Twelve nights round trip from Singapore aboard Navigator of the Seas, calling at Hong Kong, Keelung, Nagasaki, Yatsushiro, for Kumamoto and Kagoshima. Five days at sea.
Every time on this page is ship’s time. It is set by the captain and does not always match the local clock — or your phone.
Five ports, and five days at sea. You end where you started.
Singapore is where you board and where you return. The line on the map is indicative; the course a ship actually steers is set on the day for weather and traffic.
Times are the ship’s scheduled arrival and departure and can move for weather or port traffic. All-aboard is normally 30 minutes before sailing.
Ships use either the Marina Bay Cruise Centre or the older terminal at HarbourFront, and both sit on the MRT network, so the city is a train ride rather than a taxi fare. She sails at four in the afternoon, so the first evening is aboard. Embarkation, Marina Bay Cruise Centre Singapore.
The first of five days at sea. She is running for Hong Kong. Everything on board is open and the day is yours to spend on it.
The second of five days at sea. She is running for Hong Kong. Everything on board is open and the day is yours to spend on it.
A day here goes further than most because the transport is quick. The Star Ferry across the harbour, the tram up to Victoria Peak and the escalators through Central are all short and all worth doing. Temple Street and the markets in Mong Kok are the other direction. Eat dim sum early rather than at lunch. If the ship is in at night, the harbour front at Tsim Sha Tsui is where the skyline is looked at from. Ships use either Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, built on the runway of the old airport and a taxi or bus ride from Kowloon, or Ocean Terminal at Tsim Sha Tsui, which puts you on Canton Road with the Star Ferry a few minutes away. OVERNIGHT ALONGSIDE - the ship berths this evening and does not sail until 21:00 the following day.
A day here goes further than most because the transport is quick. The Star Ferry across the harbour, the tram up to Victoria Peak and the escalators through Central are all short and all worth doing. Temple Street and the markets in Mong Kok are the other direction. Eat dim sum early rather than at lunch. If the ship is in at night, the harbour front at Tsim Sha Tsui is where the skyline is looked at from. Ships use either Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, built on the runway of the old airport and a taxi or bus ride from Kowloon, or Ocean Terminal at Tsim Sha Tsui, which puts you on Canton Road with the Star Ferry a few minutes away. Second day of the overnight Hong Kong call.
The third of five days at sea. She is running for Keelung. Everything on board is open and the day is yours to spend on it.
Most passengers head straight for Taipei: Taipei 101, the National Palace Museum and Longshan temple are the fixtures, and the museum alone can take a morning. The shorter version stays on the coast. Jiufen is a hillside town of stepped lanes and tea houses above the sea, and the eroded rock formations at Yehliu are closer still. Keelung's own night market runs by the water and is one of the better ones in the country. Ships berth in the middle of Keelung, so the harbour-front and its night market are a walk from the gangway, and Taipei is roughly 40 minutes away by road or rail. Berths at Keelung; Taipei is inland from the port.
The fourth of five days at sea. She is running for Nagasaki. Everything on board is open and the day is yours to spend on it.
Nagasaki carries two histories. It was Japan's one window on the outside world during the closed centuries, which is what Dejima, the Chinese quarter and the hillside foreign houses at Glover Garden are about. It was also the second atomic bombing, and the Peace Park and the museum above the hypocentre deal with that directly. The tram makes both reachable in one day. Mount Inasa is the evening view if the ship is in late. Ships use the Matsugae terminal on the harbour, close enough to walk to Dejima and the Oura church, with the tram running from just outside the gate. The Peace Park and museum are a tram ride from the berth and take a couple of hours if you give them the time they deserve.
Kumamoto Castle is the main reason to make the trip north: black-walled, enormous, and being rebuilt after the 2016 earthquake, which is itself much of what you go to look at. Suizenji is the garden version of a day, laid out as a miniature of the old Tokaido road. Mount Aso, an active caldera with a road up it, is the other direction and is weather-dependent. Yatsushiro itself is quiet and does not detain you. The cruise berth is at Yatsushiro, roughly 40 to 50 kilometres south of Kumamoto city, with a shuttle to the nearest station and a train onward from there. Berths at Yatsushiro; published under both Kumamoto and Yatsushiro depending on the storefront.
Sakurajima sits across the bay and steams, and the short ferry over to it is the day for most people: lava fields, viewpoints and a foot bath by the water. Ash is a normal part of life here. In town, Senganen is a formal garden laid out with the volcano borrowed as its backdrop, and the Shiroyama lookout gives the whole view at once. Further south, Ibusuki does hot sand baths on the beach. Ships berth on the city waterfront, a short taxi ride from the centre, with the ferry across to Sakurajima leaving from nearby. Sakurajima is genuinely active, and ash or an exclusion zone can close the viewpoints and the ferry at short notice.
The fifth of five days at sea. She is running for Tokyo. Everything on board is open and the day is yours to spend on it.
The cruise ends here and you disembark in the morning. The Tokyo International Cruise Terminal is at Aomi on Odaiba, on the bay rather than in the centre, with an elevated line running from beside it into the city. Disembarkation at Yokohama, not central Tokyo.
Twelve grades on this ship. The gap between the cheapest and the dearest is wider than most people expect, and so is the difference in what you get.
No window. The cheapest cabin on the ship and completely dark with the lights off, which suits some sleepers and disorients others. This is an older ship than the Quantum pair and the standard interior is smaller, so it is worth treating as somewhere to sleep and change rather than anywhere to sit.
Eighty-one interior cabins were fitted with floor-to-ceiling screens carrying a live outside camera feed during the 2019 refit, on decks nine and ten. It tells you the time of day and the weather, which is most of what an interior cabin lacks. It is a screen and it does not make the cabin any bigger.
