I had a lot of things to do, and I didn't have time to post for a while.
Last time I posted the travel preparation procedure, this time I will post about the points and problems to keep in mind when proceeding with the procedure.
1. Reservation of flights to/from Japan
•Search on the Internet "Skyscanner" is not a direct reservation site, but a site that introduces reservation sites and is an essential app for overseas travelers.
• I checked several reservation sites via 'Skyscanner', but decided that 'Trip.com' looked good, so I made a reservation on this site.
•This reservation site is also available in Japanese, and the response when I ask something I don't understand later is very good, which is very useful.
①Does the flight include meals?
(2) Can I exit the airport at the transit point?
③If you didn't specify a seat, but would like to specify an additional seat, what is the charge?
and so on.
•At first, within the European Union, I thought that it wouldn't matter where I arrived from Fukuoka or where I came back from, so I searched for cheap flights one way. In the end, it was a one-way reservation, but it was a round trip from Japan/Fukuoka Airport to Italy/Rome Fiumicino Airport.
•The reservation was completed on 2023-03-14, but there was a cheaper flight around the beginning of March, two weeks earlier. Specifically, it's a cheap flight that costs a little over 3/4. In other words, it turned out that the ticket price is greatly different due to the difference of 14 days, even though the reservation was made 7 months ago.
•Also, I made a reservation while dining with a friend who was going with me on the day of the reservation. It was a few thousand yen cheaper to go early.
•When I checked two months later, I was surprised to find that the round-trip fare was a one-way fare. In other words, it was nearly double the price.
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★For those who are going to make a reservation, I recommend that you make a reservation as soon as you decide. It is important to make a reservation as soon as you have decided, even if you think that there is a lot of itinerary until the trip.
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•It was a cheap flight, but since it is a full-service carrier airline, the luggage restrictions were perfect, and the allowance was much wider than the LCCs that I used for intra-European travel.
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Flight ticket price: ¥56,370
Return flight ticket price: ¥73,540
Round-trip total price: ¥129,910
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•However, two stopover points were required for the outbound route and one for the return route. The waiting time at each stop was just over 3 hours, not too long. Other flights had wait times of 7-8 hours at transit points.
•I'm sure there were other winners, but I was satisfied with the result.