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Departure on Emirates scheduled flights to Osaka – meals on board – overnight flight.

Arrival at Osaka Kansai airport – transfer to the hotel – dinner in a typical restaurant – after dinner, Osaka by night: a stroll with the tour leader around the Dotonbori area – overnight stay.

Breakfast at the hotel – departure by train * for Takamatsu – lunch at leisure – afternoon guided tour of Takamatsu (the Ritsurin Garden, a true landscape jewel, the Shikoku Mura open-air museum and Takamatsu Castle, to soak up the charm of feudal Japan) – dinner in a typical restaurant – evening at leisure – tour leader on hand – overnight stay.

Breakfast at the hotel – departure for Kochi – guided tour of the city (the Hirome Market -Kochi's culinary hub-, the Castle with its unusual original wooden structure, Katsurahama beach and the Makino Botanical Garden) - street-food lunch at leisure at the Hirome Market – dinner in a typical restaurant – after dinner, Kochi by night: a stroll with the tour leader – overnight stay.

Breakfast at the hotel – departure for Matsuyama – guided tour of the city (the Dogo Onsen, to bathe in the thermal waters of Japan's oldest bathhouse, and Matsuyama Castle) – lunch at leisure at the bathhouse - dinner in a typical restaurant – evening at leisure – tour leader on hand – overnight stay.

Breakfast at the hotel – departure by coach for Beppu – crossing the Pacific Ocean by ferry from Misaki to Saganoseki, a journey of 1 hour and 10 minutes, passing from the island of Shikoku to that of Kyushu – lunch at leisure - afternoon visit to some of the most important geothermal sites in the world, where you can admire Mother Nature's most bizarre creations (boiling geysers, cascades of steam, blood-red lakes and the Umi Jigoku, a beautiful cobalt-blue pool and the most famous of them all) – lunch at leisure – dinner and overnight stay in a ryokan – evening at leisure – tour leader on hand.

Breakfast at the hotel – departure for Kagoshima – lunch at leisure – afternoon guided tour of the city (set on the bay of the same name just 4 km from an active volcano, with magnificent views of Mount Sakurajima and the Kirishima mountains: the Senganen Garden and Shiroyama Park -the place that inspired the film The Last Samurai-) - dinner at the hotel/restaurant – evening at leisure – tour leader on hand – overnight stay.

Breakfast at the hotel – departure for Nagasaki – street-food lunch at leisure in Chinatown - afternoon guided tour of the city (the Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Museum, the Suwa Shrine with its panoramic view, Dejima) - dinner at the hotel/typical restaurant – after dinner, Nagasaki by night: a stroll with the tour leader – overnight stay.

Breakfast at the hotel – full-day excursion to the nearby Shimabara peninsula - visit to Unzen Jigoku, the “hell of Unzen”, a volcanic area in Nagasaki prefecture noted for its intense geothermal activity, rich in hot springs, fumaroles and pools of bubbling mud, with an evocative landscape that changes colour with the seasons - the area is also linked to the persecution of the Christian martyrs in Japan in the Middle Ages - street-food lunch at leisure near Shimabara station - visit to the imposing castle, symbol of the town, and to the characteristic Buke Yashiki, the old samurai residences in a perfectly preserved district that will let us immerse ourselves in the everyday atmosphere of the period – dinner at the hotel/typical restaurant – evening at leisure – tour leader on hand – overnight stay.

Breakfast at the hotel – departure for Fukuoka – guided tour of the city (Momochi Seaside Park and ascent of the Fukuoka Tower, Ohori Park, the Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, the old town of Fukuoka) – street-food lunch at leisure in Dazaifu - dinner at the hotel – evening at leisure – tour leader on hand – overnight stay.

Breakfast at the hotel – departure by Shinkansen high-speed train in reserved seats for Osaka - guided tour of Osaka: the Castle and the Umeda Sky Building (the northern quarter in the Kita district, with the largest underground shopping centre in all Japan and an impressive concentration of offices, banks and hotels. The “Floating Garden” Observatory, 173 m up, offers a breathtaking view over the city), visit to the Tennoji Temple and the Shinsekai district - street-food lunch at leisure in Dotonbori - dinner in a typical restaurant – return to the hotel – overnight stay.

Breakfast at the hotel – day at leisure – tour leader on hand - lunch at leisure – transfer to the airport – dinner at leisure - departure from Osaka on Emirates scheduled flights back to Italy – overnight flight.

Arrival in Italy.