Island Hopping: Tobishima & Shimanami Kaido
Hiroshima Airport in / out
A slow tour across the islands of the Seto Inland Sea via the Tobishima and Shimanami Kaido routes — including a night on a remote island at an onsen hotel with a spectacular open-air bath, the temple town of Onomichi, and the historic port of Tomonoura.
Day by day
Day 1
- Arrive Hiroshima Airport around 13:00
- Miyajima — Itsukushima Shrine
- Hotel at Miyajima-guchi around 17:00
Day 2
- Kure naval harbor cruise
- Lunch & Yamato Museum or JMSDF Kure Museum
- Tobishima Kaido island route
- Ferry: Konaga Port → Akashi Port
- Kinoe Onsen island hotel around 15:30
Day 3
- Ferry: Kinoe Port → Munakata Port
- Shimanami Kaido — Kosanji Temple & Miraishin no Oka
- Western-style lunch
- Onomichi — Senkoji Temple (ropeway)
- Tomonoura Onsen around 16:30
Day 4
- Walk the historic Tomonoura townscape with a local guide
- Steak kaiseki lunch
- Hiroshima Airport around 13:30
Timings are indicative and assume a private charter vehicle. Everything on this page — transport, hotels and ryokan, restaurants, entrance tickets and guides — is arranged by us locally and quoted at net rates on a single invoice.
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