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Is there a commercial boat we can take from Japan (Kyushu) to the Philippines? |
Travel Info We`re in Kumamoto in Kyushu, Japan on the south-west end of the country. We`re hoping to get a boat to anywhere in the Philippines in the first few days in July. Does anyone know what our options are? Where do we go to get the boat if indeed there is one available and what`s the price and duration of the journey. Thanks a lot. Travel Tips Yes, take a look in the phone book for freighters that take passengers. The people who run the service will give you a schedule of ships going from Japan to the Phillippines. There will be five or six available each week (my guess). In Europe they now have long distance Ferries that go all over Europe, voyages of four to six days which is about the sailing time from Japan to the Phillipines. Some of them are Russian and they use ultra fast hydrofoil boats that do the voyages in a third of the time, but the hydrofoils won't take cars. Some of the long distance ferries don't take cars either. I don't know if the trend has taken off in Asia, but seeing a Vladisvostok is a hop skip and a jump from Japan, the Russians may have expanded their hydrofoil service to the Pacific. In fairly calm seas they travel three times faster than a ferry, and if the seas get rough, the boats just slow down and the hydrofoils act as stabalizers once they are under water. If you are in a hurry, the Russian hydrofoils are best. If you want to take something the size of a cruise ship but have cabins the size of train cabins, the ferries are best. But the freighter service always runs. You can expect about ten to twenty passengers if you take the freighters and some of them have swimming pools that they put togethor on the deck after the cargo is loaded. There is a passenger dining room and a passenger recreational room where you can play board game, card games, read or watch videos. The cabins in the freighters are fairly large, have their own bath and the food is better than what you get on the ferry system. They only proplem is that they don't have a regular schedule, you will go over on one freighter and come back on another. Others This is the top result when you google "cruise japan philippines". http://www.cruise-japan.jp/next.html... The page will show you itineraries with ports of call. Some include Philippines destinations. As to your details, I don't really know. Surf the site. Good luck. |
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