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Seattle to Tokyo - The Hard Way

First of all, let me apologize for being so absent from my blog. As you will see with the next few blogs, I have been traveling, a lot! The good news is that there will be much more for you to (hopefully) enjoy!

From mid-September to mid-October, we sailed on the MS Marina from Seattle, up the coast of southern Alaska, to Whittier, then West to Kodiak and Unalaska (Dutch Harbor) one of the last inhabited islands in the Aleutians. As we did so, we were closing Alaska for the winter. At each port, we were usually the last ship of the season and while the sales on Alaska merchandise were really good, the weather was often cold and wet and things were shutting down.

From there, we crossed the southern part of the Bering Sea, turning left before we entered Russian waters near Kamchatka. From there we headed South to Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido, and doing our first port call in Hakodate. We then sailed further South, making several port calls on Japan's "big island," Kyushu. We ended the trip after two days in Tokyo/Yokahama. The good news here was that we arrived in Japan, the weather was quite nice! Shortly after we left, the typhoon season started with a bang!

I split the photos into two galleries: Alaska 2025 and Japan 2025 (Fall). I hope you enjoy both!

It was a great trip and one I would encourage travelers who: 1) like a lot of "sea time," 2) aren't sensitive to rough seas (15-20 foot seas for days at a time), and 3) want to see some places that are off the beaten track.