The journey, on the calendar.

Cost basis: One vehicle for two; home address is unknown, so confirm the fare. Airport-zone flat rates may not apply.

Duration: 1 h.

Costed at the full hour rather than the free-flow 45 minutes. YUL's road network is mid-reconstruction until 2035 and the arrivals-level drop-off has been closed in rolling phases, pushing all traffic up to departures.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-1, leg 1. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 1 h 30 min.

Bags are tagged straight through to Narita — this is a single nonstop sector, so they are not touched again until the belt at NRT. At the gate 2 h 05 min before departure, with nothing left to do.

There is no curbside check-in. Air Canada does not offer it anywhere in Canada; the only kerbside service is accessibility assistance arranged with the airport. Leaving at 08:30 rather than 09:15 puts you at the kerb 3 h 35 min before departure, which clears the 3 h 30 min Aéroports de Montréal recommends at peak — the earlier 09:15 start met the three-hour minimum and missed the recommendation.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-1, leg 2. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Both flight legs are covered by the roundtrip flight quote / eventual purchase; no additional fare here.

Duration: 13 h 20 min.

Not across the Pacific, whatever the brief says — AC5 tracks over Hudson Bay, the Arctic and Alaska, and comes down the far side. Air Canada is Star Alliance, so it works the South Wing at Terminal 1; the North Wing is SkyTeam.

Times from the existing itinerary; verify against your ticket. Roundtrip price is the user-supplied October 14 snapshot.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-1, leg 3. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 1 h 15 min.

The brief allows 50 minutes. Narita's own guidance is about an hour, measured from the doors rather than the wheels — and 20 July 2027 is the first working day after Marine Day, so the hall is absorbing a returning three-day weekend on top of the usual load.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-2, leg 1. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 20 min.

Stop 12 is the YCAT bay at Terminal 1. Terminal 2 is stop 15, Terminal 3 is stop 7.

Buy the two ¥4,000 tickets online before you fly. Queuing at the Limousine counter is what makes this leg unpredictable, and 20 July 2027 is the first working day after Marine Day — the counter is absorbing a returning three-day weekend along with everyone else.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-2, leg 2. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: 2 adults × ¥4,000; existing route estimate, reconfirm 2027 fare.

Duration: 1 h 40 min.

The 16:30 departure in the brief does not exist. Terminal 1 runs 16:25, 16:55 and 17:25 — the 16:25 is long gone off a 16:40 lobby, and the 16:55 leaves at the exact minute the walk to the pole ends, which is not a connection but a coin toss with two suitcases on it. This day takes the 17:25 with twenty-five minutes standing at the pole. Every afternoon service is timetabled at 1 h 40 min, not the 1 h 55 min the brief allows. Get off at bay Y4; Y1 is the boarding bay at the wrong end of the concourse.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-2, leg 3. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 5 min.

A hire car cannot wait in the bus bays. Agree an exact meeting point at the Sky Building general-vehicle bay when you book, rather than expecting to find a rank.

Start time estimated from the preceding itinerary leg; reconfirm on the day.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-2, leg 4. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: One YCAT → Hyatt taxi, existing meter estimate; confirm dispatch fee.

Duration: 13 min.

Around ¥1,600–2,200 on the meter. Book the car for 19:10 with a twenty-minute window either side rather than a single minute — the coach is the variable here, not the road.

The brief says ten minutes. Free-flow is five and a half, but this is the evening peak in central Yokohama — twelve to fifteen is the honest figure, twenty if the Kannai corridor is backed up.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-2, leg 5. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 3 min.

Wheels down 15:25, standing at the desk about 19:26.

Start time estimated from the preceding itinerary leg; reconfirm on the day.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-2, leg 6. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Allowance for one room / two adults, July 20–21; obtain a cancellable tax-inclusive quote.

Duration: 25 min.

Nothing after this has a deadline attached to it, which is the whole point of taking the later coach.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-2, leg 7. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 7 min.

This is the hour the street is for, and eight o'clock is better than seven: the lanterns are lit, Kanteibyō is floodlit, and five hundred kitchens are going at once. Doing it tonight is what turns tomorrow morning from a scramble into a morning.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-2, leg 8. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Grounds free; allow two ¥500 incense sets if the counter is open.

Duration: 25 min.

The forecourt and the floodlit gate are there whatever the hour, but Kanteibyō's incense desk keeps its own closing time and it is not published anywhere reliable — assume it may be shut by eight. If it is, tonight is the gate, the roof carvings and the light, and the five-censer ritual moves to Masōbyō tomorrow morning, which is already built to hold it.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-2, leg 9. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Dinner allowance for two, not a restaurant quote.

Duration: 1 h 15 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-2, leg 10. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 7 min.

Nothing to carry and nothing to catch. The bags are already upstairs.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-2, leg 11. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 15 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-3, leg 1. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 9 min.

Mazu is the Chinese goddess who calms the sea and brings sailors home — Watatsumi's opposite number, and the one who came to this harbour with the ships. The temple was consecrated in 2006 from the Grand Mazu Temple in Tainan. Dragons run the length of the gate, along the roof ridge and around the balustrade.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-3, leg 2. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: 2 × ¥500 incense; courtyard/tai chi free in existing plan.

Duration: 1 h 20 min.

21 July 2027 is a Wednesday, which is why this works. Reception opens 08:45 and the circle runs 09:00 to 10:00, so the twenty minutes before it are the incense and the dragons and the hour after is the tai chi. It finishes at ten on the dot, which is the minute the fortune hall five minutes away opens its doors — the two halves of this morning fit together with nothing left over. The circle pauses through August; July is in season. Worth telephoning ahead to confirm it is still running.

