September 11, 2027 – October 6, 2027 · 24 nights · 14 stops
Explora's name for it: A Grand Journey from Rainforest Peaks to Japan’s Scenic Coastal Vistas
The itinerary, port by port
14 calls over 24 nights, Vancouver to Tokyo. Open any port for my full day-ashore guide, what to see, when to go, and how the day actually runs.
Getting there: Flights to Vancouver (YVR) open around October 2026, about 11 months before you sail. I track that window for booked clients and flag it the moment it is worth booking. When to book your flights →
Vancouver is the embarkation city for most Alaska sailings, a coastal Canadian metropolis pinned between the harbor and the Coast Mountains, with a forested 1,000-acre park at its tip. Port guide →
Ketchikan is Alaska's southernmost cruise town, a steep fishing port wedged between the Tongass rainforest and the Inside Passage on Revillagigedo Island. Port guide →
Sitka sits on the outer coast of Baranof Island, the only Southeast Alaska town that faces the open Pacific rather than the Inside Passage, and it was the capital of Russian America before the 1867 Alaska… Port guide →
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Sailing the Hubbard Glacier
Hubbard is the largest tidewater glacier in North America, a 76-mile river of ice that meets the sea at the head of Disenchantment Bay near Yakutat.
Seward sits at the head of Resurrection Bay on the Kenai Peninsula and is the gateway port to Kenai Fjords National Park, where tidewater glaciers calve into the sea and humpbacks, orcas, sea otters and… Port guide →
Kushiro is a working fishing and port city on the misty southeast coast of Hokkaido, and the reason ships call is the country beyond it: Kushiro Shitsugen, Japan's largest marshland, and the red-crowned… Port guide →
Aomori sits at the northern tip of Japan's main island of Honshu, a working bayfront city whose cruise wharf opens directly onto its waterfront attractions. Port guide →
A cruise call on Tokyo lands you on Odaiba, a reclaimed island in Tokyo Bay that is itself a waterfront entertainment and shopping district, with the Rainbow Bridge and the city skyline directly across the… Port guide →
Kobe is a compact, cosmopolitan port city wedged between the sea and the Rokko mountains, opened to foreign trade in 1868 and still wearing that history in its Chinatown and hillside foreign quarter. Port guide →
Kochi is the historic spice port of Kerala on India's southwest coast, where Portuguese, Dutch, Arab, Chinese, and Jewish trading layers all left something standing. Port guide →
Busan is South Korea's second city and busiest port, a coastal sprawl of beaches, mountain temples, seafood markets, and a hillside village painted every color. Port guide →
Nagasaki spent two centuries as Japan's only window to the West, and the result is a port city where a Chinese quarter, a Dutch trading post, and hillside Western mansions sit within a few tram stops of… Port guide →
Kagoshima sits at the foot of Kinko Bay staring across at Sakurajima, one of the world's most active volcanoes, which still dusts the city with ash on most days. Port guide →
Fares on this departure, decoded
Reading the fare fine print is the job. Here's what this sailing currently carries:
Invitation to Discover More
Explora's discovery fare, available across most of the calendar. Onboard credit where the offer applies.
Founders Fare
A founding-era fare on a selected set of sailings. Onboard credit where the offer applies.
The ship and your suite
This sailing is aboard EXPLORA III, all-suite,
every suite with a private ocean-front terrace. Suites run from the entry Ocean Terrace to the Owner's
Residence; the right tier depends on how you travel.
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Send me the dates and the suite tier you have in mind and I'll come back with a confirmed live number and my read on the sailing within two hours. Best available price, and I make it worth more.