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From Irago, there are regular ferries across the water to Ise, only an hour away. On this Golden Week weekend, the ferry was relatively crowded, but I had no problem walking on with my bagged bike (cheaper than rolling it on board). My fellow passengers were the typical mixture of traveling families with kids, local residents, and young people traveling by car or motorcycle.

Journey's end. You're looking at the Mikimoto Pearl Island, home of the world's first cultured pearl enterprise, and a MAJOR tourist trap. I can at least recommend the view of the pretty island, located just offshore in the bay at Ise. If you're headed straight back to Kansai, you don't even have to assemble the bagged bike - just carry it across the street from the ferry landing to the Kintetsu train station and take the train all the way back to Osaka.