Update: This popular offer is still available.
ZIPAIR offers
Roundtrip Nonstop Flights from Los Angeles, California (LAX)
to Tokyo, Japan (NRT) on sale for
$544.05 for travel on select dates November 2022 - March 2023.
Thanks to Deal Hunter
serra for finding this deal.
Note: If JPY is selected by default, you may change currency to USD at top right of home page before searching for fares. Starting Oct.11, independent visitors are allowed to enter Japan without a visa and ending its daily cap on arrivals. Just provide proof of vaccination and booster shot or submit a negative COVID-19 test result. Prices may vary slightly w/ exchange rate fluctuations.
Travel Availability (subject to change):
- Departs LAX: Nov 28-30; Dec 1-2, 5-8; Jan 11-13, 15-31; Feb 1-18, 20-28; March 1-10, 13-16
- Returns: Dec 1-2, 6-16; Jan 13, 16-20, 22-31; Feb 1-25, 27-28; March 1-17, 20-23
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my very first sentence....
Starting Oct.11, independent visitors are allowed to enter Japan without a visa and ending its daily cap on arrivals. Just provide proof of vaccination and booster shot or submit a negative COVID-19 test result
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that's just me.
No food service, no wake ups, nada if you don't do anything. You can buy food, or bring your own, or eat before.
787 configured like the ANA parent 787s, so seatguru saying there's legroom for tall, fast, or both apply. (But it's still economy not flat business class.)
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T-Mobile USA roams free abroad, so unless you need gobs of data wifi can't give you conveniently, the usual Narita travel sim + train package works....
IF YOU BRING A FULLY UNLOCKED PHONE (NO SIM OR CARRIER OR REGION LOCKS).
If you bring a sim unlocked, but region locked phone, it won't work.
You'll want at minimum a phone that supports 3g bend 1, if not 4g band 1 for the widest coverage.
You can look up the 3g/4g band charts for the other bands.
...
Normally, when there's tourists before covid:
Narita Express into Tokyo Station is recommended. Quick, fast, nice view, and drops you into the biggest station on the east side - the calmer, non-touristy business side.
(Honestly, arriving in Shibuya/Shinjuku after a long flight is a PITA because it's so crowded and such.)
Freaking huge underground mall = haircut to food to shopping gifts etc without needing to exit the station.
Nowadays with nobody traveling, relative ghost towns - Tokyo Station, shibuya, etc.
Those wanting bars, dancing, young clothes, indie movies, big city experience, etc - west side, shibuya/shinjuku.
Those bookish/geeks, relaxed strolls, museums, upscale, smaller city experience - east side from rich Ginza shopping, relaxed hibiya to imperial palace strolls, bookstores up to kanda, geeks in akiba.
....
You WILL want a map, digital or printed, of the Tokyo metro system. Figure it out, get a Suica card, load it up, and away you go. It is the easiest way to get around Tokyo rain or shine.
(Narita airport, Tokyo Station. You can get sim card, suica card, etc.)
Then another map for Tokyo Station + the underground mall. They're HUGE because it's linked to just about everything else (ie. You can Shinkansen train from Tokyo to the rest of Japan, Disney, etc.).
...
Covid infection and death rates about 2x that of America right now.
Meaning in there's a 1 in 100 chance of catching covid here, is 1 in 50 there.
It's lagging because America went "mask-free" earlier.
But it still means 1 plane load of Americans (500~) die from covid EACH DAY in America, about half (200~) in Japan.
Because most travelers have no Japanese medical insurance coverage, and getting covid sucks, n95 masks, or at minimum a good surgical type mask (sold everywhere in Japan) recommended at all times. Cheap insurance.
(And no, the vaccines don't work well... All the data shows protection wanes below 25% after 3-4 months post injection, so don't expect that'll save you.
The Elderly 65+ remain the 80%+ of covid deaths, so while the young might not die, they'll have the worst flu-like illness when they do catch it like my many young friends have reported. Like can't get up, can't eat, can't move ill.)
...
$1 to 140 yen+ means you get a nice discount of about 25% on everything vs 110 last year.
Narita currency converter is ok. Otherwise, you'd have to hunt down the best places with the best rates, or utilize multicurrency accounts like Wise+ their card to avoid transaction fees etc.
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IF you go during heavy RAINY weeks, you'll NEED serious waterproof jackets and pants.
Not the baby stuff for light rains, we're talking end of World like rains that'll soak you in 1 minute.
