9 Night Best Of Japan Cruise
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9-night voyage departing Hong Kong.
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9 Night Best Of Japan Cruise
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Day 1
Hong Kong , Hong Kong
Monday, 03/01/2028
The Hong Kong Island skyline, with its ever-growing number of skyscrapers, speaks to ambition and money. Paris, London, even New York were centuries in the making, while Hong Kong's towers, bright lights, and glitzy shopping emporia weren't yet part of the urban scene when many of the young investment bankers who fuel one of the world's leading financial centers were born. Commerce is concentrated in the glittering high-rises of Central, tucked between Victoria Harbor and forested peaks on Hong Kong Island's north shore. While it's easy to think all the bright lights are the sum of today's Hong Kong, you need only walk or board a tram for the short jaunt west into Western to discover a side of Hong Kong that is more traditionally Chinese but no less high-energy. You'll discover the real Hong Kong to the east of Central, too, in Wan Chai, Causeway Bay, and beyond. Amid the residential towers are restaurants, shopping malls, bars, convention centers, a nice smattering of museums, and—depending on fate and the horse you wager on—one of Hong Kong's luckiest or unluckiest spots, the Happy Valley Racecourse. Kowloon sprawls across a generous swath of the Chinese mainland across Victoria Harbour from Central. Tsim Sha Tsui, at the tip of Kowloon peninsula, is packed with glitzy shops, first-rate museums, and eye-popping views of the skyline across the water. Just to the north are the teeming market streets of Mong Kok and in the dense residential neighborhoods beyond, two of Hong Kong's most enchanting spiritual sights, Wong Tai Sin Temple and Chi Lin Nunnery. As you navigate this huge metropolis (easy to do on the excellent transportation network), keep in mind that streets are usually numbered odd on one side, even on the other. There's no baseline for street numbers and no block-based numbering system, but street signs indicate building numbers for any given block.
Day 3
Okinawa , Japan
Wednesday, 05/01/2028
Day 5
Osaka , Japan
Friday, 07/01/2028
From Minami's neon-lighted Dotombori and historic Tenno-ji to the high-rise class and underground shopping labyrinths of Kita, Osaka is a city that pulses with its own unique rhythm. Though Osaka has no shortage of tourist sites, it is the city itself that is the greatest attraction. Home to some of Japan's best food, most unique fashions, and warmest locals, Osaka does not beg to be explored—it demands it. More than anywhere else in Japan, it rewards the impulsive turn down an interesting side street or the chat with a random stranger. People do not come here to see the city, they come to experience it.Excluded from the formal circles of power and aristocratic culture in 16th-century Edo (Tokyo), Osaka took advantage of its position as Japan's trading center, developing its own art forms such as Bunraku puppet theater and Rakugo comic storytelling. It was in Osaka that feudal Japan's famed Floating World—the dining, theater, and pleasure district—was at its strongest and most inventive. Wealthy merchants and common laborers alike squandered fortunes on culinary delights, turning Osaka into "Japan's Kitchen," a moniker the city still has today. Though the city suffered a blow when the Meiji government canceled all of the samurai class's outstanding debts to the merchants, it was quick to recover. At the turn of the 20th century, it had become Japan's largest and most prosperous city, a center of commerce and manufacturing.Today Osaka remains Japan's iconoclastic metropolis, refusing to fit Tokyo's norms and expectations. Unlike the hordes of Tokyo, Osakans are fiercely independent. As a contrast to the neon and concrete surroundings, the people of Osaka are known as Japan's friendliest and most outgoing. Ask someone on the street for directions in Tokyo and you are lucky to get so much as a glance. Ask someone in Osaka and you get a conversation.The main areas of the city, Kita (north) and Minami (south), are divided by two rivers: the Dojima-gawa and the Tosabori-gawa. Between Kita and Minami is Naka-no-shima, an island and the municipal center of Osaka. Kita (north of Chuo Dori) is Osaka's economic hub and contains Osaka's largest stations: JR Osaka and Hankyu Umeda. The area is crammed with shops, department stores, and restaurants. Nearby are a nightlife district, Kita-shinchi; Naka-no-shima and the Museum of Oriental Ceramics; Osaka-jo (Osaka Castle); and Osaka Koen (Osaka Park). Restaurants, bars, department stores, and boutiques attract Osaka's youth to Minami (south Chuo Dori); theatergoers head to the National Bunraku Theatre and electronics-lovers to Den Den Town. For a glimpse of old Osaka, visit Tenno-ji Temple and Shin Sekai. The main stations are Namba, Shin-sai-bashi, Namba Nankai, and Tenno-ji. There's easy access to the Municipal Museum of Fine Art and Sumiyoshi Taisha (Sumiyoshi Grand Shrine).The bay area, to the west of the city center, is home to the Osaka Aquarium and Universal Studios Japan. The Shinkansen stops at Shin-Osaka, three stops (about five minutes) north of Osaka Station on the Mido-suji subway line. To the north of Shin-Osaka is Senri Expo Park.
