Intensive
Japan's Greatest Hits
Greatest hits, no padding, mostly trains.
- First visit
- Base cities: Tokyo · Kyoto · Osaka
- culture
- food
- urban
- history
Itinerary
Kyushu's Hot Spring Trail
- 9 nights
- Medium pace
- Returning visitor
Medium pace
A Kyushu loop for soaking. Fukuoka to start, the misty ryokan town of Yufuin, the steaming hells of Beppu, and the southern warmth of Kagoshima under its volcano, then back to fly out of Fukuoka.
Steam over the rooftops, sand baths by the sea, the south's quietest baths.
Trip facts
- Length9 nights
- PaceMedium
- Designed forReturning visitor
- GatewaysIn and out via Fukuoka
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- Day 1Arrive
- Day 2Explore
Japan's fastest-growing city and food capital of the west - Hakata ramen, yatai street stalls, and a young international energy.
- Day 3Travel in
- Day 4Day trip: Yufuin
- Day 5Explore
Japan's most prolific hot spring city - eight 'hells' of boiling coloured geothermal pools and over 2,000 onsen outlets across a single city.
Japan's most refined small onsen resort, with twin volcanic peaks above lake-mist mornings and boutique ryokan.
- Day 6Travel in
- Day 7Explore
The 'Naples of Japan' - a subtropical city under an active volcano, gateway to Yakushima island and Satsuma samurai heritage.
- Day 8Travel in
- Day 9Depart
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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