Japan Planning Thread 3

[Takoneko]

Hi!

This is a new Japan Planning Thread for when our last one is full.

Feel free to ask any questions here related to travel in Japan, regardless of budget or style of trip.

Is anyone else feeling a bit of decision paralysis about booking flights? We have our flights for the first chunk of our adventure booked (thankfully we booked before the war with Iran kicked off) but I’m dithering about the second stint. Part of me wants to just book now in case prices shoot up even further and another part of me thinks we should wait it out another couple of months to see if the pressures on fuel prices relent a bit. If we buy now there’s a hefty fuel surcharge, but I’m not sure that’s going away anytime soon.

We’d be flying out some time around 9th January and coming home some time during the first week of April. We have some date flexibility.

We have had changes to the flight times we booked coming home this June (virgin) so have to leave a day later (such hardship! ) We are flying to South Korea then taking a ferry to Japan. So it does seem things are a little unsettled.

@Jellyslothbridge Oh no, an extra day in Japan? Bummer!

It does feel like there’s more changes and cancellations than usual recently. I guess they are trying to consolidate and run planes as full as possible.
Everything just feels really up in the air with flights right now. I think I’m just going to take the wait and see approach.