Seven days in the subtropical south: the thousand-year-old cedar forest of Yakushima and the Jōmon-sugi trek, then the Ryūkyū kingdom, the potters' street of Naha, the fukugi road of Bise and the Churaumi aquarium.
Twelve days from the west coast to Kaikoura: the Hokitika Gorge, Cave Stream, the Punakaiki Pancake Rocks, the Oparara arches, Te Waikoropupū, the Abel Tasman Coast Track, the Queen Charlotte Track and the Kaikoura sperm whales.
Twelve days at the far end of the South Island: Nugget Point, the Cathedral Caves at low tide, the petrified forest of Curio Bay, the Rakiura Track and the southern brown kiwi at Ocean Beach, then seven days of cruising to Preservation Inlet.
Twelve days from the most famous walk in the world to the west coast: the four days of the Milford Track up to Mackinnon Pass, Queenstown and the Kawarau bridge, Roy's Peak, the Rob Roy Glacier, the Haast Pass and the Fox heli-hike.
Eighteen days on the northern island: Sapporo and Otaru, Cape Sōya at the far end of Japan, the climb up Rishiri-Fuji, the hills of Biei, Daisetsuzan, Shiretoko and its brown bears, then the volcanoes of the south down to Hakodate.
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