The courtyard is at street level and everything worth seeing — the gate, the roof, the censers — works from it. What could not be confirmed is the step situation at the main hall door itself: these are raised-platform Chinese temples and usually have a raised sill. Assume a step or two there, and do not plan on getting inside.

The repo lists opening at 09:00. Arrive/wait from 08:40; confirm incense access and the tai chi start. Do not assume the desk is open at 08:40.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-3, leg 3. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 5 min.

Kanteibyō is on the way and has the better dragon carvings in daylight — cloud-dragon stone, dragon pillars, Taiwanese roof tiles. You saw it lit up last night, so put your head in for two minutes or walk straight past.

Ask for the Shanghai Road or Tenchōmon branch rather than the main store: 本店 is on the 2F of the Kamome market building, and no lift is documented. All three keep the same hours.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-3, leg 4. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Allowance for two readings; tarot varies by reader. Existing data only prices palm reading from about ¥1,000 each.

Duration: 55 min.

Ten o'clock is opening time, so you are the first customers of the day and there is no queue in front of you — which is exactly what the Tuesday evening could not offer at any price.

Book it, and book it before you fly: reservations go through their own site at coubic.com/irieuranai, and a named reader has to be requested in advance. Weekday hours are 10:00 to 20:00 with last reception at 19:30 — confirmed on their own site, and the reason this reading is on Wednesday morning rather than Tuesday night. Two things to settle when you book: ask whether they can read in English, because nothing on their site says they can, and note that the brief's promised "face analysis" is not on the published menu — what Airi sells is tarot and palm reading.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-3, leg 5. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 8 min.

Twelve minutes at the bell desk before the car: a cold drink, the bags, the bathroom, and no clock.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-3, leg 6. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Allowance for one short Hyatt → pier taxi, with luggage; request dispatch-inclusive fare.

Duration: 7 min.

The brief puts the hotel 0.5 km from the pier. Hyatt's own page says 0.75 km.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-3, leg 7. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 5 min.

Taxi rank, ticket counter, immigration lobby and CIQ Plaza are all on 2F — there is no level change here at all, and the terminal is lifts and ramps throughout. Only the car park is on 1F.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-3, leg 8. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 25 min.

Do this now, not later. Once you have checked in you cannot come back ashore, and the rooftop is on the wrong side of that line — which is exactly the mistake the earlier version of this day made by putting you aboard at a quarter past eleven. Twenty-five minutes rather than thirty is the only thing the fortune reading cost this morning, and the roof is open around the clock if you would rather have it back.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-3, leg 9. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 30 min.

Your assigned Arrival Group governs when you may join this queue — it is picked in the app about thirty days out, and if you do not pick one it is picked for you 24 hours ahead. Pick the earliest window offered. Check-in closes at 14:00 and Princess states in writing that arriving after it closes means not boarding.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-3, leg 10. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Embarkation is stricter than a port day: check-in runs 12:00 to 14:00 and Princess states that if you arrive after it closes you will not be allowed to board. Yokohama also uses assigned Arrival Groups — you pick a staggered window in the Princess app about thirty days out, and arriving early only buys you the right to drop bags and wait. This day is timed to be at the terminal by twenty past eleven and through the desks in the first minutes of the noon window, which means the whale's back happens before check-in rather than instead of it. One thing worth knowing before you walk in: once you have checked in you cannot go back ashore, so do any last errand first.

Port windows, arrival clearance and all-aboard times must be reconfirmed in the Princess app / daily programme.

Source: data/transit.ts · portCall; arrival from first transit leg where available.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 20 min.

Ōsanbashi is a long finger pier and the ship is 290 metres, so the walk is real. Aboard about ten to one — seventy minutes before check-in closes, with lunch and the sail-away still ahead of you.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-3, leg 11. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Booking only; the two Izumi admissions are budgeted on July 27.

Duration: 20 min.

About US$39 for a two-hour session, US$49 for a day pass. Not covered by Princess Premier.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-3, leg 12. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Duration: —.

Streamers off the rails, Hotaru no Hikari on the quay, and the wooden deck slides away from you.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-3, leg 13. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Source: data/predeparture.ts · Korea entry preparation.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 10 min.

The one early start of the cruise, and it is what makes the rest of the day easy. Each of you collects your own numbered tender ticket in the first wave; one person cannot collect both.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 1. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Planning last tender: 15:00; verify the actual last boat aboard.

The deadline here is not "be on the ship" but "be on the last boat leaving the pier", and that queue is at its worst on the final runs. The last tender has to leave before all-aboard, not at it — the crossing alone is twelve minutes — so it is shown here at 15:00 and the real figure is the one printed in the Patter that morning. The day is built so that none of it matters: you are back at the Marine Terminal by one and on the 13:25 tender, with an hour and a half still in hand.

Port windows, arrival clearance and all-aboard times must be reconfirmed in the Princess app / daily programme.

Source: data/transit.ts · portCall; arrival from first transit leg where available.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Duration: 15 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 2. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: One terminal → Futami taxi; existing ¥6,800 daily budget allocation.

Duration: 10 min.

The shrine's own access page gives 7.5 km and about ten minutes at ¥2,500–3,000; the original planning document said fifteen. Either way it is comfortably inside the drive rule, and the sandō is deliberately thin gravel kept shallow for wheelchairs.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 3. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Shrine visit free; optional fortunes/offerings allowance for two.

