This is a leisurely boat ride on a donko boat operated by a boatman from the boarding area near Nishitetsu Yanagawa Station to the “Yanagawa Domain Lord Tachibana’s Residence Ohana,” a distance of less than 4 km.
The boat ride takes about 1 hour and 10 minutes, and boat riders get to enjoy the scenery and charm of it all.
* The fare is reasonable as well, ranging from 1,500 to 1,650 yen.
The “moat wall,” a network of mesh-patterend moats built approximately 400 years ago for the fortification of Yanagawa Castle, has a radius of 2 km and stretches 60 km in total length.
Initially, it was used as a water supply for daily life and as a waterway, but since the Meiji period (1868-1912), river boating using donko boats has flourished and continues to the present day.
