Region: Japan
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Japan by Sea: Why a Cruise Is the Calm Way to See the Summer Festivals
This Saturday I had travelers stepping aboard Celebrity Millennium in Yokohama for twelve nights around Japan, timed to put them dockside in Aomori for the Nebuta Matsuri — the August festival where illuminated floats the size of buses roll through the streets behind taiko drums. It’s the sailing I chose to feature this summer, and…