IF you go during snowy WINTERY cold days, think ski jacket/pants warm. You know what Shriveling cold winds.
But oddly, all my girls think it's totally ugly to be wearing anything BUT cute short skirts in sub-freezing Tokyo winters...which many of their native young girls do, too.
Picture from yesterday.
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Picture from yesterday.
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woohooo!
No food service, no wake ups, nada if you don't do anything. You can buy food, or bring your own, or eat before.
787 configured like the ANA parent 787s, so seatguru saying there's legroom for tall, fast, or both apply. (But it's still economy not flat business class.)
...
T-Mobile USA roams free abroad, so unless you need gobs of data wifi can't give you conveniently, the usual Narita travel sim + train package works....
IF YOU BRING A FULLY UNLOCKED PHONE (NO SIM OR CARRIER OR REGION LOCKS).
If you bring a sim unlocked, but region locked phone, it won't work.
You'll want at minimum a phone that supports 3g bend 1, if not 4g band 1 for the widest coverage.
You can look up the 3g/4g band charts for the other bands.
...
Normally, when there's tourists before covid:
Narita Express into Tokyo Station is recommended. Quick, fast, nice view, and drops you into the biggest station on the east side - the calmer, non-touristy business side.
(Honestly, arriving in Shibuya/Shinjuku after a long flight is a PITA because it's so crowded and such.)
Freaking huge underground mall = haircut to food to shopping gifts etc without needing to exit the station.
Nowadays with nobody traveling, relative ghost towns - Tokyo Station, shibuya, etc.
Those wanting bars, dancing, young clothes, indie movies, big city experience, etc - west side, shibuya/shinjuku.
Those bookish/geeks, relaxed strolls, museums, upscale, smaller city experience - east side from rich Ginza shopping, relaxed hibiya to imperial palace strolls, bookstores up to kanda, geeks in akiba.
....
You WILL want a map, digital or printed, of the Tokyo metro system. Figure it out, get a Suica card, load it up, and away you go. It is the easiest way to get around Tokyo rain or shine.
(Narita airport, Tokyo Station. You can get sim card, suica card, etc.)
Then another map for Tokyo Station + the underground mall. They're HUGE because it's linked to just about everything else (ie. You can Shinkansen train from Tokyo to the rest of Japan, Disney, etc.).
...
Covid infection and death rates about 2x that of America right now.
Meaning in there's a 1 in 100 chance of catching covid here, is 1 in 50 there.
It's lagging because America went "mask-free" earlier.
But it still means 1 plane load of Americans (500~) die from covid EACH DAY in America, about half (200~) in Japan.
Because most travelers have no Japanese medical insurance coverage, and getting covid sucks, n95 masks, or at minimum a good surgical type mask (sold everywhere in Japan) recommended at all times. Cheap insurance.
(And no, the vaccines don't work well... All the data shows protection wanes below 25% after 3-4 months post injection, so don't expect that'll save you.
The Elderly 65+ remain the 80%+ of covid deaths, so while the young might not die, they'll have the worst flu-like illness when they do catch it like my many young friends have reported. Like can't get up, can't eat, can't move ill.)
...
$1 to 140 yen+ means you get a nice discount of about 25% on everything vs 110 last year.
Narita currency converter is ok. Otherwise, you'd have to hunt down the best places with the best rates, or utilize multicurrency accounts like Wise+ their card to avoid transaction fees etc.
...
IF you go during heavy RAINY weeks, you'll NEED serious waterproof jackets and pants.
Not the baby stuff for light rains, we're talking end of World like rains that'll soak you in 1 minute.
IF you go during snowy WINTERY cold days, think ski jacket/pants warm. You know what Shriveling cold winds.
But oddly, all my girls think it's totally ugly to be wearing anything BUT cute short skirts in sub-freezing Tokyo winters...which many of their native young girls do, too.
I think you were lucky. I live in Tokyo and fly between the states quite a bit and the last time I had a row to myself on a plane was almost a year ago.
Narita was crowded AF a few weeks ago.
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Zipair refunds don't seem as convenient as the major airlines (understandably so as a budget airline for Japan Air)
Zipair refunds don't seem as convenient as the major airlines (understandably so as a budget airline for Japan Air)
you may renew your passport online [state.gov]
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Thanks in advance.
you may renew your passport online [state.gov]
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I'm also not experienced enough to know whether these deals are pop-up deals where the $545 RT price just goes away randomly or if it's until the flights fill up.
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BTW I get my information from following reddit /r/passports where they have a small but dedicated group of people who track such things.
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