Meanwhile, Tomonoura was repeatedly designated as a port of call for Joseon (Korean) diplomatic missions to Japan, and there remains an episode in which a Korean officer (従事官) named Yi Bang-won (李邦彦), a member of the eighth mission of 1711, praised the landscape of Tomonoura viewed from the Fukuzen-ji Temple where they stayed overnight as 'the most beautiful, picturesque scenery in the world east of Joseon' (the words were written down on the board and hung in on the wall inside the Taichoro Reception Hall of the Fukuzen-ji Temple).
また、朝鮮通信使の寄航地にも度々指定され、1711年（正徳元年）の第8回通信使では従事官の李邦彦が宿泊した福禅寺から見た鞆の浦の景色を「日東第一形勝」（朝鮮より東の世界で一番風光明媚な場所の意）と賞賛した（この文を額にしたものが福禅寺対潮楼内に掲げられている）。