

Immerse yourself in the natural beauty, rich culture and local traditions of Japan with Norwegian. From beautiful expansive beaches, to vibrant art districts and historic temples, Busan is as diverse as it is enchanting and is awaiting your discovery.
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Yokohama is often called the Garden City, though its name actually means "City by the Bay." Its waterfront area provides a port to the rest of the world as well as beautiful beaches. The waterfront district has unique arts galleries and boutiques and one of the largest Chinatown areas in Japan. Yokohama is the home of Japan's Central Baseball League and Japan's first coffee shop. There is even an indoor beach with sand and water and waves! The second largest city in Japan, Yokohama is home to 3 million people and is a growing, innovative business center. Its large, accessible port has made it Japan's largest international trading center. It certainly maintains its own identity and does not fall into the shadow of Tokyo, a mere 18.6 miles (30 kilometers) from Tokyo.
Situated in the Chubu region in the middle of Japan, Nagoya has long been a junction between eastern and western Japan. Today, it is a dynamic and growing metropolitan area possessing an increasingly cosmopolitan outlook. With a population of just over 2 million set in the city's 326 square kilometers. Nagoya possesses an easy pace of life and broad avenues. It is distinctive from other major metropolitan areas in Japan, and is one of the country's most livable and affluent areas. Its central location offers convenient access to destinations around Japan, and its modern and efficient transportation network is easy to navigate. While the city is regarded today as a center of business and industry, in fact there are several spots in and around Nagoya that offer a unique opportunity to experience all that Japan has to offer. Close to both the mountains and the sea, there are a wealth of scenic attractions for outdoor enthusiasts. Historically important, virtually every period of Japan's colorful history over the last 2000 years is reflected, in the form of relics, ruins and sites, within or around the city. The long tradition of artisan excellence has resulted in a number of distinctive craft centers. It has also spawned the manufacturing tradition that has made the region famous today. Culturally, a variety of festivals and food evince the passing of the seasons, traditional culture and historical events. There is a wide selection of excellent local cuisine to sample, but Nagoya also offers visitors a number of restaurants and bars that cater to the tastes of a variety of nationalities. Nagoya has an incredible selection of dining and night life entertainment from which to choose.
Kochi Prefecture, on Japan’s Shikoku Island, is a largely rural area known for its mountains, rivers and Pacific beaches. Capital Kochi City has one of Japan’s best preserved feudal castles, Kochi-jo, established in the 1600s. The city's centuries-old Sunday market has hundreds of vendors selling food and other wares. Summer's Yosakoi Matsuri is a festival in which colorfully attired dance teams fill the streets.
Kagoshima is a bright sunny tropical city. Tourists can see smoke coming from the magnificent Mt. Sakurajima across Kinko Bay. The city has been known as the Naples of the Orient for many years. It prospered as a castle town of the powerful Lord Shimazu, who had 770 thousand "koku" of rice during the Edo Period. The city still maintains the strong spirit of Takamori Saigo and Toshimichi Okubo, heroes of the Meiji Restoration. The most famous historical spot related to them is the extensive Iso Garden, former villa of Lord Shimazu. The garden´s pond is representative of Kinko Bay, which is north of downtown, and the hill is representative of Mt. Sakurajima. Sightseeing spots in the city are mostly related to Lord Shimazu and Takamori Saigo. Tsurumaru Castle (Reimei Hall), where Lord Shimazu lived, the great view from Shiroyama, where the last fort of the Saigo army was located during the Satsuma Rebellion, Nanshu Cavern, where Saigo barricaded himself, Nanshu Cemetery, where the dead from the Satsuma Rebellion are buried, and the high-tech Museum of the Meiji Restoration (Ishin Furusato-kan) are located along the Kotsuki River. The museum has information about places where Saigo, Okubo, Iwao Oyama, and Heihachiro Togo were born. Tenmonkan in the downtown area offers all types of souvenirs, including Kagoshima dishes such as sakezushi, pork bone, and kibinago, as well as shochu, Kagoshima Ramen, Satsumayaki, satsumaage, and karukan.
