Meal on Board/Lunch/Dinner

Assemble at Singapore Changi Airport for your flight to Fukuoka, a vibrant yet compact city in Western Japan and the gateway to Kyushu for many travellers. Upon arrival, proceed to visit Uminonakamichi Seaside Park, a family-oriented public park with flower gardens, playgrounds, sports fields, a water park and a zoo where one can enjoy up-close interacting with animals such as the iconic Guinea pig. Here is also a sakura viewing with 2000 cherry trees in blossom during spring time. You next stop is Daizaifu Tenmangu, a famous shrine enveloped with 6,000 plum trees and enjoy Umegaemochi tasting here.

Accommodation: Hotel Monte Hermana Fukuoka or similar

Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner

Take a morning drive to Yanagawa, a picturesque old town with white-walled storehouses along narrow stone-paved streets renowned as “the City of Water” little Venice in Kyushu. Once a castle town and now quaint and scenic. Enjoy an idyllic walk and a mesmerising canal river boat ride cruising the river that line with willow trees with boatman entertains passengers by singing songs or showing their rowing skills. Tonight, ascend the 333-metre high Mt Inasa and enjoy an aerial perspective of the spectacular night views of Nagasaki.

Accommodation: Luke Plaza Hotel or similar

Breakfast/Shimabara Guzouni Lunch / Seafood Kaiseki Dinner with Dancing Abalone

After breakfast, visit Nagasaki Peace Park, which commemorates the atomic explosion on 9th August 1945 that contributed to the end of the Pacific War.  Thereafter, take a drive to Shimabara. First stop: a jaunt to the city’s foremost attraction, Shimabara Castle which is reputed for an unusually striking castle reconstruction due to its regular, tall yet almost pyramidal, design. For lunch, tuck into a Shimabara Guzouni lunch, a shimabara signature cuisine that comprise of rice cake soup topped with vegetables and bits of meat and fish. After lunch, proceed to Kuninotsu Port for a Wild Dolphin watching cruise experience. Subject to weather conditions, wild dolphin watching is available most of the time as locations of dolphin are tracked prior to cruise ride. Thereafter, proceed to Matsushima. This evening, savour a sumptuous seafood Kaiseki dinner with dancing abalone, where a live abalone is cooked in its shell. Wrap up the day with a relaxing hotspring bath.

Accommodation: Matsushima Kanko Hotel Misakitei or similar

Breakfast/Lunch/Buffet Dinner

This morning, proceed to Kumamoto. Take a leisure drive to Kagoshima. Endowed with a chain of active and dormant volcanoes, this prefecture is renowned for its hot springs. Constructed in the 1658, Senganen was built by an influential clan in the Edo Period. Besides the original building, there is a Japanese style landscape garden with ponds, streams, shrines and bamboo grove. Catch a glimpse of the active volcano, Sakurajima Island, before you proceed to go on a shopping spree along Tenmonkan, the largest downtown shopping district in Kagoshima before rounding up the day in Kagoshima.  

Accommodation: Active & Resorts Kirishima or similar

Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner

After breakfast, proceed to Miyazaki, a honeymoon prefecture for the Japanese.  Stop-by Sekino-o Waterfalls, one of the Miyazaki’s largest and most powerful Waterall.  Then Take a tranquil stroll to Aoshima Jinja, a colorful shrine nestled in the middle of this subtropical island that is said to bring good blessings for newlyweds.  Keep a look out for the shallow waters around the island which is said to possess a geological phenomenon. Thereafter, visit Takachiho Gorge, a narrow chasm cut through the rock by the Gokase River. The nearly sheer cliffs lining the gorge are made of slow forming volcanic basalt columns which resemble the scales of a dragon where the stone twisted and flowed as it formed. Partway along the gorge is the 17-meter high Minainotaki waterfall cascading down to the river below, and it is truly impressive to see the waterfall against a backdrop of dense green foliage and the surrounding grey cliffs. Stroll along the trails to admire the waterfall against a backdrop of dense green foliage and surrounding cliffs.

Accommodation: Aso Resort Granvirio Hotel or similar

Note
Visit to Takachiho Gorge requires a 30-minute walk from the carpark entrance on uneven stone paths and steps.

Breakfast/ Yufuin Seiro Mushi Lunch/Dinner

This Morning, get ready for cuteness overload at Cuddly Dominion, a sprawling animal park which also includes a petting zoo with over 90 different animals including farm animals, dogs and many more. Do not miss the various species of bears, the park’s most popular attraction. Make a stop at Yufuin to enjoy the picturesque rural beauty of Yufuin. Your journey will, quite literally, reach a boiling point as you make a jaunt to the renowned Beppu Jigoku Meguri. Visit Umi-jigoku, a pond of boiling blue water. Not quite Dante’s inferno, but one that will leave an impression nonetheless. This evening, pamper yourself with a traditional hot spring bath at an onsen resort in Beppu.  

Accommodation: Hotel & Resorts Beppuwan or similar  

Breakfast/Dinner

On your journey back to Fukuoka, make a stop at Kitsuki Castle Town to visit rustic samurai houses. Next, enjoy a Kimono dress-up session. Thereafter, rev up and embark on a shopping spree at a new shopping and entertainment hotspot Lalaport Shopping Mall Fukuoka. With the concept of “Encounter & Experience Plaza – A town of ‘interaction’ and ‘connection'”, there are a total of 222 shops, including 57 shops opening for the first time in Kyushu, and 9 various squares, offering a variety of ways to have fun. Shopaholics will rejoice with shopping opportunity with over 100 outlets combined selling international brands, trendy items, and many more, you will definitely bag home a handful of local products!  

Accommodation: Hotel Monte Hermana Fukuoka or similar

Breakfast/Meal on Board

After breakfast, transfer to the airport for your flight home.