Information about some of your tour destinations

Hiroshima
After the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, it has become the spiritual centre of the peace movement to ban nuclear weapons. The Peace Memorial Park is located here and is dedicated to those killed by the bomb. The Atomic Bomb Dome is the ruin of the only building to survive the blast and this can be visited by the public .

Kumamoto
Kumamoto is home to Mount Aso, an active volcano, that has a caldera that measures at over 100 kilometres in circumference making it one of the largest volcanos on Earth. Within its massive crater stands several other volcanic peaks. For this reason Kumamoto has been nicknamed 'Hi no Kuni' which translates as 'Fire Country'. The soil is rich and fertile and allows wildflowers to take root. During the spring and summer, the hillsides come alive with orchids, lillies, bellflowers and hundreds of different species of plant life.

Kagoshima
Nicknamed the 'Naples of Japan' for its bay location, hot climate and impressive volcano (composite volcano). The Amuran Ferries Wheel, located on top of the Amu Plaza, gives a stunning view of the city and the volcano across the bay. The Wheel has 36 gondolas of which 2 are completely transparent which allows for a 360 degree view from about 90 metres up from the ground.

Okinawa
Okinawa composes of nearly 150 individual islands spanning about 350 miles of ocean. Due to it's location, Okinawa has had a completely seperate history from the rest of Japan where in the 15th century it was its own kingdom known as Ryuku. In 1609 it became Chinese terrortory following several invasions and finally intergrated into Japan in 1879 at which time the name was changed to Okinawa.

Kyoto
Kyoto is one of Japan's largest cities and an important cultural and spiritual centre. It was Japan's Capital City in 794 but lost that title to Tokyo in 1868. Kyoto has often been reffered to Saiko (western capital). As Kyoto was generally spared from bombings during World War II, it is one of the best preseved cities in Japan with 1600 Buddhist Temples and 400 Shinto Shrines as well as a number of palaces and gardens.

Fukuoka
Fukuoka is counted as one of Japans oldest cities and this is reflected in the traditional cuisines and the surrounding of the area. Fukuoka is surrounded by 3 mountains and a sea, with its nature still intacted. With all this nature it is still only a short trip away from the urban centres of Fukuoka City and Kitakyushu City.

Nagasaki
Nagasaki is a city in southwest Japan, a focal point of European influence during colonial times and the site of the second atomic bomb dropping in history. Under the national isolation policy of the Tokugawa shogunate, Nagasaki harbor was the only harbor to which entry of foreign ships was permitted. Today you can still see the influences of the Chinese, Dutch and Portuguese through certains cuisines and buildings (E.g Nagasaki Castella, Chanpon and Shippoku).

Beppu
Beppu is famous for it's thousands of onsen which are regarded as sacred, and has the highest volume of hot water in the world aside from Yellowstone. Beppu, like many other cities, is surrounded by mountains and sea which give a beatuifully picturesque scene.

Kotohira
Kotohira is a town located in Nakatado District, Kagawa, Japan. This town is best known for the Kotohira shrine, also known as the Kompira-san, and the Kabuki Playhouse (Japanese theatre). Kompira-san is located on the side of Mount Zōzu, named because it resembles an elephants head (Zōzu), and has 785 steps to the main shrine and a total of 1,368 steps to the inner shrine.