Busan/Pusan is Korea's second largest city. Tourists often come to this region to hike and to visit the Buddhist Temples located deep within the region's mountains. The Beomeosa Temple, founded in 678 AD, is perhaps one of the most frequented temples in the area and is always packed with worshipers and tourists. For art buffs, Busan offers several museums and historical buildings. If scenery is your thing, try visiting the Dongbaek Island, or bird watch at the Nakdong river estuary.
Nagasaki is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture located at the south-western coast of Kyushu. Nagasaki lies at the head of a long bay which forms the best natural harbor on the southern Japanese home island of Kyushu. The main commercial and residential area of the city lies on a small plain near the end of the bay. Two rivers divided by a mountain spur form the two main valleys in which the city lies. The heavily built-up area of the city is confined by the terrain to less than 4 square miles out of a total of about 35 square miles in the city as a whole. The city was rebuilt after the war, albeit dramatically changed, as any city would be after such colossal damage. New temples were built and new churches as well, since the Christian presence never died out and even increased dramatically after the war. Some of the rubble was left as a memorial, such as a one-legged torii gate and a stone arch near ground zero. New structures were also raised as memorials, such as the Atomic Bomb Museum. Nagasaki remains first and foremost a port city, supporting a rich shipping industry and setting a strong example of perseverance and peace.
Kobe lies on the south coast of southwestern Honshu Island, on Osaka Bay, near the city of Osaka. Behind the narrow coastal site of the city are mountains on which suburban residences and hotels have been built. Hyogo, which is now part of Kobe, had for centuries been a major Japanese port trading with China and Korea and benefited in the 1860s, when Japan was re-opened to foreign trade. Since the 1890s several adjoining cities, including Hyogo, have been absorbed by Kobe. Following the 1995 earthquake tragedy, Kobe Phoenix Plaza became a help centre and now features a collection of photographs that reveal the devastating force of the earthquake . Kitano-cho is Kobe’s former foreigner’s quarter and features restored buildings now used as museums. boutiques and restaurants. The district has a synagogue, a mosque, and a Russian Orthodox cathedral. Meriken Park houses the Maritime Museum and nearby Kobe Tower. The city has Christian churches, Shinto and Buddhist temples and shrines, two famous statues of Buddha, a fine arts museum, and a municipal museum with a collection on Western cultural contact. Nearby is the city of Himeji and the stunning Himeji Castle (Shirasagi-jo), begun in the 14th century and now designated a National Treasure of Japan and UNESCO World Heritage Site. From here tourists can also visit Osaka, Kyoto, Nara and Sorakuen Garden.
Kobe lies on the south coast of southwestern Honshu Island, on Osaka Bay, near the city of Osaka. Behind the narrow coastal site of the city are mountains on which suburban residences and hotels have been built. Hyogo, which is now part of Kobe, had for centuries been a major Japanese port trading with China and Korea and benefited in the 1860s, when Japan was re-opened to foreign trade. Since the 1890s several adjoining cities, including Hyogo, have been absorbed by Kobe. Following the 1995 earthquake tragedy, Kobe Phoenix Plaza became a help centre and now features a collection of photographs that reveal the devastating force of the earthquake . Kitano-cho is Kobe’s former foreigner’s quarter and features restored buildings now used as museums. boutiques and restaurants. The district has a synagogue, a mosque, and a Russian Orthodox cathedral. Meriken Park houses the Maritime Museum and nearby Kobe Tower. The city has Christian churches, Shinto and Buddhist temples and shrines, two famous statues of Buddha, a fine arts museum, and a municipal museum with a collection on Western cultural contact. Nearby is the city of Himeji and the stunning Himeji Castle (Shirasagi-jo), begun in the 14th century and now designated a National Treasure of Japan and UNESCO World Heritage Site. From here tourists can also visit Osaka, Kyoto, Nara and Sorakuen Garden.
