Month: July 2018

Level Up! myjapantips.com layout change

On By jrhorseIn Jose's Japan TipsLeave a comment

I have been debating about a change to this layout for quite some time, and I’m happy to announce that the change is now official!

I hope you enjoy the new layout of the website. I made this change for two reasons: First, it’s been many years, probably since starting the blog, that I’ve left the layout the same. It was starting to look tired. Second and more importantly though, I wanted to find a new layout that was easier to read… the previous layout was small and compressed. I think this one works out much better!

Now that my Japan travel videos are more or less finished, I would like to work on this blog a little more and introduce a new travel series! I’m sure I’ve touched on it a little bit here and there, but I’d like to do a series documenting all of the various ways that you can get around once you land at four of Japan’s major airports – Tokyo Narita, Tokyo Haneda, Chubu Centrair (Nagoya) and Kansai (Osaka). As the number of tourists increase in Japan, more and more options to get into the major cities are becoming available. I’d like to do my best to provide all of the options in a method that is easy to understand.

I’ll also work on updating some of the old blog posts, as I do from time to time, to make them more current.

Thanks and enjoy the new blog layout!

Airfare Alert: Los Angeles to Tokyo on Singapore Airlines for $550 round-trip

On By jrhorseIn Japan Airfare DealsLeave a comment

It’s not too often that I pass along some nice airfare deals that I find while roaming the wonderful Internet, but this offer appears too good to pass up on.

As reported by the travel blog God Save the Points, Singapore Airlines has launched a sale on economy and premium economy seats on their daily flights from Los Angeles to Tokyo Narita airport. Economy tickets are are as low as $550 round-trip, while Premium Economy tickets are a good price as well – the blog reports fares starting at $1100 round-trip, though my recent Google Flights search comes up with flights in the range of $1300.

These are for round-trip flights in the beginning of 2019: January 10 through the end of May to be exact. Your return flight to Los Angeles must be no more than 30 days after your flight to Tokyo. Fares are available through July 9, or, as the sales lingo goes, “while supplies last.” So you might not want to wait too long to book a flight.

LA to Tokyo flights are usually priced competitively, but what makes this sale unique is that you are flying on one of the “fifth-freedom” routes of Singapore Airlines, widely heralded as one of the best airlines in the world. Indeed, it is one of ten airlines in the world to receive a 5-Star Airline ranking from SKYTRAX. (One of the others is Japan-based ANA). In fact, Singapore’s economy class cabin itself also received a 5-Star rating.

I’ve yet to see if other airlines have tried to match Singapore’s fare sale, but if you do a search on Google Flights the sale prices should be bookable on Singapore’s website and most of the major online travel sites.