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Nagasaki Food Pilgrim: Champon, Castella & the Shippoku Table — 2 Days
Champon and sara udon in Chinatown, the city's signature specialties, and a shippoku feast
Hidden Christians: Sotome's Silence Coast & Hirado's Churches — 2 Days
Sotome's Silence coast and its churches, then Hirado's castle, spired church and the Kasuga terraces
Sasebo, Huis Ten Bosch & the Kujukushima Islands — 2 Days for Families
Sasebo burgers, sea-view lookouts and Saikai whirlpools, then a Huis Ten Bosch evening and the 99 Islands by boat
Unzen & Shimabara: Sulfur Hells, Highland Onsen & a Castle on the Springs — 2 Days
The Unzen Hells and highland onsen, then Shimabara's castle, samurai street and spring water
First-Time Nagasaki: The Harbour City & Peace — 2 Days
The foreign settlement, the harbour night view, and the city's atomic memory
The Hyuga Coast: Sea Cliffs, a Wish-Granting Cross & Chicken Nanban's Home — 2 Days
The columnar sea cliffs and glass deck of Cape Hyuga at Umagase, the wish-granting Cross Sea, and the mountain shrine and great waterfall of Mukabaki on day one; the birthplace of chicken nanban, an old railway station turned onsen inn and the southernmost ski highland in Japan on day two — two days on Miyazaki's quiet northern coast and rivers, based in Nobeoka
Aya & Ebino: A Canopy Bridge, an Evergreen Forest & Volcanic Lakes — 2 Days
The long canopy suspension bridge over Aya's virgin evergreen forest, a wooden castle keep, a shochu-and-sake brewery tasting and a flower plateau on day one; a roadside waterfall, the volcanic plateau of Ebino, the crater lake of Fudoike and the climb of Mt Karakuni on day two — two active days in Miyazaki's western highlands, based in Aya
Miyazaki City & Saito: Shrines, Saga-Beef Country & a Field of Tombs — 2 Days
The great shrine of Miyazaki, the haniwa figures of Heiwadai Park, a chicken-nanban lunch, a science centre planetarium and a dinner of charcoal jidori on day one; the largest field of ancient burial mounds in Japan and a plate of championship Miyazaki beef on day two — two food-and-history days based in the sun-country capital
Takachiho: The Mythic Gorge, the Cave of the Sun & Night Kagura — 2 Days
The column-walled gorge and Manai Falls you row a boat into, a lunch of flowing somen, the great cedar shrine and its nightly kagura on day one; the sea-of-clouds dawn from Kunimigaoka, the cave-shrine of Amano Iwato, the offering-strewn cavern of Yasugawara and a ride on the old railway on day two — two days in the mythic mountains of Takachiho
The Nichinan Coast: Aoshima, the Cliff-Cave Shrine & Wild Horses — 2 Days
The subtropical shrine-island of Aoshima and the wave-cut Devil's Washboard, the Phoenix palm road, the moai of Sun Messe and the cliff-cave shrine of Udo on day one; the samurai castle town of Obi and the wild horses of Cape Toi on day two — two days down Miyazaki's mythic Nichinan coast, based on the Aoshima shore
Miyagi's Coast: Shiogama Sushi & Ishinomaki's Cat Island — 2 Days
A working coast of sushi and cats
Naruko Onsen: Kokeshi Craft & the Healing Waters — 2 Days
Hot water and painted dolls
Zao Highlands: The Okama Crater & a Fox Village — 2 Days
A crater lake and the foothill country
Akiu & Sakunami: Sendai's Two Onsen Valleys — 2 Days
Two valleys, a thousand years of bathing
First-Time Miyagi: Sendai's Castle City & the Bay of Matsushima — 2 Days
The castle city and the bay of islands
Kumano Kodo Iseji & the Sacred Coast: Magose Pass to Onigajo — 2 Days
A cobbled pilgrim pass, a boulder lookout and the sacred Kumano coast
Matsusaka Beef & the Merchants' Town: Castle, Cotton & Katagami — 2 Days
Sukiyaki, a castle town and the crafts of cotton and paper
Iga Ninja & Castle Town: Ueno, Basho & the Crafts — 2 Days
A ninja town, a poet's birthplace and two craft workshops
Ise-Shima Pearls & Ama Divers: Toba to Ago Bay — 2 Days
Pearls, ama divers and the quiet waters of Ago Bay
First-Time Ise: The Grand Shrine Pilgrimage & Futami Coast — 2 Days
The Outer and Inner Shrines, the old pilgrim street and the Wedded Rocks
Hitoyoshi & the Kuma Valley: Shochu, a River & a Hidden Castle Town — 2 Days
A National Treasure shrine, rice shochu, the river and a rebuilding town
Amakusa Islands: Hidden Christians, Dolphins & Sunset Coasts — 2 Days
A UNESCO hidden-Christian village, wild dolphins and a sunset sea
Kurokawa Onsen & Northern Aso: Hot Springs, Waterfalls & Spring Water — 2 Days
Wooden bath-hopping, a waterfall you walk behind, and pure spring water
Mount Aso: The World's Great Caldera, Grasslands & Red Beef — 2 Days
The live crater, the grass plains, the caldera rim and Aso red beef
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