Intensive
Japan's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
Kyushu: Castles and Volcanoes
- 10 nights
- Medium pace
- Returning visitor
Medium pace
Kyushu rewards a second trip to Japan. This loop out of Fukuoka takes in the steaming hells of Beppu, the castle town of Kumamoto with Mount Aso beside it, and Kagoshima under its smoking volcano, with Nagasaki as a day trip from the start.
Volcanic hot springs, slow castle towns, the south at its own pace.
Trip facts
- Length10 nights
- PaceMedium
- Designed forReturning visitor
- GatewaysIn and out via Fukuoka
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- Day 1Arrive
- Day 2Day trip: Nagasaki
- Day 3Explore
Japan's fastest-growing city and food capital of the west - Hakata ramen, yatai street stalls, and a young international energy.
A city of extraordinary cultural fusion and atomic bomb history, built across 22 hills with Dutch, Chinese, and Portuguese layers at every turn.
- Day 4Travel in
- Day 5Day trip: Aso
Home to one of Japan's most impressive castle complexes, Kumamon mascot fever, and the gateway to the Aso caldera.
- Day 6Travel in
- Day 7Explore
Japan's most prolific hot spring city - eight 'hells' of boiling coloured geothermal pools and over 2,000 onsen outlets across a single city.
- Day 8Travel in
- Day 9Explore
The 'Naples of Japan' - a subtropical city under an active volcano, gateway to Yakushima island and Satsuma samurai heritage.
- Day 10Depart
Japan's fastest-growing city and food capital of the west - Hakata ramen, yatai street stalls, and a young international energy.
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