Blessed with a mild climate throughout the year, Shimizu is known for producing mandarin oranges, tea, and strawberries. On the coast, there is a pine-tree grove on a sand spit called Miho no Matsubara and which is often mentioned in legends. From the small mountain called Nihondaira tourists can enjoy a superb view of Mt. Fuji and the light-filled city at night. Picking strawberries during the winter and spring months is a popular pastime.
Describing Tokyo to someone who has never been here is a formidable task. After all, how do you describe a city that--as one of my friends visiting Tokyo for the first time put it--seems like it's part of another planet? To be sure, Tokyo is very different from Western capitals, but what really sets it apart is its people. Approximately 12 million people reside within Tokyo's 1,200,000,000 sq. km (800 sq. miles), and almost one-fourth of Japan's total population lives within commuting distance of the city. This translates into a crush of humanity that packs the subways, crowds the sidewalks, and fills the department stores beyond belief. In some parts of the city, the streets are as crowded at 3am as they are at 3pm. With its high-energy, visual overload, Tokyo makes even New York seem like a sleepy, laid-back town. And yet, despite its limited space for harmonious living, Tokyo remains one of the safest cities in the world, with remarkably little crime or violence. No matter how lost I may become, I know that people will go out of their way to help me. Hardworking, honest, and helpful to strangers, the Japanese are their country's greatest asset. With Tokyo so densely packed, it comes as no shock to learn that land here is more valuable than gold and that buildings are built practically on top of each other, shaped like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle to fit the existing plots of real estate. More than perhaps any other city in the world, Japan's capital is a concrete jungle, with a few parks but not many trees to break the monotony, and it stretches on and on as far as the eye can see. Fires, earthquakes, wars, the zeal for modernization, and the price of land have taken their toll on the city, eradicating almost all evidence of previous centuries. It's as though Tokyo was born only this morning, with all the messy aftermath of a city conceived without plan and interested only in the future. Thus, first-time visitors to Tokyo are almost invariably disappointed. They come expecting an exotic Asian city, but instead find a megalopolis Westernized to the point of drabness. Used to the grand edifices and monuments of Western cities, they look in vain for Tokyo's own monuments to its past--ancient temples, exquisite gardens, imperial palaces, or whatever else they've imagined. Instead they find what may be, quite arguably, one of the ugliest cities in the world. So, while Tokyo is one of my favorite cities, it's an appreciation that came only with time. When I first moved here, I was tormented by the unsettling feeling that I was somehow missing out on the "real" Tokyo. Even though I was living and working here, Tokyo seemed beyond my grasp, elusive, vague, and undefined. I felt that the meaning of the city was out there somewhere, if only I knew where to look. With time, I finally learned that I needn't look farther than my own front window. Tokyo has no center, but rather is made up of a series of small towns and neighborhoods clustered together, each with its own history, flavor, and atmosphere. There are narrow residential streets, ma-and-pa shops, fruit stands, and stores. There's the neighborhood tofu factory, the lunch-box stand, grocery shop, and the tiny police station, where the cops know the residents by name and patrol the area by bicycle. There are carefully pruned bonsai trees gracing sidewalks, women in kimono bowing and shuffling down streets, and wooden homes on impossibly narrow streets. Walk in the old downtown neighborhoods of Asakusa or Yanaka and you're worlds apart from the trendy quarters of Harajuku or the high-rises of Shinjuku. Neighborhoods like these make Tokyo lovable and livable. What's more, once visitors get to know Tokyo better, they learn that you can't judge Tokyo by what it looks like on the outside, for this is a city of interiors. Even those concrete monsters may house interiors that are fascinating in design and innovation. In the basement of that drab building could well be a restaurant with wooden beams, mud walls, and thatched ceiling, imported intact from a farmhouse in the Japan Alps; on its roof could be a small Shinto shrine, while the top floor could house a high-tech bar or a sophisticated French restaurant. And beneath Tokyo's concrete shell is a thriving cultural life left very much intact. In fact, if you're interested in Japan's performing arts as well as such diverse activities as the tea ceremony or sumo, Tokyo is your best bet for offering the most at any one time. Tokyo is also rich in museums and claims the largest repository of Japanese art in the world. It also gets my vote as the pop-art capital of the world; if you're into kitsch, you'll be in high heaven. I can't imagine being bored here, even for just a minute.
