Ways of Getting to Japan

Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:56 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

if you're really crazy enough, there's alot of ways do do things. I have a friend who's a pilot, not a good enough friend for him to give me any discounts(grr...) but he did tell me about this rarely used annoying way to get flights. He said that some airlines allow you to pay a reduced fee to be put on the waiting list for a flight. if you've ever been on a standby list, you know how fun this is NOT. and then you have to stay in the airport until there's a cancellation on a flight. I've only done it once on my flight back to Puerto IRco, and I was waiting for 16 hours (16 hour wait for a 1.5 to 2 hour flight from Orlando to PR), I onlypaid $100 USD for a flight that coulda cost me 600+.

I'm gonna be taking a road trip to california and trying this at one of the airports there, but I'm lucky enough to have people I can stay with in both cali and japan .^_^;

.... or you could swim.

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:16 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

japan is so cool but god it cost sooo much and takes forever to get there....i want to go to south korea and meet those crazie azn guys over there them sooo cute! i luv them! i hope they aint gay!

Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:24 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:39 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Valcun@; SAVE<SAVE<SAVE<THEN<SAVE<THEN ENJOY UR TRIP cheers

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:47 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Saving is for suckers!! Try this!

http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6722,51093,00.html

[edit: the above deal is long gone]

Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 7:13 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

>_> it seems to my that you still have to save for that deal ^ ^ha-ha - but you are right it is cheap.

Japan is hard to get to. I don’t think anyone would deny that, coupled with the fact that most people here are college students/uni students i would say that maybe you should wait until you have a reasonable paying job and then find a way over there...

But! Even though that sounds good on paper. A lot of people are just so damn desperate to get to Japan (a.k.a me) - I think the things you have to do is

A] - Volunteer at a Japanese Organisation. It doesn’t even have to be one in your local area.

B] – Make friends with lonely foreigners over in Japan (not Otaku or really perverted ones are probably best)

C] – If your parents (if you are living with them) say “No- education comes before fun” you have to
1. Tell them you are going over for the experience of a life time
2. Get them addicted to Hana Yori Dango so they become obsessive
3. Just say No
(Mine was a mixture of 1 and 3)

If you want to go there to live.. the only way really in taking a “2 year working holiday” and yahh.
Personally I have both a girlfriend and a upcoming job over there – and I am 17… I am cannot help to much, but if you live in Australia I may be able to help you out as I am the head of a new Japanese – Australia Organisation called JPAU www.jpau.org (website is not up yet ^ ^;;) But I maybe able to help you get over there

I am spending 2 years in Kobe (Near Osaka) and I think that anyone with enough motivation can do the same.
Note for some fan girls: Japan is really not like it is portrayed in Animation or Dorama.

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:38 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

LIES!!!! your destroying my image of japanese society!!!. lol j/k .well, getting to know what life is really like in other countries is partially why people travel too right?

Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:21 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

I wonder though - how many people actually become disappointed on their first trips to Japan - I know mine was nothing to be disappointed at.
I spent the whole time at J - Music lives.. one of my friends caught a Miyavi water bottle he drank out of and threw into the audience.. she still has the 1/2 full waterbottle on her table >< lame i tells ya haha ^ ^.

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 8:57 pm Post subject: heya Post Rating: 0

What I have found to be cheaper are tickets that usually make stops at korea before moving on to Japan. Also i recommend a round-trip ticket, because flights going out from Japan are more expensive, as i have noticed this on my last trip.

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 11:16 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Not withstanding that this thread is over a year old.

Cheap tickets depend on where you're coming from, its not neccessarily true that cheap tickets go through Korea. If you are coming from the US more flights go through Japan than through Korea.

Its all about fare buckets, time of year booked, hub non hub etc etc.