Day 6
Kochi , Japan
Saturday, 08/01/2028
Day 7
Kagoshima , Japan
Sunday, 09/01/2028
Kagoshima city is the capital of Kagoshima prefecture and also Kyushu’s southernmost major city. This city is often compared to its Italian sister city Naples, due to its’s similarities such as mild climate and active volcano, Sakurajima. Sakurajima is one of the most renowned active volcanos not only in Japan but also in the whole entire world. This smoking Sakurajima is centred in Kinko Bay and is one of the main symbols of this prefecture. We cannot talk about Sakurajima without the history of continuous eruption. Sakurajima used to be an isolated island; however, the land has banded together with Osumi peninsula from the eruption in 1914. You may have a chance to see the smoke coming from the top of Sakurajima depending on the weather condition. Not only does the scenery of Sakurajima represent the beauty of Kagoshima City but Senganen garden is also symbolic to elegance in the Kagoshima region. This Japanese garden was constructed by a feudal lord, Mitsuhisa Shimazu, as a guest house of the Kagoshima castle which attracts many visitors for its splendid view.
Day 10
Hong Kong , Hong Kong
Wednesday, 12/01/2028
The Hong Kong Island skyline, with its ever-growing number of skyscrapers, speaks to ambition and money. Paris, London, even New York were centuries in the making, while Hong Kong's towers, bright lights, and glitzy shopping emporia weren't yet part of the urban scene when many of the young investment bankers who fuel one of the world's leading financial centers were born. Commerce is concentrated in the glittering high-rises of Central, tucked between Victoria Harbor and forested peaks on Hong Kong Island's north shore. While it's easy to think all the bright lights are the sum of today's Hong Kong, you need only walk or board a tram for the short jaunt west into Western to discover a side of Hong Kong that is more traditionally Chinese but no less high-energy. You'll discover the real Hong Kong to the east of Central, too, in Wan Chai, Causeway Bay, and beyond. Amid the residential towers are restaurants, shopping malls, bars, convention centers, a nice smattering of museums, and—depending on fate and the horse you wager on—one of Hong Kong's luckiest or unluckiest spots, the Happy Valley Racecourse. Kowloon sprawls across a generous swath of the Chinese mainland across Victoria Harbour from Central. Tsim Sha Tsui, at the tip of Kowloon peninsula, is packed with glitzy shops, first-rate museums, and eye-popping views of the skyline across the water. Just to the north are the teeming market streets of Mong Kok and in the dense residential neighborhoods beyond, two of Hong Kong's most enchanting spiritual sights, Wong Tai Sin Temple and Chi Lin Nunnery. As you navigate this huge metropolis (easy to do on the excellent transportation network), keep in mind that streets are usually numbered odd on one side, even on the other. There's no baseline for street numbers and no block-based numbering system, but street signs indicate building numbers for any given block.
Room Type & Prices
All prices per person based on double occupancy. Solo traveller prices — single occupancy. Contact our cruise experts for the latest availability and best fares.
Interior Guarantee
166 sqft · Up to 4 guests
Connecting Interior
166 sqft · Up to 2 guests
Interior
166 sqft · Up to 4 guests
Interior with Virtual Balcony
166 sqft · Up to 4 guests
Ocean View Guarantee
182 sqft · Up to 2 guests
Ocean View
182 sqft · Up to 4 guests
Spacious Ocean View
214 sqft · Up to 4 guests
Studio Interior
101 sqft · Up to 1 guests
Ocean View Balcony Guarantee
242–253 sqft · Up to 4 guests
Obstructed Ocean View Balcony
253 sqft · Up to 4 guests
Connecting Ocean View Balcony
253 sqft · Up to 2 guests
Ocean View Balcony
253 sqft · Up to 4 guests
Ocean View with Large Balcony
242 sqft · Up to 4 guests
Studio Ocean View Balcony
174 sqft · Up to 1 guests
Deluxe Stateroom Guarantee
Up to 2 guests
Junior Suite
331 sqft · Up to 4 guests
Sky Balcony
279 sqft · Up to 2 guests
Sky Junior Suite
348 sqft · Up to 2 guests
Grand Suite - 1 Bedroom
460 sqft · Up to 4 guests
Owner's Suite - 1 Bedroom
800 sqft · Up to 4 guests
Grand Loft Suite
856 sqft · Up to 4 guests
Ultimate Family Suite
2978 sqft · Up to 11 guests
Inside
| Cabin | Grade | Per Person | Avail. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interior Guarantee · 166 sqft | ZI | Enquire → | ||
