Cost of single flight to England FROM Japan

[karekora]

How much is a single flight to England, from Japan? I'm in England, I don't know where to look to find this out.

(Seems like an odd question, I know, but I need to know, so any help would be appreciated, thanx!!)

Also, I've seen gaijinpot (awlful) and workinjapan.com (Never updated) what other web job sites can I go to to find a job?

Cheers everyone!!

[Steve Bildermann]

Assuming economy class
Depending on :

1 which month you are travelling
2 which carrier you are on
3 if your ticket is open date or fixed

Return ticket (nobody buys singe fare anymore) prices will be between 34,000 to 94,000.

YMMV.

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

go to http://www.his-j.com the best is about 60000 yen. but you have to be quick and book far in advance.

[kotatsuneko]

i found it cheaper buying over the phone to blighty both times i flew over here..

you can get virgin flights at reasonable prices (tho best to buy/scam an upgrade tho)

look in eikoku digest/ weekly journey for details

[Mulboyne]

Sometimes you can get great deals on lastminute.com. There is often a deal where you don't know the carrier in advance (but you can usually work out who it is from the departure times). ANA and BA are the most common and they are both direct. You'll have to buy a return originating in London but you can ditch the first leg, confirm the second and use that. A friend got his ticket for £320 about for his trip about 6 weeks ago. I've never got the offer for the dates I've needed but you might strike lucky.

[kotatsuneko]

also they tell you that unless you pay extra for an open ticket the 2nd flights date cant be changed

with virgin at least this isnt true, i have changed the second flight date twice with them at no extra cost...

[American Oyaji]

What is an open ticket?

[Mulboyne]

If you buy a discounted ticket then, usually, you will be committed to travelling on the day and time you have chosen. If something comes up to change your plans then you will have to buy a new ticket. Some tickets will allow you to change the departure date of the return leg free of charge or for a small additional charge. An open ticket allows you to change both departure and return date, usually with no charges.

[karekora]

Thanks alot for all your advice.

I think its going to be more sensible for me to buy an open ticket!! As, knowing me, I'll get to Japan, spend loads, be unlucky in finding a job, and then --stuck-- got no money for the return journey....

I asked about an open ticket in Japan Centre, London, but the woman just looked at me blankly as though I'd just spoken Russian to her. I thought maybe her English isn't that good, after repeating it for the 3rd time, so switched to Japanese... her response was to give me a brochure on **VERY EXPENSIVE** tailor-made tours in Japan....

So I guess I got to buy my ticket online... Some places don't do open tickets online though...

Anyway, I decided to give up on the flight, and asked her about the JR 4-day flexible East Pass. I wanted to know if I could buy it there. I was *very* greatful that she understood that!!

"......eikoku digest/ weekly journey for details"

I saw you come from London I know you can get Eikoku Digest from Colindale - Oriental City, do you know of anywhere else as this is quite far for me to go...

Thx ^^

[Mulboyne]

Eikoku Digest is often in Japanese restaurants but it can go quite quickly. There are a number of places along Brewer Street where you might find it since a lot of Japanese students hang out there. Marylebone Lane has restaurants and Japanese hairdressers who also have it.

An open ticket usually equates to a full-fare ticket. However, you can get a discounted ticket on some airlines that give you some leeway. For instance, you might find that if you fix your London departure date then you can get flexibility on your Tokyo departure. Some airlines will let you change the date for a small charge (20/30 pounds). I would sit down at a ticket sales shop and talk through what you need with a rep. You don't have to buy it there and then but they will have a better idea of the terms and conditions are for the flighst available. Trailfinders have good branches near Bank station of High Street Kensington.

[kotatsuneko]

digest/journey dissapear quickly! you can pop in kulukulu sushi in brewer st go immediately right to the magazine rack and pop out again!

also tokyo diner in chinatown get them (i know the owner there, a great bloke) tho you cant nick and run there

misato on wardour st get them (tho the food there is shite now,unlike 5/7 years ago...)

most japanese hairdressers around town also get them, they do have their own drab websites also (the papers not the hairdressers )

japan centre is just for tourist japanese and the (now) extremely rare corporate japanese in rondon..

miki travel have the occasional good deal tho if i remember rightly most of their sales staff only speak japanese.

i`ll try and see if my better half can remember who we used last time, they were cheap.. it may be that pokey but good place in regent st (across the lights near bking)

have also heard good things about traifinders , but the wife always finds better deals than the high st..

if you look in dillons or is it waterstones now? next to tcr station on oxford st they have a new book about travelling japan by rail for around 12 quid, tho if you can try and get Japan Inside Out for the best in-depth travel guide published imho.

yaohan is a ghost town for 14k wannabes only dude ^^

good luck! if you`d like to ask anything over a beer up town just pm me

[karekora]

Thanks for your help. I'm going into London tomorrow, so I'll try and run in Kulukulu, grab the digest and run out again!! Hopefully its there.. ^^ What day does it come out on?

Theres a Trailfinders in the big Waterstones next to Japan Centre, so I might go in there and ask for advice to. See what their prices are like.. If its good, I'm game

Thanks again

"...i`ll try and see if my better half can remember who we used last time, they were cheap.. "


Thanks loads

[kotatsuneko]

the wife is pretty sure we used:

http://www.euro-japan.co.uk

tho she reckons ICEA travel arent bad either

hope that helps!

[kotatsuneko]

did you find a good deal?

[karekora]

I didn't have time to go to eurojapan unfortunately as they only open weekdays, and its really busy at work so I couldn't leave early. Really disappointed about that. I hope to book a JR East Pass with them before I go though, as I'd left work by then!!

I went to Trailfinders on the ground floor of Waterstones. Got a direct open return ticket to Tokyo costing GBP500.

Seemed good to me as I paid loads over that for my Hong Kong direct.

What do you think of that deal?? Its done now anyway!!

Thanks for your help

[Mulboyne]

Since it's an open ticket, that sounds like a good deal.

[Ptyx]

I hope to book a JR East Pass with them before I go though, as I'd left work by then!!

You won't be able to get a rail pass if you're not on a toursit visa. The rail pass is only for tourists and since they want to see your passport when they activate it (in japan) it's pretty hard to fake it.

I went to Trailfinders on the ground floor of Waterstones. Got a direct open return ticket to Tokyo costing GBP500.

Nice deal, open tickets are usually much more expensive than this.

[karekora]

that sucks!!! any advice on how to travel japan cheaply? (non-shinkansen!!)

[Mulboyne]

Re: Travel Pass.
I thought you didn't have a work visa yet...do you have spouse visa then? Where do you want to travel? Depending on your destinations, there can cheap deals on coaches/buses/trains/planes. Even for the shinkansen, you can buy at a discount for major routes from the ticket shops.

[Ptyx]

The Seishun 18 kippu might be a good way to travel cheaply vbut it forces you to travel during holydays so the trains can be packed.
I used it this summer, it's very cheap but also very slow and quite confusing. The ticket only allows you to travel on local trains.
If you combine shinkansen and the 18 kippu it's still a good deal i think and it's not that a pain in the ass.
For more info check japan-guide they have an extended guide on the 18 kippu without it i wouldn't have been able to get out of kanto.

[kotatsuneko]

u gota good deal for this time of the year imho

hope you didnt get too annoyed with the useless, inneficient staff @ the Japanese embassy...