Photo: Saigen Jiro / CC0Door to door
3 hr
From the gangway and back
Best for
A 5-hour call or longer
Room to spare
None
What it costs
about ¥4,300
Booking
None found
Check each place’s own page before you sail
- Best for
- Any call: the keep closes on 29–31 December and on occasional days the castle announces on its site
- Room to spare
- Fits a 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 both ways, about ¥4,300 for the car, our estimate. Keep ¥410; garden and covered bridge free.
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 quay to the castle’s Ichinohashi gate (4.9 km, about 7 min — our estimate)
A taxi rank on the quay is not confirmed: ask at the city’s information desk by the gangway, or take the ship’s shuttle if it runs one
- +0:20Walk up to the keep, about 9 min uphill (our estimate)
- +0:30Wakayama Castle keep
9:00–17:30, last entry 17:00; adult ¥410, child ¥200
What you will see herePhoto: Saigen Jiro / CC0 - +1:30Down to the Momijidani garden and the Ohashi-roka covered bridge
Both free, 9:00–17:00, entry to 16:45
Photo: 663highland / CC BY 2.5 - +2:15Taxi back to the quay (about 7 min, our estimate)
A rank at the castle is not confirmed. City buses run from Wakayamajo-mae to JR Wakayama Station in about 10 min, where taxis wait
- +2:45Back 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
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
Under 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