Photo: Saigen Jiro / CC0Door to door
4 hr 30 min
From the gangway and back
Best for
A wet day
Room to spare
None
What it costs
about ¥11,350 out and back
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
- Best for
- A wet day on any call. The climb to the keep, about 9 minutes, is the only part in the open
- Room to spare
- Fits a 6.5-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
- Taxi about ¥2,150 to the castle, ¥4,650 on to the market and ¥4,550 back, our estimates. Keep ¥410; Wakayama Historical Museum ¥100.
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 to Wakayama Castle (about 7 min, our estimate)What you will see here
- +0:20The keep, then the Wakayama Historical Museum at the foot of the hill
Keep 9:00–17:30, ¥410; museum 9:00–17:30, ¥100
Photo: Saigen Jiro / CC0 - +2:00Taxi to Kuroshio Market (11.2 km, about 15 min)
About ¥4,650
- +2:20Lunch inside the market and the 12:30 or 15:00 tuna-cutting show
Market 10:00–17:00; food court 11:00–16:30
Photo: Yanajin33 / CC BY-SA 3.0 - +3:50Taxi back to the quay (about 15 min)
About ¥4,550
- +4:20Back 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
Wakayama, along this route
Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.
Other routes
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 south shore: Kimiidera, Wakaura and the tuna showNeeds an 8-hour call · ~6hCalls 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
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 ship