Periods when the discount tickets cannot be used. Passenger must be in possession of an international return ticket (any airline) with the first leg of the journey originating from outside of Japan.Passenger must hold a passport issued by a country other than Japan.This a considerable discount their standard flight prices, although you may still want to compare it to ticket prices at the low-cost carriers. ANA: Experience Japan FareĪNA’s offer means that foreign visitors can book one-way flights within Japan for ¥10,800 per flight (¥5,400 for routes within Hokkaido). ANA has the Experience Japan Fare and JAL offers the Yokoso Visit Japan Fare, the Welcome to Japan Fare, and the Japan Explorer Pass. These LCCs now hold a 15-20% share of the domestic and short-haul international market, and have driven down the overall cost of flights.ĪNA and JAL both offer discounted domestic flight packages for foreigners. In recent years competition for domestic and short-haul internationals passengers has increased with the establishment of low cost carriers (LCC). Japan’s two biggest airlines are Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA). For visitors wanting to see the entire country, a one-way flight north or south from Tokyo and a Shinkansen back to the capital with the Japan Rail Pass is one possible option. There are over 20 major airports dotted around Japan (and many smaller regional airports) and no destination from Tokyo is going to take much more than 2 hours to reach. And with most domestic flights leaving from Haneda, journey time from central Tokyo to the airport is than an hour. The same journey by train would take about 8 hours with one change and cost ¥26,000 one-way. A flight from Tokyo to Nagasaki, for example, takes 2 hours and (if booked in advance) costs around ¥30,000 for a return ticket. You can't get 2 Yokoso tickets for 1 international ticket - although you could get 1 Yokoso and 1 Welcome to Japan ticket.As convenient as the Shinkansen is, it is not always the fastest or cheapest way to travel inter-regionally within Japan. Be aware also that for the air pass you are limited to 5 domestic flight segments per international ticket. So you can fly to Tokyo and then down to Okinawa on the pass, but it's severely out of the way. With the exception of the flight to Tokyo. The flights from Kagoshima to other cities are all JN flights, Nor can you use the airpasses from Kagoshima to Okinawa. So it's not true that the airpass covers all JL Japan domestic flights either. Those codeshare flights operated by Ryukyu Air Commuter and Fuji Dream are also not covered. Only pure JL flights and Japan Transocean (NU) flights are covered. But for JAL the only planes that fly there are its Japan Air Commuter (JN) subsidiary, which isn't covered under its air passes. Likewise, ANA has its own version which functions much the same for its Star Alliance.Īnd there is indeed an airport on Yakushima.
For other carriers though you can get JAL's Welcome to Japan fare - but it's a bit more expensive and the blackout dates are a lot worse. There needs to be a few more details and corrections for you here.įirst, you can't take *any* international carrier for JAL's Yokoso Air Pass - you must take JAL or another One World carrier.
From Kagoshima to Okinawa, you can use the airpasses. Since the flight from Osaka to Yakushima is around 30000 yen and there seems to be no big discount, I guess JAC flights can not be used with the airpass program.įrom Kagoshima to Yakushima, the lowest fare is 9500 yen, and there are cheap flights from Osaka to Kagoshima (Peach Aviation, Skymark Airline etc.).įrom Yakushima to Okinawa, there are no direct flights. Therefore you should ask JAL whether the flight you would like to use is covered by the airpass. I can not find a clear statement whether JAC can be used in the airpass program.
However, Wikipedia (Japanese) describes that JAC is not a oneworld member because of the 経営施策 (management policy?), which might mean JAC is not contributed to the airpass program. Since JAC is a subsidiary of JAL, its flights seem to be covered by Oneworld Yokoso/visit Japan fare and Welcome to Japan fare. Flights to/from Yakushima (from/to Osaka, Kagoshima and Fukuoka) are operated by Japan Air Commuter (JAC).