The small-ship connoisseur circuit — overnights included
Click any port for the full plan: what fits your hours, what to book, what's a walk.
The bookend capital
The turnaround city
Mt. Fuji's port
The Kyoto gateway
The Pacific port
Two heavyweights, one day
The walking port
The volcano's port
The steaming port
The Korea day
Plus Toba, Hososhima, Shimonoseki, Kushiro, Miyako, Sendai, Hitachinaka and Maizuru on select voyages.
Kobe and Nagasaki get two-day stays on the spring loops — plan them as mini-trips, not port days.
Toba and Hososhima see almost no cruise traffic — expect warm welcomes and zero crowds, and plan independently since tour inventory is thin.
The Vancouver–Tokyo positioning voyage lands via Hokkaido and Tohoku — autumn foliage from the sea.
Overnight stays (Kobe, Nagasaki, Maizuru) and small ports the large ships skip — Toba, Hososhima, Shimonoseki. The 2026 program runs spring loops from Tokyo/Yokohama, a trans-Pacific crossing from Vancouver in autumn, and a November Tokyo-to-Osaka finale.
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