Takamatsu Highlights

After disembark your cruise, you will meet and be welcomed by guide and driver at the port, and then transfer to the first spot in this excursion – Takamatsu Castle ruins. Takamatsu Castle (Takamatsujō) is also known as Tamamo Castle. The castle was built in 1590 adjacent to the Seto Inland Sea. It is one of the few Japanese castles built along a waterfront, and features saltwater moats that draw directly from the sea.

Leave Takamatsu Castle, we move to Genpei Yashima Old Battle Field, wonder around then move to the temple of Yashima stands. Yashima-ji Temple belong to a Shingon-sect and located on the top of the Yashima plateau near Takamatsu on Shikoku. Yashima-ji Temple is a branch of Ninna-ji Temple in western Kyoto and it is the 84th temple on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage.

The last highlight of this excursion is Ritsurin Garden, a daimyo (feudal lord) garden, completed in 1745 after over a period of one hundred years. The garden was designated as a Special Place of Scenic Beauty, there are 6 ponds and 13 landscaped hills in this spacious garden. You can stroll around and relish in the changing landscape, mesmerized with the variety of scenery. At the end of the trip, the driver will take you back to the port. Trip ends.