Taketomi and the Yaeyama islands

What we could not find out

7 things the researcher looked for and did not find, in their own words, with where to ask instead. None of this goes into the planner; it stays here until someone confirms it.

1. 01

   The brief's framing of Hateruma as 'notoriously rough and cancels often' matches what Wikivoyage and local reporting describe, but a Google News search for 波照間航路 欠航 turned up Okinawa Times and Ryukyu Shimpo headlines about a larger vessel introduced to cut the cancellation rate that could not be resolved to direct publisher URLs in this session (Google News redirect links do not decode to the article without extra tooling); someone checking should search 波照間航路 欠航 or 悪天候の欠航減へ directly on okinawatimes.co.jp or ryukyushimpo.jp.

2. 02

   An earlier draft of this entry stated in two options that a larger, more stable vessel – in one place given a displacement of 284 tonnes – had been put on the Ishigaki–Hateruma route to cut cancellations. Neither the Hateruma Wikivoyage article nor An-ei Kankō's timetable page says anything about a vessel change or a cancellation rate, and the tonnage figure had no source at all. Both statements have been removed; the unresolved Okinawa Times / Ryukyu Shimpo lead above is all there is.

3. 03

   Taketomijima Kōtsū's own site gives a flat ¥300 adult / ¥150 child route-bus fare and no day pass, while Wikivoyage still gives ¥200/310 by distance plus a ¥1,030 day pass. An earlier draft carried the Wikivoyage figures under a 2026 fare year. The operator's figures are used above; nobody has confirmed whether the day pass still exists, so ask at the port counter.

4. 04

   Could not confirm current 2026 fares for the Ishigaki–Hatoma or Ishigaki–Kuroshima routes; Kuroshima's Wikivoyage article returned empty content this pass.

5. 05

   The exact current typhoon-season cancellation rate (days per month) for Ishigaki–Hateruma is not published as a number anywhere found; only that it is materially worse than the other Yaeyama routes.

6. 06

   Taketomi's one taxi (phone +81 80-2751-3229 per Wikivoyage) was not independently reverified this pass; treat as unconfirmed for current operation.

7. 07

   Yaeyama Kankō Ferry's own site (ybs.co.jp) and several other operator/government domains listed in the recon pass were blocked or unreachable (SSL/DNS failures) and could not be checked directly; fares above rely on An-ei Kankō's live 2026 fare table plus Wikivoyage for the others, which should be treated as consistent across the three-operator pool but not independently confirmed per operator.

What the planner can route today

The options above live on the place page, not in the departure board: a boat that comes when you phone has no time to show. What the board can do for Taketomi is this.

N

Scheduled flightsnearest airport HUN is 253 km away

Y

Trains and coachesTransitous carries 515 timetable feeds for this country, 99 with real-time

Y

Ferries竹富, 1 km, 安栄観光 / 八重山観光フェリー; sailings estimated

Y

Driving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band

N

Bike and scooter shareno share feed known

N

Cruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Miyakojima, 134 km.