:00 show too
- Room to spare
- Fits an 8-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
- Four taxi legs, about ¥11,700 for the car, our estimate. Kimiidera cable car ¥400 + ¥200 each way; Kishu Toshogu ¥300.
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
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 Kimiidera (6.7 km, about 9 min — our estimate)
About ¥2,850
What you will see here - +0:20Kimiidera: cable car or the stone steps to the main hall and the view over Wakaura Bay
Cable car 8:30–16:30; walking up is free on the temple’s fee table
Photo: Hiroaki Kaneko / CC BY-SA 3.0 - +1:30Taxi to Furobashi (2.4 km, about 4 min)
About ¥1,150. Ask the first driver to wait or to come back: a rank at the temple is not confirmed
- +1:40Furobashi bridge and Tamatsushima Shrine, then about 15 min on foot to Kishu Toshogu
Toshogu 9:00–16:30, ¥300; 108 stone steps, with a gentler stair to the left
Photo: 663highland / CC BY-SA 4.0 - +2:50Taxi to Kuroshio Market (7.4 km, about 9 min)
About ¥3,150
- +3:10Kuroshio Market: lunch, then the 12:30 tuna-cutting show
Market 10:00–17:00; food court 11:00–16:30; barbecue 11:00–17:00
Photo: Yanajin33 / CC BY-SA 3.0 - +4:40Taxi back to the quay (10.7 km, about 15 min)
About ¥4,550
- +5:10Back at the gangway
On an 08:00–16:00 call that is 13:40: fifty minutes before 14:30, the hour before a 15:30 all-aboard
Wakayama, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
The other routes in Wakayama
Wakayama Castle and the Momijidani gardenNeeds a 5-hour call · ~3hAny call: the keep closes on 29–31 December and on occasional days the castle announces on its site
The cat stationmaster of Kishi, ramen and the castleNeeds a 9-hour call · ~7hCalls of 9 hours or more. Yontama is on duty Friday to Tuesday; on Wednesdays and Thursdays the candidate Rokutama sits in. Times assume 09:30 off the shipUnder cover: the castle keep and Kuroshio MarketA wet day · ~4.5hA wet day on any call. The climb to the keep, about 9 minutes, is the only part in the open