Test run from Fukuoka to Yeosu. (Yachtpia)
The Beetle Ferry, which currently operates between Busan and the Japanese city of Fukuoka, will make daily trips from Japan to Yeosu next year while the Jeollanam-do city hosts the 2012 World Expo. From the Korea Herald last week:
The state-run Korea Tourism Organization said Wednesday that it has secured a sea route linking the southern port city of Yeosu to Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, in preparation of next year’s Yeosu World Expo.
The organization, together with the South Jeolla provincial government and the Yeosu city government, has arranged for a chartered ferry service by Japan’s Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) over the route.
The high-speed ferry “Beatle” [sic] will travel once a day between Yeosu port and Fukuoka’s Hakata port during the 2012 Yeosu Expo, scheduled to run May through August next year.
Beatle is capable of accommodating 200 people and takes three hours and 45 minutes for a one-way trip, with the ferry service estimated to cost about 200,000 won ($185.36) per passenger.
Fukuoka is probably best known to foreign teachers in Korea as a nearby visa-run destination, but as I learned in late-2009 it's fine for a short vacation, too.
6 comments:
Never had any issues with seasickness on Japanese ferries. Then, I come to Korea, go out to Ulleungdo and Dokdo, and I'm dying. Ugh. Hope this one to Fukuoka is more stable.
I've been back and forth to Fukuoka a couple times and was fine (usually slept). My wife felt sick, though.
Fukuoka is lovely but man, like the rest of Japan, so darn expensive.
And the ferry service is top notch. I was impressed because we hit some choppy water and the jetfoil just pushed on through it, no problems.
I think I might take advantage of this while it's available.
Turner, were the boats similar in size? All things being equal, the waters between Ullŭngdo and Tokto and the mainland can be very choppy, while the Tsushima Strait between Kyushu and the Korean mainland is relatively calm. The former, I understand, gets canceled a fair amount of time because of sea conditions. The boat to Fukuoka, though, seems to go rain or shine.
Don't forget!
There is also a ferry service to Shimomoseki from Gwangyang on Thursdays and Saturdays.
Cheers Brian
Steve Barber
www.dokdo-takeshima.com
I didn't forget . . .
I just never knew about it. ㅋㅋ
Thanks, Steve.
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