Duration: 50 min.

Quarter to eight is the whole trick. The office opens at 07:00, so the fortunes, the goshuin and the hamasangu purification with salt grass are all available — and the promenade is still in shade and still bearable. By eleven it would be neither.

There is no shade and there are no benches on this path at any hour. Hats and water before you get out of the car, not after.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 4. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 10 min.

Vermillion hall, green roof, and no gap at all between it and the ocean. Watatsumi Ōkami lives here — the sea kami Japan reads as Ryūjin the dragon, and the shrine is named for his palace. Two bows, two claps, one bow, straight out over the bay.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 5. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Ryūgūsha visit free; optional snack/offerings allowance.

Duration: 10 min.

Ryūgūsha keeps its own posted hours of roughly 09:00–16:00 for anything handed over a counter, so at this hour it is the hall and the sea rather than a stamp. The main shrine office behind you has been open since seven if you want both.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 6. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: One Futami → terminal taxi: ¥2,800 fare + ¥400 return pickup allowance.

Duration: 10 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 7. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Coffee/snack allowance for two. Bay-cruise tickets counted on the boat event.

Duration: 20 min.

Use the terminal's accessible toilet before you board — there is no toilet at all on the boat. And ask the counter which vessel is on your sailing: if it is the little Mitsushima, take the next departure instead. It has a 66 cm door and internal stairs, and in summer the boats run every half hour, so waiting costs you nothing.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 8. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 10 min.

This is the farthest pier in the complex rather than a door off the lobby, and the barrier-free centre tells visitors to allow extra time for it. Ten minutes at your own pace, not three.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 9. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 25 min.

The operator's own instruction is 出航時刻の15分前までにお越しください — be here fifteen minutes before departure. An earlier draft of this day had the walk to Pier 1 ending at the exact minute the boat left, which is not a connection. Summer sailings go on the hour and the half hour from 09:00 to 16:00, so if you miss one the next is thirty minutes away and the day still works.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 10. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: 2 × ¥2,400 bay-cruise tickets; sightseeing boat, excluded from taxi/bus subtotal.

Duration: 35 min.

This is the whole voyage's theme, afloat and seated: not a shrine to the dragon king but his palace, with the story's two characters on the roof. The castle is on the outside, so you get all of it from your seat and from the pier — the 2F Otohime throne room and the 3F deck are stairs only and cost you nothing to skip. The boat calls at Dolphin Island on the way; stay aboard. The full loop is about fifty minutes, of which this is the long leg.

A covered ramp down to a floating pontoon — the gradient changes with the tide — then one step-over threshold at the door, with staff on hand. The front of the 1F cabin has two low steps; only the rear is genuinely step-free.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 11. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: 2 × ¥2,800 aquarium admission, paid at entry.

Duration: 15 min.

Not five minutes. Disembarking a full sightseeing boat down a floating pontoon takes as long as boarding it did, and there is a ticket window at the far end of it. The aquarium has been open since 09:30, so nothing here is waiting on you.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 12. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Lunch allowance for two; admission counted at entry above.

Duration: 2 h.

Sixteen wheelchairs and three electric carts are lent free at the door, no reservation and nobody thinks anything of it. There is deliberately no fixed route, so take the short version: first 人魚の海, the Sea of Mermaids, for Serena — the only dugong in Japan, in the tank the aquarium named for the legend she is supposed to have started, and as of April 2026 thirty-nine years in residence, which is the world record. Then marine mammals, then the seated indoor sea-lion show, then the Ancient Sea. Skip Jungle World and Japanese Rivers. Lunch inside around 11:45, before the crowd. And look for the ryūgū-no-tsukai if it is in: the oarfish, whose name means Messenger of the Dragon Palace.

Two things. Ramps run throughout but the aquarium's own page is honest that a few spots still need stairs and a few tanks cannot be approached — that is normal here, turn round and go another way. And the sea-lion show runs to fixed times that are posted at the entrance and change with the season: read the board on the way in and build the two hours around it, rather than hoping to walk into one.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 13. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: One aquarium → terminal taxi; completes ¥6,800 Toba daily estimate.

Duration: 10 min.

Do not walk this. The terminal is about 1.2 km away, 17–20 minutes on unshaded Route 42 roadside, which is exactly the kind of leg this day is built to avoid. The sightseeing boat also comes back here, but its return leg is timetabled rather than on demand — the taxi is the one that fits the tender.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 14. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 15 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 15. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 6 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 16. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Duration: 30 min including the queue.

Toba's anchorage is exposed and tendering gets suspended in wind or swell — the failure mode here is weather, and it gives no warning. This is why the day takes the 13:25 boat and not one of the last three: aboard about two o'clock, half an hour inside our own deadline, an hour and a half before the last boat and two hours before she sails. If it is blowing, go straight back after the aquarium and read in the lounge on board.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 17. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 8 min.

About 1.5 km on foot across the entire day, flat, and everything outdoors done before nine in the morning.

Start time estimated from the preceding itinerary leg; reconfirm on the day.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-4, leg 18. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 30 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-5, leg 1. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

The latest deadline of the week, and the most slack: the whole shore day runs 09:30 to 14:00 against a call that does not end until 17:00, so there is an hour and a half of margin behind you and no point in the day where you are hurrying. One thing to watch for in the Patter — because the first port after this is Korea, Japanese exit immigration happens before Seogwipo, and Princess's own wording allows it to be run at the previous port's terminal rather than on board. If Kōchi is named as the exit-inspection point, that inspection time becomes your real deadline, not 16:30, and you cannot go ashore again once you have cleared it.

