7 nights · Summer 2027
Kyushu in summer: Yufuin, a day train round the coast, and the Seven Stars to Unzen
A trip built around the Seven Stars in Kyushu, JR Kyushu's cruise train, on its summer journey to the hot springs of Unzen. Before it come two nights in the hills above Yufuin, a Sunday on the 36+3 day train back to Fukuoka, and two nights in the city.
- Nights
- 7
- Stays
- 2
- When
- Summer 2027
Japan
We build it around you
Tell us your dates, your pace and who is travelling. We draw the route around them, choose the inns and rooms, arrange the trains and cars between each stay, and stay one point of contact from the first plan to the last night. Every stay at its own rate.
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1 · 2 nightsEnowa YufuinNineteen rooms on the hillside above Yufuin, each with its own hot-spring bath, for the tasting menu from its own farm and the view of Mount Yufu, about 90 minutes by car from Fukuoka airport; on the Sunday morning the Kyudai line reaches Oita in about an hour.
2 · Day trainTakeshi Aida, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons36+3The Sunday Blue route leaves Oita at 10:48 and, by Beppu, Kitsuki and 80 minutes in the restored station at Mojiko, reaches Hakata at 16:41.
3 · 2 nightsThe Ritz-Carlton, FukuokaAt the top of a tower in Daimyo, a walk from Tenjin, for the city's sushi counters and food stalls; Hakata station, where the Seven Stars leaves on the Tuesday, is about 15 minutes by car.
4 · Cruise trainSeven Stars in KyushuThe three-night Unzen Journey goes by the kasuri indigo workshops of Kurume, Yufuin and the rim of the Aso caldera, crosses by ferry to Shimabara for a night at Ryotei Hanzuiryo in Unzen Onsen, and returns to Hakata on the Friday; Fukuoka airport is two stops from Hakata on the subway.
Make it yours
This is one way to do it. We change the stays, their order and the nights in each to suit you, move it to the season you want, and plan the days between: the trains and cars, the restaurants worth the detour, a quieter night where the route needs one. Tell us your dates and who is travelling, and our team in Japan will draw up your own.
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