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DIRECT ORY
Arriving by Air
Kansai International
Airport
∑ kansai-airport.or.jp
Narita International
Airport
∑ narita-airport.jp
Airlines
Interior of the check-in lobby at Kansai International Airport All Nippon Airways
(ANA)
Osaka Bay, Kansai International Sapporo in Hokkaido and Tel (0120) 029­222 (toll­free).
Airport has direct connections Naha in Okinawa. ∑ ana.co.jp
with Europe, North America, British Airways
and other regions. Taxis, limou­ ∑ britishairways.com
sine buses, and trains are all Airport Tax
efficient ways to reach Osaka. Visitors traveling from Kansai, Delta
There is also a high­speed boat Narita, Nagoya, or Fukuoka ∑ delta.com
service to Kobe. The TIC is in airports are subject to a Pass­
the arrivals lobby. For onward enger Service Facilities Charge Japan Airlines (JAL)
journeys by rail, Rail Pass (PSFC). At Kansai this is about In Japan:
Exchange Orders (see p381) ¥2,650 per person, at Nagoya Tel (0120) 25­5931 (toll­free)
may be exchanged at the it is ¥2,500, and at Narita and for international reservations.
JR Information Counter, TiS Fukuoka the charge is around Tel (0120) 25­5971 (toll­free)
Travel Service Center, or ¥2,040 and ¥945 respectively. for domestic reservations.
Ticket Office (see p381). This tax is included in the cost ∑ jal.co.jp/en/
of the ticket. Other airports do In USA and Canada:
not make this charge.
Air Fares and Tickets Tel (1­800) 525 3663.
∑ ar.jal.com
Ticket prices are comparable. Luggage Delivery
A return trip costs about £500 In UK:
from London and $800 to This is a service whereby Tel (0845) 7­747­700.
$1,000 from the US. Prices are luggage can be delivered from ∑ uk.jal.com
highest around New Year, airports to either a hotel or a Qantas
Golden Week, and summer private address the following ∑ qantas.com.au
(July and August). day. It is also possible to have
lug gage picked up for deliv ery United
to an airport, although this has ∑ united.com
Domestic Flights to be ordered two days in
JAL and ANA maintain an advance. Companies offering Virgin
∑ virgin.com
extensive network of flights this service operate counters
covering the four main islands at Narita and Kansai airports. Domestic Flights
and many of the smaller ones. Among the service providers
Often there is very little diff­ are JAL ABC, Yamato, and ANA Skymark
erence in price between flying Sky Porter. The basic cost for Tel (050) 3116­7370.
and going by shinkansen one large bag is about ¥2,000– ∑ skymark.co.jp/en
(bullet train), so flying can be 3,000 depending on the size,
better unless using a JR Rail weight, and destination. Luggage Delivery
Pass. On domestic flights, JAL
and ANA offer economy seats Arriving by Ferry ANA Sky Porter
and a “Super Seat” service, ∑ ana.co.jp/eng/amc/
which is a combination of first It is possible to travel to Japan reference/tameru/other/
and business class. You can by ferry from some parts of delivery/skyporter.html
make reservations through a mainland Asia, including Pusan JAL ABC
travel agent or directly with in South Korea and Shanghai in ∑ jalabc.com/english
the airlines. The domestic low­ China, from where boats run to
cost airline Skymark operates Kobe and Osaka. The Far Eastern Yamato
flights between Tokyo, Nagoya, Shipping Line con nects Niigata/ ∑ kuronekoyamato.co.jp/
Ibaraki, Fukuoka and various Takaoka with the port of english/services/airport.html
other cities in Japan, includ ing Vladivostock in Russia.

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