Port windows, arrival clearance and all-aboard times must be reconfirmed in the Princess app / daily programme.

Source: data/transit.ts · portCall; arrival from first transit leg where available.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 15 min.

An unshaded working apron. It is the only open-air walking of the day that is not optional.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-5, leg 2. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Whole four-hour Kōchi charter, counted once here. Includes museum → beach, return to port and waiting; reconfirm extras.

Duration: 12–15 min.

There is no bus and no railway anywhere near this terminal, so the car has to be contracted to wait and return. The city centre is about 25 minutes away and is out of range under the new rule — everything worth having is on this headland.

Book the car for 09:45, not 09:35. She is not alongside until nine, the gangway takes another half hour, and the walk across the apron is a further fifteen minutes — a car ordered for 09:35 is a car waiting on the meter while you are still on the ship.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-5, leg 3. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Museum admission allowance for two; exact exhibition fare unconfirmed.

Duration: 1 h 20 min.

The museum stands on Urado Shiroyama, Chōsokabe Motochika's castle hill — and Motochika is the man credited with founding the dragon-king shrine on the cape below, as the guardian of his castle's unlucky quarter. Ryōma's own name is written 坂本龍馬: dragon horse.

Do not try for the roof. The museum's own floor plan marks the way up as a spiral stair from both 2F and the mezzanine, with no lift drawn to it. You lose nothing — the 2F gallery is the sea view.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-5, leg 4. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the ¥22,000 Kōchi charter, charged on the first ride.

Duration: 3 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-5, leg 5. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 25 min there, on the sand, and back.

This is the beach, and it is worth the time: crouch down and the shingle is not grey but green, red, white, black and grey — five colours, ground off Mount Ishizuchi and sorted by the surf. Japan keeps this crescent for looking at the moon.

Do not swim here — the undertow is lethal and it is signposted, which is why the swim is on Jeju instead. This is the first thing you do after the museum, and deliberately so: there is no shade at all once you are on the sand, and by half past twelve it is over thirty degrees. Lunch is the reward afterwards, indoors.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-5, leg 6. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 20 min there, at the statue, and back.

This is where you see the dragon king's shrine from, and it is the whole reason the climb is not on the plan. From up here you get the entire crescent — strung between Ryūzu-misaki, Dragon Head Cape, where you are standing, and Ryūō-misaki, Dragon King Cape, at the far end with its red torii and the vermilion Ryūō-gū on the rock. Dragon's head looking at dragon king, the beach between them. Getting to the shrine itself means the full length of the beach in unshaded sand and then a steep salt-worn stairway with no confirmed handrail, which is not what this trip is for — you have the torii, the hall and both capes from here.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-5, leg 7. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Lunch allowance for two; free museum per existing itinerary.

Duration: 1 h 15 min.

The long cool sit-down at the end of the shore day rather than in the middle of it. Everything outdoors is behind you by now.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-5, leg 8. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the ¥22,000 Kōchi charter, charged on the first ride.

Duration: 12 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-5, leg 9. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 15 min.

Aboard by about two — an hour and a half inside our own deadline of 15:30, two and a half hours inside the ship's, and three hours before she sails. Costed at fifteen minutes rather than ten because the walk out had no queue and this one has a screening line at the end of it.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-5, leg 10. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Duration: under 1 min.

Westbound through the strait, Shimonoseki and Honshū are to starboard and Moji and Kyūshū to port. Worth knowing which side of the ship you booked.

No clock time is recorded. Calendar entry is an all-day placeholder, not an all-day activity.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-6, leg 1. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Duration: 5–8 min each way.

The brief promises the whole thing "viewed entirely from the private Balcony Stateroom", and so, until this pass, did the chapter above. It is not true. A fixed balcony sees one bank: booked port side you get Moji and Kyūshū and miss Shimonoseki, Akama Jingū and the Dan-no-ura shore the whole day is built on. Both banks, and the bridge tower passing overhead, mean going up to an open deck for the twenty minutes it matters. Take a hat — there is no shade up there.

No clock time is recorded. Calendar entry is an all-day placeholder, not an all-day activity.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-6, leg 2. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Duration: about 10 min.

Pilotage is compulsory in this channel at 10,000 gross tons and over. She is 115,875. Costed at nothing because it is the pilot's journey, not yours — it is here so you know what the small boat coming alongside is.

No clock time is recorded. Calendar entry is an all-day placeholder, not an all-day activity.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-6, leg 3. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Duration: about 5 min.

About 650 metres shore to shore. The bridge keeps 61 metres of clearance against roughly 54 of air draft. The current runs to ten knots and turns about every six hours. These five minutes sit inside the two-hour block above rather than after it — this is the moment to be on deck for, not a separate leg.

No clock time is recorded. Calendar entry is an all-day placeholder, not an all-day activity.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-6, leg 5. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Duration: about 10 min.

Again the pilot's journey rather than yours. This is the real end of the scenic window — after it she works up for the overnight run to Jeju.

No clock time is recorded. Calendar entry is an all-day placeholder, not an all-day activity.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-6, leg 6. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Duration: 2 h scheduled block, about 1 h 15 min of it in the channel.

