Intensive
Japan's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
A Taste of Kyushu
- 7 nights
- Medium pace
- Returning visitor
Medium pace
A week is enough for a first loop of Kyushu if you leave the far south for next time. Out of Fukuoka for the yatai stalls and Hakata ramen, a day trip to Nagasaki's harbour and atomic history, Kumamoto's castle with Mount Aso's caldera beside it, and Beppu for its steaming hells and hot-sand baths. Volcanoes, castles and onsen in seven nights.
One week in the south: Fukuoka's stalls, a day in Nagasaki, Kumamoto's castle by Mount Aso, and Beppu's steam.
Trip facts
- Length7 nights
- PaceMedium
- Designed forReturning visitor
- GatewaysIn and out via Fukuoka
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- Day 1Arrive
- Day 2Day trip: Nagasaki
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 3Travel in
- Day 4Day trip: Aso
Home to one of Japan's most impressive castle complexes, Kumamon mascot fever, and the gateway to the Aso caldera.
- Day 5Travel in
- Day 6Explore
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 7Depart
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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