• Roundtrip airfare from Portland

• JMJ Youth Guide assistance from arrival to departure

• Hotel Lodging

• Breakfast Daily

• WYD Meals: lunches and dinners during WYD events by vouchers or similar system (determined by the WYD committee)

• Group Airport Transfers (see details below)

• Public Transportation

• Daily Mass

• WYD registration and fees (up to $250)

• Seoul Walking Tour

• Days in the Diocese

• Nagasaki and Catholic Japan Extension

• Gratuities are not expected in Korea. However, tipping your guide is appreciated.

• Travel Insurance. To add insurance, click on the insurance link once you register.

1.   Packing List

2.  Baggage Policy 

3.  Late & Cancellation Fees

4. Travel Documents & Requirements

Depart Portland for Seoul

Flight details coming soon!

Arrive in Seoul. Transfer to Uijeongbu for Days in the Diocese.

Spend the days before WYD with a local host parish. Participate in spiritual, cultural, and service activities together with local parishioners.

Depart your DID host parish and transfer to your lodging in Seoul. Meet your JMJ youth WYD Guide, and prepare for WYD.

Seoul walking tour including historical, cultural, and spiritual highlights of the city. World Youth Day opening ceremonies and Mass this afternoon with the Archbishop of Seoul.

Morning Catechesis, which generally includes talks, testimonies, music, a teaching by a Bishop, and Mass. Afternoon World Youth Day Cultural Festival event options around the city.

Morning Catechesis, which generally includes talks, testimonies, music, a teaching by a Bishop, and Mass. Afternoon welcoming ceremony with our Holy Father! Evening concert on the main stage.

Morning Catechesis, which generally includes talks, testimonies, music, a teaching by a Bishop, and Mass. Afternoon World Youth Day Cultural Festival event options around the city. Evening Stations of the Cross.

Morning Mass in the city, then pilgrimage walk to the chosen vigil site. Spend an evening in prayer with our Holy Father and sleep out under the stars.

Wake up this morning to a new day! Morning Mass with the Pope followed by the announcement of the location of the next World Youth Day! Pilgrimage walk back to your lodging. Free evening.

Arrive in Fukuoka, meet your Japanese guide, transfer to Nagasaki for dinner and overnight.

Enjoy your first full day in Japan. Visit the Twenty-Six Martyrs Museum and Monument, a site honoring the 26 Christians martyred in 1597 including St. Paul Miki. Learn how they suffered for the Faith when it was outlawed, and how the Christians went underground for two centuries. Next visit the Oura Cathedral which was built when Christianity was once again allowed in the international district of Nagasaki. Finally, visit the Seibo-no-Kishi Monastery of St. Maximilian Kolbe as well as the Lourdes Grotto he built. Mass and dinner.

Visit the Kurosaki Church and the Karematsu Shrine dedicated to the "hidden Christians" who practiced their Faith in secret during two centuries of persecution. Next visit Father de Rotz Memorial Hall to see the exhibits on his life and work dedicated to the people of Sotome. Finally, visit Bastian's House, a cave where Christian leader Bastian hid and secretly continued ministry after the ban on Christianity. Mass and dinner.

Begin with Mass at the rebuilt Urakami Cathedral which lies within one mile of Ground Zero of the Atomic Bomb that fell on August 9th, 1945. Visit the hermitage and museum of Dr. Takashi Nagai to expereience the story of his spiritual journey of peace and forgiveness. Finally, experience Peace Park, Ground Zero, and the Peace Memorial Museum for a powerful reminder of the destructive power of nuclear weapons. Dinner and overnight.

Depart Japan's Fukuoka Airport and return to Oregon.

Group transportation between the airport and your lodging upon arrival and departure.

Public transit passes issued by the WYD committee will be used in the city and region of Seoul.

Lodging details coming soon!