The 09:00–11:00 window comes from cruise-retailer listings for this sailing, not from Princess. The hour is locked to the tide and differs on every sailing — other Diamond Princess dates show an 11:00–13:00 block. Take the Patter as the authority and set no alarm by this page.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-6, leg 4. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

An immigration day, so plan it as one continuous trip ashore: where entry formalities are run, Princess suspends the usual right to come back for lunch and go out again. This is also the only day in a foreign country, which means exit formalities and a security screen on the way back in, and taxis that rank outside the port gate rather than at the terminal door. The return is costed at fifty-five minutes rather than forty-five for exactly that reason, and it still puts you aboard at two — half an hour inside our own deadline and an hour and a half inside the ship's. Two stops only, and that is the whole trick of this day: a third one is what used to land it five minutes past our own deadline. Note that the shore-hours figure for this call comes from cruise-retailer databases rather than from Princess directly; reconfirm it in the app.

Port windows, arrival clearance and all-aboard times must be reconfirmed in the Princess app / daily programme.

Source: data/transit.ts · portCall; arrival from first transit leg where available.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 1 h.

Korea is a separate entry: fingerprints and a facial scan, at a staffed counter. Gangjeong's automated gates will not help — Canada is not on the eligible list. Taxis rank outside the gate beside the Jeju Global Taxi desk, and Kakao T takes international cards. Going at a quarter to eight rather than at nine is what buys the whole day its margin: it is the only slack this port has, and it sits at the front.

This is the fact that reshapes the whole day, and no brief mentions it: the walk from the ship to immigration is about 1,200 metres, the walkway runs intermittently to manage crowding at the exits, and you do it twice. That is roughly 2.4 km of corridor before a single metre of sightseeing. Do not decline any shuttle, paid or free. Sit down at the gate before you do anything else — and if immigration has run long or it is raining, tell the driver 서귀포매일올레시장 instead: a 620-metre covered arcade eighteen minutes away, step-free, with three accessible toilets and somewhere to sit down, which you can leave whenever you like.

Jeju uses KST (UTC+09:00), the same offset as Asia/Tokyo used for this calendar.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-7, leg 1. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: One Gangjeong gate → Cheonjeyeon taxi; existing estimate.

Duration: 18 min.

Roughly ₩15,000–20,000. No need to hold this car — Jungmun is a resort with hotels on every corner and cars circulating all day, so you hail the next one when you are ready.

Jeju uses KST (UTC+09:00), the same offset as Asia/Tokyo used for this calendar.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-7, leg 2. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: 2 × ₩2,500 falls admission; existing estimate.

Duration: 40 min.

The bridge is the whole prize and it is at the top, so this is a there-and-back rather than the full circuit. Nine in the morning is the coolest hour you will get ashore, and the beach has no lifeguards until ten anyway — so this slot was otherwise going to be spent waiting.

Ask at the west booth before you buy whether Seonimgyo itself is step-free, and take a straight answer for an answer: the surveyed accessibility record for this gorge could not be confirmed, and most of what is published online actually describes Cheonjiyeon, a different waterfall 12.7 km away whose name differs by one syllable. If they hesitate, the falls are visible from the rim and the full circuit — about 1.5 km and roughly 300 steps — is not the plan in any case. The first fall only runs after heavy rain; the second flows year round.

Jeju uses KST (UTC+09:00), the same offset as Asia/Tokyo used for this calendar.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-7, leg 3. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: One falls → Jungmun beach car-park taxi.

Duration: 6 min.

About ₩5,000. Hail it at the falls car park or on the app — you are inside a resort, not out in the country.

Jeju uses KST (UTC+09:00), the same offset as Asia/Tokyo used for this calendar.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-7, leg 4. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 12 min down.

Free to enter. Changing rooms and toilets on site; showers are ₩2,000 and cold only, so bring a towel and something dry to put on. No lockers are confirmed anywhere — leave anything you would mind losing on the ship. Parasols ₩20,000 if you want shade.

Jeju uses KST (UTC+09:00), the same offset as Asia/Tokyo used for this calendar.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-7, leg 5. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Beach free; two ₩2,000 showers, with optional ₩20,000 parasol.

Duration: 1 h 20 min.

Three things that matter here. The beach only operates 10:00–19:00 and there are no lifeguards outside that, which is why nothing on this day tries to get you here earlier. It is split in half during the season — a swimming zone and a surfing zone — and you stay in the swimming half. And Jungmun is one of about ten Korean beaches with real-time rip-current monitoring: the rips are strong, entry is banned outright in the marked zone near the entrance, and the standing advice is to stay where you can touch the bottom. Jeju also raised its jellyfish alert in 2026 and someone was stung here that summer — check the boards and ask the lifeguards on the day.

Jeju uses KST (UTC+09:00), the same offset as Asia/Tokyo used for this calendar.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-7, leg 6. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 15 min up.

Longer coming up than going down, and it has its own row because it is the single hardest fifteen minutes of the day — 50 vertical metres, wet, in thirty degrees. Take it slowly; nothing is waiting on you.

Jeju uses KST (UTC+09:00), the same offset as Asia/Tokyo used for this calendar.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-7, leg 7. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Lunch allowance for two, not a cafe quote.

Duration: 50 min.

Everything demanding is now behind you. This is where the day's spare half hour lives if you want to spend it.

Jeju uses KST (UTC+09:00), the same offset as Asia/Tokyo used for this calendar.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-7, leg 8. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: One Jungmun → Gangjeong port-gate taxi. Immigration corridor still on foot.

Duration: 15 min.

About ₩15,000–20,000 again, so roughly ₩40,000 for the whole day's driving.

Do not gamble the return on the free shuttle. Order the car before you leave the cafe, not at the kerb.