Norwegian Jewel is like a giant, floating luxury resort with swimming pools, hot tubs, a health spa, casino, plus much more to customize your vacation. Sixteen dining options, including 24-hour room service, and 13 bars and lounges.
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Azura: Balancing classic favorites with the hottest new dishes, Azura is a can't miss culinary experience. With daily changing menus offering even more variety and Chef's Signature Dishes featuring deliciously fresh ingredients, there's always something to look forward to inside this Main Dining Room.
Tsar's Palace: Inspired by the grand palaces of Russia, Tsar's Palace offers beautifully crafted contemporary and traditional dishes prepared with only the freshest ingredients. Plus, with Chef's Signature Dishes and a Chocoholic Night available once per sailing featuring specialty chocolate-based desserts, this Main Dining Room guarantees an amazing foodie experience.
Cagney's Steakhouse
Atrium Café & Bar: For that yummy frozen, double-whipped coffee treat, the Java Café is at your service with a wide variety of specialty coffees, tea's, pastries and cookies. This restaurant is available for an additional cost.
Cagney's Steakhouse: Steak is the standard at Norwegian's American-style steakhouse. Sip your favorite cocktail as you select from choice cuts of Certified Angus Beef® perfectly prepared. And don’t forget to order Cagney's famous truffle fries. This restaurant is available for an additional cost.
La Cucina: Traditional, tasty and molto italiano. Enjoy pasta with a choice of savory sauces in a casual atmosphere. There are also crispy, fresh salads, pizza, authentic Italian desserts, a fine wine list and espresso drinks to top off the meal. This restaurant is available for an additional cost.
Le Bistro: Le Bistro is an ode to all things French. From the art nouveau décor and artwork to the menu which is filled with modern classical and contemporary French gourmet fare. This restaurant is available for an additional cost.
Moderno Churrascaria: If you're looking for a unique experience, Norwewgian's authentic Brazilian steakhouse is a must. Start with an impressive salad bar of imported cheeses, olives, cured meats, ceviche and specialty salads. Be sure to save room for the delicious skewers of slow-roasted meats including beef, pork, lamb and chicken – all carved tableside by Norwegian's Pasadores. This restaurant is available for an additional cost.
Sushi: In the mood for sushi? Take a seat at this contemporary sushi bar for some traditional Japanese culinary bites. This restaurant is available for an additional cost.
Teppanyaki: Flying shrimp. Onion volcanoes. Twirling knives. The sizzles and surprises never cease at Norwegian's authentic Japanese Hibachi restaurant. Sit around a lively shared table as a skillful chef slices, chops and grills steak, seafood and chicken on a large steel grill right before your eyes. Teppenyaki's chilled, sake-infused Wasabi Cocktail will have you flipping too. This restaurant is available for an additional cost.
Chin Chin
Chin Chin: Enjoy a complimentary Asian restaurant featuring freshly prepared noodles, delicious wok fried dishes, authentic soups and more.
Garden Café: Whatever you're craving, chances are you will find it at the Garden Café. This complimentary, indoor buffet restaurant serves up breakfast, lunch and dinner.
O'Sheehan's Bar & Grill: Dine on Irish pub classics while sipping your favorite draft beer, all in a casual atmosphere open 24-hours a day. There's no charge to dig into your favorite comfort foods such as Shepherd's Pie or Fish n' Chips or throw some darts while taking in a sports game.