An interior cabin with a bay window onto the Royal Promenade, the four-deck indoor street running through the ship - a genuinely unusual room, and there are a hundred and thirty-eight of them. The drawback is straightforward and worth taking seriously: parades, bands and bars run late directly below you, and the glass does not stop much of it.
A sealed picture window, generally low down and forward or aft. The cheapest way to have daylight and a horizon, and the horizon is the part that matters if anyone in the party is prone to seasickness. Some categories in this grade are partly blocked by lifeboats, so the specific cabin number matters.
Forward-facing, with a floor-to-ceiling window running almost the full width of the cabin. It is the best view on the ship without buying a suite, and there are only about two dozen. No balcony, the glass does not open, and forward is the part of the ship that pitches most in a swell.
A very large ocean-view cabin with no balcony, built to take four or more berths and sold mainly to families. It buys more floor area than any balcony grade on this ship and prices below them. The trade is straightforward - no outdoor space of any kind - and the window is sealed, as every ocean-view window here is.
Private outdoor space, and the grade most people are pleased they paid for on any sailing with sea days. Navigator's standard balconies are small by current standards - this is a 2002 hull - so the cabin is the ordinary size and the terrace is narrow. Connecting pairs are sold as their own category.
A balcony cabin with noticeably more inside floor area than the standard one, and enough berths for a family of four. On a hull of this age the extra room is the point rather than the balcony, which is the same modest size as every other balcony on board. Ask for the cabin number; the grade spans several positions.
Aft-facing, looking back down the wake, with a balcony substantially larger than the ship's standard one - the best balcony on board for the money. A Spacious version with more inside room is sold alongside it. There are few of them, and the aft of the ship is where engine vibration is most noticeable.
A suite in floor area and in name, forward-facing behind a wall of glass, with no balcony at all - which is the one thing to be certain a client has understood before booking it. The outlook is the best on the ship. Forward is also where the hull pitches most in a swell.
A larger cabin with a sitting area, a bath and a bigger balcony. It sits outside Royal Suite Class, so it comes with the floor area and none of the suite restaurant, lounge or concierge access. On this ship the step from balcony to junior suite buys space and very little else, which is worth being clear about.
Grand Suite upward, tiered by what they admit you to rather than by size: a private restaurant, a suite lounge, a concierge and priority boarding and tendering. The top rooms are genuinely large. Suites are charged the higher daily gratuity rate, and there are relatively few of them on a ship of this age.
Midship and low is the calmest ride. A ship pitches around its middle and rolls around its centreline, so the middle of the ship low down moves least. Forward and high is the worst combination.
A “guarantee” fare is a category, not a room. It saves real money and the line assigns your actual cabin whenever it likes — sometimes days before departure, sometimes with an obstructed view. Fine for a couple who do not mind. A poor choice if you are travelling with children, need a specific location, or are prone to seasickness. On some lines a family of four booked this way can be split across two cabins.
The fare you compare online rarely covers everything. Tick anything you want priced with the cruise — bought with the booking it is usually cheaper than on board, and you know the total before you go.
Singapore. Cambodian passport: NO VISA REQUIRED. Cambodia does not appear on Singapore's list of nationalities requiring an entry visa (the ICA list of 40 visa-required countries and territories). Passport must have at least 6 months validity. Australian passport: NO VISA REQUIRED. Australia does not appear on ICA's visa-required list. Passport must have at least 6 months validity.
Taiwan. Cambodian passport: Same visitor visa. Keelung Harbour IS a designated port of entry, so the visa works there - the problem is obtaining it, not using it. Australian passport: NO VISA REQUIRED, 90 days, not extendable.
Japan. Cambodian passport: TEMPORARY VISITOR (SHORT-TERM STAY) VISA REQUIRED, ARRANGED BEFORE THE SAILING. Cambodia is not among the 74 countries and regions with a visa exemption arrangement with Japan. The principle is stated in Japan's own guidance: a foreign national must hold a passport AND a visa, meet the landing conditions, and be given a status of residence. Australian passport: NO VISA REQUIRED. Disembarking in Tokyo and flying home is an ordinary short-term stay well inside 90 days.
We have not yet confirmed the position for Hong Kong SAR, China from an official source, and will do that for you before you commit.
Checked 2026-08-12. Immigration rules move, so we re-check yours when you book — and we arrange the visas ourselves.
The fares above include taxes, fees and port expenses. The line charges an automatic daily gratuity to your onboard account, and drinks, specialty dining and shore excursions are extra. We set the whole total out for you before you pay a deposit.
Many standard travel policies exclude medical treatment beyond a set distance from land — which is exactly where you are on a sea day — and cap or exclude evacuation from a vessel. Helicopter evacuation from a ship runs into six figures.
Buy a policy with explicit cruise cover, and buy it on the day you pay the deposit, not before you fly. Cancellation cover only works if the policy is already in force when the thing that cancels your trip happens — and cancellation penalties on a cruise typically begin months before departure, not days.
Check the evacuation limit as a number. “Unlimited medical” does not always mean unlimited evacuation.
Seasickness is a smaller problem than most people expect — about one in ten visits to a ship’s medical centre. Slips and falls, and ordinary coughs and colds, are both more common.
If you are susceptible: take something before you sail rather than after symptoms start, pick a cabin midship and low, and get where you can see the horizon. This route is sheltered by comparison with open ocean, and a ship this size moves very little.
The medical centre is an urgent-care clinic, not a hospital, and it is not free — consultations and medicines are charged. Bring your own of anything you take regularly.
Tell us how many of you there are. We will come back with the cabin grades, the total including gratuities, and what the flights and any visas will take — before you commit to anything.
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