Jeju uses KST (UTC+09:00), the same offset as Asia/Tokyo used for this calendar.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-7, leg 9. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 55 min.

Costed at fifty-five minutes, not the forty-five an earlier version allowed — this is the same corridor as the morning plus exit formalities and a security screen, and it is the last thing standing between you and the ship. Aboard about two: half an hour inside our own deadline, an hour and a half inside the ship's, and two hours before she sails.

Jeju uses KST (UTC+09:00), the same offset as Asia/Tokyo used for this calendar.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-7, leg 10. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 12–18 min.

A Diamond Princess call empties well over two thousand people onto one pier road between 07:45 and 09:00. Have the shore excursions desk book a car for 08:10, and sit in the terminal's air conditioning rather than stand in the queue outside.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-8, leg 1. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Your Japanese landing permission was spent when the ship left for Korea, so the whole ship is re-admitted to Japan here, face to face, with a fresh seal, fingerprints and photo. Carry your actual passport — a photocopy will not do, and Japanese law requires you to have the real one on you ashore. Like Seogwipo, this is an immigration day, so treat it as one trip ashore rather than two.

Port windows, arrival clearance and all-aboard times must be reconfirmed in the Princess app / daily programme.

Source: data/transit.ts · portCall; arrival from first transit leg where available.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 30 min.

The whole ship is cleared individually, so nobody is out on the street at 07:00 whatever the gangway sign says. Worth knowing and never advertised: the municipal car-park building beside the terminal lends wheelchairs and pushchairs free, and has a wheelchair-rated lift and an accessible toilet. If either of you would rather be pushed today than walk, collect one before you get in a taxi.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-8, leg 2. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Allocated estimate: first taxi plus 45-minute wait at Sōfuku-ji; part of ¥6,800 daily car budget.

Duration: 10–15 min.

Allow the upper end: this route crosses the tram tracks twice and threads the Shianbashi one-way system. Kajiya-machi is a residential temple street with no rank, so have him wait on the meter.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-8, leg 3. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Forecourt plan; allow 2 × ¥300 if entering the paid temple. Stairs are optional.

Duration: 45 min.

Forty-five minutes, and the car waits through all of it. Those two upper halls are National Treasures: the Daiippō-mon was cut and fitted in China in the 1690s, shipped over in pieces by junk and raised here in 1696, and its underside is a honeycomb of brackets in vermilion and gold. The Daiyūhōden dates from 1646. Mazu keeps her own hall off to one side — the same sea goddess you met in Yokohama on embarkation morning.

There is no way past the gate except the stairs — commonly given as forty to fifty of them — and no handrail is confirmed. Worn stone, and 31 °C by mid-morning, which is exactly why this is the 08:25 stop rather than the noon one. Decide at the bottom, not halfway up: the Ryūgū-mon itself is fully visible from the forecourt, and if you stop there the forty-five minutes is a comfortable look at the gate rather than a climb against a clock.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-8, leg 4. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Allocated Sōfuku-ji → Glover Sky Road taxi fare; waiting charged above.

Duration: 8–11 min.

The earlier version of this day sent the car away at 08:50, which is twenty minutes before a forty-five-minute visit beginning at 08:25 can possibly end. Tell the driver 09:15.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-8, leg 5. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 5 min.

2階出口を進むとグラバー園第2ゲート入口は目の前です — step out of the upper exit and Gate 2 is directly in front of you. This is the thing that makes a hillside garden step-free, and no brief mentions it. ¥1,300 each; the discounted rate needs a Japanese disability certificate and will not take a foreign one.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-8, leg 6. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: 2 × ¥1,300 Glover Garden admission at Gate 2; public Sky Road lift free.

Duration: 15 min.

DECISION POINT, and make it here rather than earlier: if legs or heat are bad today, stop. Turn round, ride the lifts back down, and take a taxi from Ishibashi straight to Chinatown — the row below is the one to skip, and skipping it costs you nothing but the Kunchi pair. That is a complete visit for fifteen minutes of flat walking, and it includes the best view in Nagasaki.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-8, leg 7. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 1 h 15 min.

It finishes indoors, air-conditioned and step-free, in the 長崎伝統芸能館 — which holds the 白龍 and the 青龍, the actual Kunchi dragon-dance dragons, included in your ticket. In July they live here rather than at Suwa Shrine, which is the reason not to drive across the city looking for them. Kept as a counted leg rather than an option because the whole day has an hour of margin behind it and because the dragons are the reason to be here — but the decision point above is real, and turning back is a complete day too.

Downhill is not easy. Glover Garden's own words: 歩道の殆どが石畳で勾配も随所にあるため — mostly cobbles, on a gradient throughout, with assistance needed even descending. One of you steers the chair, one walks alongside.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-8, leg 8. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 8 min.

Nobody tells you this and it is the day's real trap: Gate 1 is not a taxi rank. The city confirms set-down at Gate 2 only, the garden has no car park, and you come out at the top of a pedestrian slope. Book a car to meet you at Ōura Tenshudō-shita for 11:15, or have a shop call one. And decline Ōura Church on the way past — the city is blunt that there is no way in other than a long staircase.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-8, leg 9. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Allocated Ōura Tenshudō-shita → Chinatown taxi fare.

Duration: 8 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-8, leg 10. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 15 min.

Given its own row because the old plan promised ten minutes here inside a seven-minute gap. Fifteen is enough to stand under it, photograph it and cross the road.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-8, leg 11. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Lunch allowance for two at Keikaen; confirm menu.

Duration: 1 h 15 min.

