New Viking itinerary goes Japan to Alaska

Fast-growing Viking Ocean Cruises has rolled out a wide range of new itineraries for 2018 and 2019 that include a voyage from Japan to Alaska.

The 22-night sailing kicks off May 5, 2019 in Tokyo and includes visits to Sapporo, Japan and two ports in Russia -- Korsakov and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Also on the itinerary is the rarely-visited Alaskan port of Dutch Harbor as well as Kodiak, Seward, Valdez, Icy Strait, Sitka and Ketchikan in Alaska. The trip ends in Vancouver, B.C. on May 27, 2019.

The Japan-to-Alaska voyage will take place on the 930-passenger Viking Spirit as it re-positions from Asia to the Americas. The ship is spending the early part of 2019 in Asia and the summer of 2019 in Alaska

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Fares for the sailing start at $6,799 per person.

Scheduled to debut in 2018, Spirit will be Viking's fifth ship. The line currently has two vessels, Viking Star and Viking Sea, that debuted in 2015 and 2016, respectively. It's adding two more ships this year.

Spirit will be a sister to Star and Sea (for a deck-by-deck tour of Star, scroll through the carousel at the top of this story).