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Best days · Next 12 months

If you can choose your date, choose one of these.

Not every day lets you walk to the gate, and not every walkable day is convenient. These are the dates where the seabed is open longest during ordinary visiting hours — no dawn starts, no overnight stay required.

How these days were chosen

Two things make a date good. The tide has to drop below 100 cm so the seabed is exposed — and that has to happen while you're realistically on the island. A four-hour window at 4 am is no use to a day visitor.

So every date below is ranked by walkable minutes between 09:00 and 17:00, not by total window length. Dates marked SPRING fall near a new or full moon, when the tidal range is at its largest — those days also give the highest evening tide, so the gate floats at its most dramatic the same night.

What the numbers mean

  • Seabed exposed and walkable below 100 cm
  • Gate appears to float above 250 cm
  • Typical walkable window 2–4 hours
  • Days with any walkable window, next 12 months 271

The pick

Ten best dates in the next year

DateWalkable windowIn daylight hoursLowest tide
Sat 3 Jul 2027SPRING12:40–16:554h 15m23 cm
Sun 1 Aug 2027SPRING12:35–16:504h 15m28 cm
Fri 4 Jun 2027SPRING12:55–17:054h 5m19 cm
Fri 18 Jun 2027SPRING13:00–17:054h34 cm
Mon 30 Aug 202712:35–16:303h 55m36 cm
Wed 19 May 2027SPRING12:45–16:353h 50m34 cm
Tue 31 Aug 2027SPRING13:10–17:203h 50m15 cm
Thu 20 May 2027SPRING13:15–17:203h 45m20 cm
Thu 3 Jun 2027SPRING12:30–16:153h 45m43 cm
Fri 2 Jul 202712:10–15:553h 45m49 cm

Ranked by walkable time falling between 09:00 and 17:00. Heights are centimetres above chart datum, from Japan Meteorological Agency predictions for Hiroshima. Regenerated daily.

Month by month

The best three days of each month

September 2026

DateWalkable windowIn daylight hoursLowest tide
Sat 26 Sep 2026SPRING02:25–04:10
13:50–17:05		3h 10m49 cm
Fri 25 Sep 2026SPRING13:25–16:202h 55m63 cm
Sun 27 Sep 2026SPRING02:15–05:10
14:20–17:35		2h 40m43 cm

October 2026

DateWalkable windowIn daylight hoursLowest tide
Fri 9 Oct 202601:50–03:05
13:10–16:10		3h59 cm
Sat 10 Oct 2026SPRING01:35–04:25
13:45–16:45		3h55 cm
Thu 8 Oct 202612:35–15:202h 45m71 cm

November 2026

DateWalkable windowIn daylight hoursLowest tide
Mon 2 Nov 202606:40–09:200h 20m80 cm
Sun 1 Nov 202605:05–08:500h48 cm
Sat 7 Nov 202600:45–02:550h81 cm

December 2026

DateWalkable windowIn daylight hoursLowest tide
Tue 1 Dec 202606:20–09:150h 15m72 cm
Sun 6 Dec 202600:10–02:200h84 cm
Mon 7 Dec 202600:20–03:350h62 cm

January 2027

DateWalkable windowIn daylight hoursLowest tide
Sun 24 Jan 2027SPRING02:10–06:45
16:40–17:15		0h 20m-10 cm
Mon 25 Jan 2027SPRING02:55–07:20
16:45–18:25		0h 15m-5 cm
Tue 5 Jan 202700:20–02:500h82 cm

February 2027

DateWalkable windowIn daylight hoursLowest tide
Sun 21 Feb 2027SPRING01:25–05:45
15:10–16:55		1h 45m6 cm
Mon 22 Feb 2027SPRING02:05–06:20
15:20–17:55		1h 40m1 cm
Tue 23 Feb 2027SPRING02:50–06:50
15:40–18:40		1h 20m8 cm

March 2027

DateWalkable windowIn daylight hoursLowest tide
Mon 22 Mar 2027SPRING01:25–05:10
14:10–17:05		2h 50m28 cm
Tue 23 Mar 2027SPRING02:05–05:45
14:25–17:50		2h 35m27 cm
Wed 24 Mar 2027SPRING02:45–06:10
14:45–18:30		2h 15m23 cm

April 2027

DateWalkable windowIn daylight hoursLowest tide
Tue 20 Apr 2027SPRING01:35–04:15
13:25–16:55		3h 30m36 cm
Wed 21 Apr 2027SPRING02:15–04:45
13:45–17:40		3h 15m18 cm
Tue 6 Apr 2027SPRING01:50–04:30
14:00–16:50		2h 50m61 cm

May 2027

DateWalkable windowIn daylight hoursLowest tide
Wed 19 May 2027SPRING12:45–16:353h 50m34 cm
Thu 20 May 2027SPRING13:15–17:203h 45m20 cm
Thu 6 May 2027SPRING02:40–03:50
13:25–17:20		3h 35m22 cm

June 2027

DateWalkable windowIn daylight hoursLowest tide
Fri 4 Jun 2027SPRING12:55–17:054h 5m19 cm
Fri 18 Jun 2027SPRING13:00–17:054h34 cm
Thu 3 Jun 2027SPRING12:30–16:153h 45m43 cm

July 2027

DateWalkable windowIn daylight hoursLowest tide
Sat 3 Jul 2027SPRING12:40–16:554h 15m23 cm
Fri 2 Jul 202712:10–15:553h 45m49 cm
Sun 4 Jul 2027SPRING13:15–17:503h 45m2 cm

August 2027

DateWalkable windowIn daylight hoursLowest tide
Sun 1 Aug 2027SPRING12:35–16:504h 15m28 cm
Mon 30 Aug 202712:35–16:303h 55m36 cm
Tue 31 Aug 2027SPRING13:10–17:203h 50m15 cm

September 2027

DateWalkable windowIn daylight hoursLowest tide
Wed 29 Sep 2027SPRING01:50–03:35
13:10–16:40		3h 30m39 cm
Tue 28 Sep 202712:35–15:503h 15m54 cm
Wed 1 Sep 2027SPRING02:45–04:40
13:50–18:00		3h 10m6 cm

If your dates are already fixed

Most people can't move a trip around a tide table. If your dates are set, check today's window or the 90-day calendar and plan the day around whatever the sea is doing — the itinerary is built to slide either way.

And if the tide is high the whole time you're there, that isn't a wasted trip. A floating gate is the photograph everyone actually comes for. The walk underneath is the bonus.

Once you have your date

The strongest days above are mostly spring tides, and they book out first — the island has fewer than 30 places to stay. Lock the date, then the room.

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Month-by-month tide tables →

Found a date? The night before is when it gets good.

On spring tide days the same date gives a deep low tide and a high evening tide under the illumination — but only if you're still on the island after the last day-trippers leave.

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