Kumamoto Port: next ferry, next bus
Ferry piers for Shimabara and the shuttle bus stop
Next boat
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Kumamoto Ferry, Ocean Arrow, Kumamoto Port to Shimabara Port: first 07:30, last 16:40, 6 sailings a day, about every 110 min, 30 min crossing.
Key facts (from the timetables and the live feeds, as of 2026-09-26)
- Kumamoto Ferry, Ocean Arrow, Kumamoto Port to Shimabara Port: first 07:30, last 16:40, 6 sailings a day, about every 110 min, 30 min crossing.
- Kyusho Ferry, Kumamoto Port to Shimabara Port: first 07:00, last 17:45, 9 sailings a day, about every 80 min, 60 min crossing.
- Kumamoto Ferry, Ocean Arrow, Shimabara Port to Kumamoto Port: first 08:25, last 17:30, 6 sailings a day, about every 110 min, 30 min crossing.
- Kyusho Ferry, Shimabara Port to Kumamoto Port: first 07:00, last 17:45, 9 sailings a day, about every 85 min, 60 min crossing.
- 2 bus routes by 1 operators leave from 3 stops here; the board shows the stop number where the operator publishes it.
- Live positions and delays are shown for buses that report; boats are timetable only.
Boats from here
Kumamoto Ferry, Ocean Arrow Kumamoto Port → Shimabara Port · 30 min crossing
timetable 07:30 · 09:25 · 11:10 · 13:00 · 14:50 · 16:40
Last departure today 16:40
Kyusho Ferry Kumamoto Port → Shimabara Port · 60 min crossing
timetable 07:00 · 08:20 · 09:50 · 11:00 · 12:20 · 13:35 · 15:10 · 16:05 · 17:45
Last departure today 17:45
Boats back
Kumamoto Ferry, Ocean Arrow Shimabara Port → Kumamoto Port · 30 min crossing
timetable 08:25 · 10:15 · 12:05 · 13:50 · 15:45 · 17:30
Last departure today 17:30
Kyusho Ferry Shimabara Port → Kumamoto Port · 60 min crossing
timetable 07:00 · 08:35 · 09:40 · 11:05 · 12:15 · 13:40 · 14:50 · 16:25 · 17:45
Last departure today 17:45
Buses from here
Reading…
3 routes
- S3-2 熊本港→西区役所～蓮台寺→桜町バスターミナル → Sakuramachi Bus Terminal (Kumamoto Ko Ferry Noriba Mae)
- S3-2 熊本港→西区役所～蓮台寺→桜町バスターミナル → Sakuramachi Bus Terminal (Kumamoto Ko Ohashiguchi)
- S3-2 桜町バスターミナル→蓮台寺～西区役所→熊本港 → 熊本港 (Kumamoto Ko Ohashiguchi)
Where the buses are now
Map: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan tiles. Dots are the reporting buses that serve this place; the ring is the stop.
Getting here and away
Two companies sail to Shimabara from the same port: Kumamoto Ferry's Ocean Arrow in about 30 minutes and Kyusho Ferry in about 60 minutes. Take whichever leaves first if time matters; the Kyusho Ferry is the slower crossing.
The Ocean Arrow adds an evening sailing on weekends and holidays from April to December, and the Kyusho Ferry adds a late sailing on a few holiday dates; neither is on this board. Both companies reduce service during dock maintenance in June and December.
The shuttle bus S3-2 links the port with Sakuramachi Bus Terminal, and other Sanko buses reach Kumamoto Station.
How to read this
live Live: the operator's own position and delay for that bus, updated every 15 seconds.
timetable Timetable: the published time. The bus or boat is not reporting a position, so the minutes are from the timetable, not from where it is.
Other places in Kumamoto
- Kumamoto Station Bus stops at the east (Shirakawa) exit
- Sakuramachi Bus Terminal The city's main bus terminal, under SAKURA MACHI Kumamoto
- Kumamoto Castle Kumamoto-jo-mae, Ninomaru car park and Torichosuji stops
- Aso Aso Station, Kusasenri and the Asosan-jo crater terminal
- Aso Kumamoto Airport Bus stops at the domestic and international terminals
- All places
Sources
Bus timetables, positions and delays come from the operators' open data, refreshed every 15 to 30 seconds by the operators. Each operator and its licence:
- Sanko Bus CC BY 4.0 · the operator's open data (via the GTFS data repository) · https://gtfs-data.jp/ · timetable valid to 2026-12-28
Boat times copied from the operators' published timetables on 2026-09-26. Boats do not publish live positions. On holidays and busy days the operators run extra or different timetables; check at the pier. Kumamoto Ferry, Ocean Arrow · Kyusho Ferry · Kumamoto Ferry, Ocean Arrow · Kyusho Ferry
KUON GEO NEXT shows, for one place, the next departure of everything that leaves from it. It is built from the open data that Japanese operators publish, and it says on every line whether the number is live or a timetable. It is made by KUON GEO, which measures position and the sky in Japan.
This board comes from one open endpoint: https://kuongeo.com/api/next/kumamoto/kumamoto-port