Sky High Bar & Grill: Enjoy your grilled favorites like hot dogs, hamburgers and bratwurst at the casual Sky High Bar.
The Great Outdoors: Outdoor buffet featuring prepared-to-cook omelets, waffles, fruit, soups, ethnic specialties and pasta.
Topsiders Bar & Grill: Enjoy casual dining to suit every taste. From grilled burgers to hot dogs, come as you are and eat as you like after a night out or before your day begins.
Room Service: If you can't come to the restaurant, Norwegian will bring the restaurant to you. Norwegian offers a menu of items that can be delivered to your stateroom. Room service is available 24-hours a day (a convenience charge applies to each order placed).
Staterooms feature modern design and can accommodate up to four guests.
Category: IA
Accommodates: 2-4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 138-278
Category: IB
Accommodates: 2-4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 138-278
Category: IF
Accommodates: 2-4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 138-278
Category: IX
Accommodates: 4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 143
Category: I4
Accommodates: 4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 138-278
Staterooms feature either a picture window or porthole.
Category: OA
Accommodates: 2-3, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 138-161
Category: OB
Accommodates: 2-3, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 138-161
Category: OF
Accommodates 2-4, total approximate size 140 - 161 sq. ft
Category: OK
Accommodates: 2-4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 161-183
Category: OX
Accommodates: 4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 155
Category: O4
Accommodates: 4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 155-161
Spacious staterooms feature a private balcony with floor-to-ceiling sliding-glass doors and a sitting area.
Category: B1
Accommodates: 3-4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 205, balcony size (in sq. ft): 38
Category: BX
Accommodates: 3, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 200, balcony size (in sq. ft): 38
Category: BA
Accommodates: 2-3, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 200-289, balcony size (in sq. ft): 38-54
Category: BF
Accommodates: 2-3, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 200-289, balcony size (in sq. ft): 38-54
Category: B4
Accommodates: 4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 205, balcony size (in sq. ft): 38
Spacious suites and mini-suites feature private balcony and bath with shower. Suites feature butler and concierge service.
Category: M1
Accommodates 4, total approximate size 272 - 416 sq. ft, balcony size 54 - 81 sq. ft
Category: MA
Accommodates: 2-4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 272-285, balcony size (in sq. ft): 54
Category: MB
Accommodates: 2-4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 272-285, balcony size (in sq. ft): 54
Category: MX
Accommodates: 4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 285, balcony size (in sq. ft): 54
Category: SF
Accommodates: 3-4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 489-578, balcony size (in sq. ft): 208-284
Category: S4
Accommodates: 6, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 544-546, balcony size (in sq. ft): 54
Category: SN
Accommodates: 3, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 334-352, balcony size (in sq. ft): 54-65
Category: SM
Accommodates: 3, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 375-387, balcony size (in sq. ft): 88-100
Category: SD
Accommodates: 4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 501, balcony size (in sq. ft): 144
Category: H1
Accommodates: 8, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 4891, balcony size (in sq. ft): 2314
Category: H2
Accommodates: 4, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 1197, balcony size (in sq. ft): 567
Category: H3
Accommodates 4, total approximate size 824 sq. ft, balcony size 151 sq. ft
Category: H4
Accommodates 4, total approximate size 791 sq. ft, balcony size 248 sq. ft
Category: H6
Accommodates: 6, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 572, balcony size (in sq. ft): 85
Category: HF
Accommodates: 3, total approximate size (in sq. ft): 440, balcony size (in sq. ft): 60
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![]() | Stateroom with facilities for the disabled |
![]() | Connecting staterooms |
![]() | Third person occupancy available |
![]() | Third and/or fourth person occupancy available |
![]() | Third, fourth and/or fifth person occupancy available |
![]() | Up to sixth person occupancy available |
![]() | Elevator |
![]() | Restroom |
![]() | PrivaSea (partially enclosed balcony) |
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Ship's registry: The Bahamas
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