Southern Japan in $680s-$690s RT

"JAPAN JAPAN JAPAN PLEASE SEND US MORE JAPAN WE ALL LOVE JAPAN!!!"

 – You guys, every time we survey you about your dream vacations :-)

And you folks in the Bay Area are no stranger to sweet Tokyo fares, but we've got something a little more rare for you today: four Japanese cities from the southern half of the country!

Drop down in Nagoya and you basically get three famous cities in one, because Kyoto and Osaka are less than an hour away by train. If you'd rather hit the trails, Fukuoka and Kumamoto are down on the island of Kyushu, where you can hike an active volcano.

And perhaps most alluring, we have Okinawa! This little tropical island might lack the city-hopping abilities of your other options, but why would you ever leave a place like this?