Changelog

Heavy rain, wind, high waves and thunderstorms, from the Takamatsu Local Meteorological Office's own feed. Naoshima is reported as its own area rather than lumped in with Takamatsu City, so these are the island's warnings. A warning is not a ferry cancellation, and the page links Shikoku Kisen for that.

Uno or Takamatsu — which way to go for a hospital, a supermarket or the prefectural office, what the boats cost, where to park on the other side, and whether you will make the last one home, worked against your clock. The fares are Shikoku Kisen's own, read this month; the two crossings are priced separately because they differ by a lot.

The island's clinic and pharmacy hours in one place, what to do when the clinic is closed, and how mainland care works — because the ferry is the only way across. Emergency guidance and the monthly duty-doctor roster are linked from the town.

Search any household item to see which bag or category it belongs in, with the whole-island weekly schedule and the local rules that catch people out — put out by 8:30 a.m., never puncture spray cans, plastic packaging in burnable. Taken from the town's own sorting guide.

The Uno–Honmura boat runs 5 times a day (we said about 7), and the last car ferry off Miyanoura to Uno is 20:25 (one note wrongly said 19:02). Fares, first and last sailings on all routes verified; night-boat times and fares added.

The ¥100 town bus is the island's only public transport, and its timetable lives in a Japanese PDF. The new tool works the published times against the clock — the next bus from Miyanoura Port, Honmura and Tsutsujiso, the ferry connections, and what to do when the 28-seat bus fills up.

Naoshima has no bridge, and fog, strong wind and typhoons do cancel the boats. The new tool brings Shikoku Kisen's own operation notices together with the live wind and fog on the Uno and Takamatsu crossings, and always links the official status page. It shows the weather and the operator's notices — it doesn't make the call.

Which Art Sites Are Open? lets you pick the day you're visiting and see which Benesse Art Site museums are open — handling the Monday closures (and the national-holiday rule that shifts them), winter maintenance closures, seasonal hours and Chichu's timed reservation. It always points to the official site to confirm before you set out.

Naoshima now has its first three tools. Naoshima Ferries lays out every boat on and off the island by route and dock and works out the last boat home from your clock — the trap that catches day-trippers — with Shikoku Kisen's live timetable linked and an honest note that fog, wind and typhoons cancel crossings. Naoshima Through the Year walks month by month through the Inland Sea weather, the typhoon risk, the winter museum-maintenance closures, and when the ferries and lodging fill up (2026 is a quiet year between Triennale festivals). Getting Around Naoshima answers the practical questions — reserving Chichu, the closed-Monday rule, the 100-yen bus and the bikes, and life on an island with no bridge.