Samurai Shrines – Hiroshima & Jeju Island

About this cruise

This one leaves Tokyo on April 10, 2027 and spends 10 nights visiting Hiroshima, Kagoshima, Jeju Island, Sasebo and Kobe (Osaka) at a pace where every day has something going on but there's always time to just sit and watch the water too. There's a stretch of back-to-back port days, so those days are busy, but the sea days around them give you time to recharge. Karaoke bars, hot springs, and temples draped in moss. East Asia does culture and chaos in equal measure. Most ports give you about 10 hours, so you can do more than just tick off the main sights. As for the ship itself, MSC Bellissima has 9 restaurants on board, which means you could eat somewhere different nearly every night. 10 nights is long enough to build a routine on board: favourite restaurant, favourite deck chair, favourite people. It starts to feel like a floating village. A spring departure helps too: decent weather and a calmer feel at each port. You start in Tokyo and come back with stories from Japan and South Korea.