| Connecting Interior · 166 sqft | CI | Enquire → | ||
| Interior · 166 sqft | 4V Interior (4V) | Enquire → | ||
| 2V Interior (2V) | Enquire → | |||
| 3V Interior (3V) | Enquire → | |||
| 1V Interior (1V) | Enquire → | |||
| Interior with Virtual Balcony · 166 sqft | 2U Interior with Virtual Balcony (2U) | Enquire → | ||
| 1U Interior with Virtual Balcony (1U) | Enquire → |
Interior Guarantee · 166 sqft
ZI
Connecting Interior · 166 sqft
CI
Interior · 166 sqft
4V Interior (4V)
Interior · 166 sqft
2V Interior (2V)
Interior · 166 sqft
3V Interior (3V)
Interior · 166 sqft
1V Interior (1V)
Interior with Virtual Balcony · 166 sqft
2U Interior with Virtual Balcony (2U)
Interior with Virtual Balcony · 166 sqft
1U Interior with Virtual Balcony (1U)
Oceanview
| Cabin | Grade | Per Person | Avail. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean View Guarantee · 182 sqft | YO | Enquire → | ||
| Ocean View · 182 sqft | 2N Ocean View (2N) | Enquire → | ||
| 1N Ocean View (1N) | Enquire → | |||
| Spacious Ocean View · 214 sqft | 4M Ocean View (4M) | Enquire → | ||
| 3M Ocean View (3M) | Enquire → | |||
| Studio Interior · 101 sqft | 2W | Enquire → |
Ocean View Guarantee · 182 sqft
YO
Ocean View · 182 sqft
2N Ocean View (2N)
Ocean View · 182 sqft
1N Ocean View (1N)
Spacious Ocean View · 214 sqft
4M Ocean View (4M)
Spacious Ocean View · 214 sqft
3M Ocean View (3M)
Studio Interior · 101 sqft
2W
Balcony
| Cabin | Grade | Per Person | Avail. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean View Balcony Guarantee · 242–253 sqft | XB | Enquire → | ||
| Obstructed Ocean View Balcony · 253 sqft | 2E Obstructed Ocean View Balcony (2E) | Enquire → | ||
| 1E Obstructed Ocean View Balcony (1E) | Enquire → | |||
| Connecting Ocean View Balcony · 253 sqft | CB Connecting Balcony | Enquire → | ||
| Ocean View Balcony · 253 sqft | 4D Ocean View Balcony (4D) | Enquire → | ||
| 2D Ocean View Balcony (2D) | Enquire → | |||
| 3D Ocean View Balcony (3D) | Enquire → | |||
| 5D Ocean View Balcony (5D) | Enquire → | |||
| 1D Ocean View Balcony (1D) | Enquire → | |||
| Ocean View with Large Balcony · 242 sqft | 2C Ocean View with Large Balcony (2C) | Enquire → | ||
| 4C Ocean View with Large Balcony (4C) | Enquire → | |||
| 1C Ocean View with Large Balcony (1C) | Enquire → | |||
| 3C Ocean View with Large Balcony (3C) | Enquire → | |||
| Studio Ocean View Balcony · 174 sqft | 2F | Enquire → |
Ocean View Balcony Guarantee · 242–253 sqft
XB
Obstructed Ocean View Balcony · 253 sqft
2E Obstructed Ocean View Balcony (2E)
Obstructed Ocean View Balcony · 253 sqft
1E Obstructed Ocean View Balcony (1E)
Connecting Ocean View Balcony · 253 sqft
CB Connecting Balcony
Ocean View Balcony · 253 sqft
4D Ocean View Balcony (4D)
Ocean View Balcony · 253 sqft
2D Ocean View Balcony (2D)
Ocean View Balcony · 253 sqft
3D Ocean View Balcony (3D)
Ocean View Balcony · 253 sqft
5D Ocean View Balcony (5D)
Ocean View Balcony · 253 sqft
1D Ocean View Balcony (1D)
Ocean View with Large Balcony · 242 sqft
2C Ocean View with Large Balcony (2C)
Ocean View with Large Balcony · 242 sqft
4C Ocean View with Large Balcony (4C)
Ocean View with Large Balcony · 242 sqft
1C Ocean View with Large Balcony (1C)
Ocean View with Large Balcony · 242 sqft
3C Ocean View with Large Balcony (3C)
Studio Ocean View Balcony · 174 sqft
2F
Suite
| Cabin | Grade | Per Person | Avail. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deluxe Stateroom Guarantee | WS | Enquire → | ||
| Junior Suite · 331 sqft | J4 | Enquire → | ||
| J1 Junior Suite with Large Balcony | Enquire → | |||
| Sky Balcony · 279 sqft | BY | Enquire → | ||
| Sky Junior Suite · 348 sqft | JY Sky Balcony | Enquire → | ||
| Grand Suite - 1 Bedroom · 460 sqft | GS Grand Suite (1 Bedroom) | Enquire → | ||
| Owner's Suite - 1 Bedroom · 800 sqft | OS Owner's Suite (1 Bedroom) | Enquire → | ||
| Grand Loft Suite · 856 sqft | GL | Enquire → | ||
| Ultimate Family Suite · 2978 sqft | US | Enquire → |
Deluxe Stateroom Guarantee
WS
Junior Suite · 331 sqft
J4
Junior Suite · 331 sqft
J1 Junior Suite with Large Balcony
Sky Balcony · 279 sqft
BY
Sky Junior Suite · 348 sqft
JY Sky Balcony
Grand Suite - 1 Bedroom · 460 sqft
GS Grand Suite (1 Bedroom)
Owner's Suite - 1 Bedroom · 800 sqft
OS Owner's Suite (1 Bedroom)
Grand Loft Suite · 856 sqft
GL
Ultimate Family Suite · 2978 sqft
US
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