The shorter version of the whole day, if the morning went badly: skip Chinatown entirely and have champon at Shikairō, 200 flat metres from the gangway, where it was invented. Two lifts to the dining rooms. You will still have had the Dragon Palace Gate and the Kunchi dragons and climbed nothing.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-8, leg 12. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Allocated Chinatown → Matsugae taxi fare; daily estimate totals ¥6,800.

Duration: 8 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-8, leg 13. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 12–18 min.

Aboard by about half past one — an hour clear of our own deadline, two hours clear of the ship's, and two and a half hours before she sails.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-8, leg 14. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Duration: —.

No clock time is recorded. Calendar entry is an all-day placeholder, not an all-day activity.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-9, leg 1. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Duration: 5–8 min.

It is not covered by the Princess Premier package, whatever the brief says: about US$39 for a two-hour session or US$49 for a day pass. Premier covers drinks, wi-fi, gratuities, photos, specialty dining and fitness classes — not the spa.

No clock time is recorded. Calendar entry is an all-day placeholder, not an all-day activity.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-9, leg 2. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Existing estimate: 2 × US$39 for a two-hour session. Day passes: 2 × US$49. Reconfirm onboard.

Duration: 2 h.

The session you paid for is two hours; this row exists so the day is honest about it. The two indoor halves are nude and gender-segregated and the sides swap daily, so check which is which on the door. Only the outdoor tub is mixed, and that one needs swimwear — you cannot share the main baths, so agree a time to meet outside.

No clock time is recorded. Calendar entry is an all-day placeholder, not an all-day activity.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-9, leg 3. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Duration: 5–8 min.

No clock time is recorded. Calendar entry is an all-day placeholder, not an all-day activity.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-9, leg 4. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Included in the cruise fare; do not add the fare again.

Duration: —.

Start time estimated from the preceding itinerary leg; reconfirm on the day.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 1. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 40 min.

This is the biggest uncosted variable of the morning and the earlier version of this day left it out entirely. Ask at passenger services the night before for the earliest tag colour: a late colour can put you an hour behind everything below, and the only thing downstream that cannot absorb an hour is a studio booking.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 2. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 15–25 min.

290 metres of ship over thirteen passenger decks, and on a turnaround morning the lifts are the bottleneck.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 3. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 25–45 min door to car.

The brief brackets 08:00 off the ship and 08:30 into the taxi. Thirty minutes is the best case, not the plan.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 4. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: One fixed private transfer for two + luggage. Existing range; require an all-in toll/waiting quote. Meter alternative ¥20,000–25,000 plus tolls.

Duration: 1 h 15 min — anywhere from 55 min to 1 h 35 min.

About ¥20,000–25,000 on the meter plus toll, or ¥23,000–35,000 as a fixed private transfer. Book it for 09:30 with a wide window — the tag colour decides when you actually reach the kerb.

The brief allows an hour. Verified free-flow alone is 47–49 minutes, and this is a Wednesday morning.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 5. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 3 min.

A bag drop rather than a check-in — the room is not yours until 15:00, but the bell desk takes the cases now, and again after check-out tomorrow.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 6. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 7 min.

The brief says 0.2 km and books a five-minute taxi. It is 508 metres on foot and 1.17 km by road, because the one-way system sends the car the long way round. Walking is faster, cheaper, and the reason an 11:00 booking works at all.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 7. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 2 min.

No lift is documented anywhere. Ask when you book.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 8. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 3 min.

Four flights from the street in total, in full costume for the second half of it — and four flights back down at the end, which is the harder direction in a hikizuri.

Start time estimated from the preceding itinerary leg; reconfirm on the day.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 9. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Planning allowance for the couple, not a studio quote; confirm costumes, photos, tax and outdoor shoot.

Duration: 3 h.

The load-bearing block of the whole afternoon, and it had no row until this pass — the day was costed as five minutes of stairs. Book it for 11:00: the chain above reaches the studio at about 11:00 exactly, and the earlier 10:30 booking could only be met by a morning that went perfectly. Settle one thing when you book — whether your plan includes the outdoor location shoot around the temple and the riverside. Stone paving in geta is a different proposition from a studio floor, and it happens inside these three hours rather than after them.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 10. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 3 min.

The brief sends you back to the hotel first — 508 metres in the wrong direction, to a room you cannot check into until 15:00 — and then on to a restaurant that was 226 metres from where you were standing. Go direct.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 11. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Late lunch allowance for two.

Duration: 50 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 12. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 10 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 13. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Allowance for one room / two adults, July 28–29; view rooms may cost more.

Duration: 45 min.

Sensō-ji is floodlit from below and the Skytree changes colour on its own schedule past the river — this window is the only place either of them is on the itinerary after dark, so the evening does not need a leg to reach them.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 14. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Whisky tasting allowance for two at Sakaemon; walking is free. Aged pours may exceed this.

Duration: 9 min.

This is the answer to the whisky question, and it is a nine-minute walk. No distillery is within reach of anywhere this ship goes — Yamazaki, Hakushu and Chichibu are all two hours or more from every port, and Chichibu does not admit the public at all. What Sakaemon gives you instead is an actual flight, in daylight, with Yamazaki 18, Hibiki 21 and Hakushu 18 on the list. It also opens at 11:00 tomorrow, if the morning suits better than tonight.

Set expectations on price: Japanese whisky has been in short supply for a decade and Suntory raised prices again across 187 products in 2026. A 30 ml pour of something aged runs into thousands of yen and may simply be unavailable. The genuinely interesting drinking now is craft — Chichibu, Akkeshi, Kanosuke, Sakurao — and it is better value.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 15. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Source: data/predeparture.ts · ArriveCAN.

