Aug 31, 2026 · 30 min · 10 segments
If Japan has been on your travel bucket list – the ancient temples, the bustling city streets, the cherry blossoms, the food – then this episode is going to move that trip from “someday” to “I’m…
And so we've talked about Azamar before, but I think it bears mentioning that this is not a cruise in the sense of, you know, I'm going on a Caribbean cruise and I'm going to have water slides and rock climbing walls and all that we love those cruises those cruises are great but this is really truly more of a floating hotel um it is a smaller ship um an older ship none of those like bells and whistles no water slides there is a pool no water slides no um no kids club nothing like that it is definitely geared to being a floating boutique hotel It's a way to see us a lot without having to unpack a lot.
Right.
Well, and that's the point of sailing like this is you're there for the destination.
You're not there for the ship per se.
You're there for these amazing ports that we're stopping into.
Correct.
Yep.
And I think that that's another thing that people think, oh, well, when I go to Japan, I want to do a land tour because I want to do the bullet train and I want to, you know, there are these things that they feel like they need to do, climb up Mount Fuji or whatever.
Yes, those are great things to do, but you can actually take a bullet train on this itinerary.
Like you could, you can make that happen.
So if that's something that's really important to you, that's great.
But then there's the fact that many hotels and accommodations in Japan are much smaller and And so for a larger person like myself, that could be very uncomfortable.
So this allows you to see so much more and go way north in Japan as well, which also means you the cherry blossom season is happening a little bit later there.
Right.
Yeah.
Plus, you're not hotel hopping hotel to hotel.
Right.
You unpack that one time and you get to see lots of amazing places.
So that's I think that's really, really about it.
That's really top of my list because I hate.
And so we've talked about Azamar before, but I think it bears mentioning that this is not a cruise in the sense of, you know, I'm going on a Caribbean cruise and I'm going to have water slides and rock climbing walls and all that we love those cruises those cruises are great but this is really truly more of a floating hotel um it is a smaller ship um an older ship none of those like bells and whistles no water slides there is a pool no water slides no um no kids club nothing like that it is definitely geared to being a floating boutique hotel It's a way to see us a lot without having to unpack a lot.
Right.
Well, and that's the point of sailing like this is you're there for the destination.
You're not there for the ship per se.
You're there for these amazing ports that we're stopping into.
Correct.
Yep.
And I think that that's another thing that people think, oh, well, when I go to Japan, I want to do a land tour because I want to do the bullet train and I want to, you know, there are these things that they feel like they need to do, climb up Mount Fuji or whatever.
Yes, those are great things to do, but you can actually take a bullet train on this itinerary.
Like you could, you can make that happen.
So if that's something that's really important to you, that's great.
But then there's the fact that many hotels and accommodations in Japan are much smaller and And so for a larger person like myself, that could be very uncomfortable.
So this allows you to see so much more and go way north in Japan as well, which also means you the cherry blossom season is happening a little bit later there.
Right.
Yeah.
Plus, you're not hotel hopping hotel to hotel.
Right.
You unpack that one time and you get to see lots of amazing places.
So that's I think that's really, really about it.
That's really top of my list because I hate.
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