Samurai & Skylines – Kobe, Busan & Nagasaki

About this cruise

Somewhere around day five the ship stops being transport and starts being home. This 12-night sailing from Tokyo on July 2, 2027 visits Kobe (Osaka), Kochi, Busan, Nagasaki, Kagoshima and Shimizu. 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 11 hours, so you can do more than just tick off the main sights. As for the ship itself, Celebrity Millennium has 10 restaurants on board, which means you could eat somewhere different nearly every night. 12 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. It's peak season, so the weather is at its best and the ship will be full. That's part of the fun. Whether you've cruised before or not, this 12-night itinerary is a genuinely good one.