Cost basis: Evening allowance for two, including 2 × ¥1,000 Bar Flamingo covers; drinks extra within allowance.

Duration: 7 min.

Flamingo is the pick because it takes cards and it is open on a Wednesday. The famous one, Bar Nemo, founded 1960 with something like fourteen thousand bottles, is cash only and every one of its twenty seats is a smoking seat — which settles it.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-10, leg 16. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 15 min.

Check-out is 12:00 noon. The brief's 13:00 check-out is an hour past the deadline; at 13:00 you can only collect bags, not settle the room. Doing it at a quarter to nine, before the temple, means the rest of the day has no hotel business left in it.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 1. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 10 min.

The brief has the hotel "steps from Sensō-ji". It is close to the main hall, but a full 752 metres from the southern gate where the visit starts.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 2. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 15 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 3. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 4 min unimpeded, 10–15 min in a late-July crowd.

Twenty minutes, because nobody walks Nakamise in four — there is ningyō-yaki to eat hot and standing up, and this is the last of Japan you will see. There are side alleys behind the stalls if the crush is too much. Step-free the whole way, including under Hōzōmon.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 4. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 2 min.

A deliberate detour off the centre line, not something you pass through.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 5. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 15 min.

The water supply here has been suspended before. The basin may be dry or restricted — the two dragons are the point either way.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 6. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 5 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 7. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 2 min by the steps, 5 min by the lift.

The temple publishes no step count. The hall opens at 06:00, so nothing here is waiting on you.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 8. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Sensō-ji admission free; optional fortunes and offerings allowance.

Duration: 30 min.

Sensō-ji has never softened its odds — about thirty per cent of its slips come out kyō. If the news is bad, fold it and tie it to the rack, and leave the luck in Japan rather than carrying it onto the plane.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 9. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 5 min by the lift, 2 min by the steps.

Descending worn stone under a crowded canopy is the harder direction. Worth its own decision.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 10. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 6 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 11. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Lunch allowance for two; souvenirs additional.

Duration: 1 h 20 min.

This hour is the whole point of the rebuild. It is not dead time — it is the buffer that means a slow lift at Sensō-ji, a long queue on Nakamise or a late start costs you nothing at all. Spend it if the morning ran smoothly; hand it back to the clock if it did not.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 12. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 15 min.

Boarding is on the driveway, not in the lobby, and the seat must have been reserved in advance. Be on the driveway with the bags fifteen minutes early, not five — the coaches are not low-floor, folding wheelchairs go in the luggage bay, and motorised ones may be refused.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 13. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: 2 adults × ¥3,100; existing itinerary fare, reconfirm 2027 timetable and price.

Duration: 1 h 50 min.

¥3,100 each. The hotel's own page still quotes the old ¥2,900.

Take this one, not the 13:45. There is no 13:15 departure at all — six runs a day only, 06:45, 07:45, 11:45, 12:45, 13:45 and 15:45, reaching Terminal 1 at 09:00, 10:00, 14:00, 14:35, 16:00 and 18:00. The 13:45 arrives 16:00 and leaves twenty minutes against a bag-drop cut-off and six against the gate; the 12:45 arrives 14:35 and leaves three hours. The published table gives this run 1 h 50 min where the others get 2 h 15 min, so treat 14:35 as the optimistic end. If the morning slips or it is pouring, a fixed-fare airport taxi is the answer rather than a later coach: ¥32,000–35,000 all in from Taitō-ku, door to door, bags never leaving the car, and about 1 h 25 min.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 14. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 12–15 min.

Every coach bay, ticket counter and taxi stand at Terminal 1 is on 1F, and all check-in is on 4F. This is a three-floor move with hold baggage, not the level walk it looks like on paper. Step-free by lift, and the lifts queue.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 15. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 1 h 15 min.

Two deadlines here, not one, and the old plan only ever checked the first. Air Canada's bag drop closes 60 minutes before departure — 16:35. Boarding a 777-300ER closes around twenty minutes before pushback — about 17:15. Off the 12:45 coach you start check-in at 14:49 and reach the gate about 16:04: an hour and three quarters on the bag drop and an hour and ten at the gate. Off the 13:45 you would start at 16:14 and reach the gate at 17:29, which is six minutes before departure and after the door has shut.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 16. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: No additional charge for this movement or task.

Duration: 55 min.

File the ArriveCAN advance declaration before landing — it is the single biggest saving here.

Start time estimated from the preceding itinerary leg; reconfirm on the day.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 18. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: Both flight legs are covered by the roundtrip flight quote / eventual purchase; no additional fare here.

Duration: 12 h 25 min.

Fifty-five minutes shorter than the outbound, and the jet stream is why. You land before you took off, on paper.

Times from the existing itinerary; verify against your ticket. Roundtrip price is the user-supplied October 14 snapshot.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 17. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.

Cost basis: One YUL → home car; home zone unknown. Repo's older C$49.45 flat fare is not a confirmed home quote.

Duration: 45 min.

The regulated flat fare is C$49.45 between 05:00 and 23:00. Confirm the pick-up zone with the driver rather than assuming the old arrivals kerb — it has moved repeatedly during the rebuild.

Start time estimated from the preceding itinerary leg; reconfirm on the day.

Source: data/transit.ts · day-11, leg 19. Prices: existing data or explicitly labeled planning allowances; reconfirm for 2027.