Originally Posted by
jib71
Are you departing from San Diego? How important is it to fly with AA?
I'll be starting out in San Diego, so I'd have to connect somewhere (LAX, ORD, DFW). AA has a good [b]I[/i] fare, plus I get bennies and points. (The TA mentioned that SQ has a sale now that matches AA's fare, but when I looked in the SQ forum, people don't much like their 747 J product.)
Originally Posted by
SJUAMMF
If you are flying AA, there is a 19:30 HND-HIJ on JL that you should be able to catch. But HIJ is in the middle of nowhere. Taxi from HIJ to JR Hiroshima cost about Y15,000 or by limo bus.
I would suggest flying into KIX then JR to Hiroshima by Haruka to Shin-Osaka + Shinkansen to JR Hiroshima.
First time I flew into HIJ, the taxi driver asked me three times to confirm I really wanted to go to JR Hiroshima. When a highway sign of Saijo went by, I thought I landed on the wrong island and the taxi was headed for the bridge. Fortunately that was a different Saijo.
Neither AA nor EF show the 19:30 HND-HIJ flight as an option for the AA flight (LAX-NRT lands at 16:40), instead showing an overnight.
Y15,000 -- yikes! HIJ is that far from Hiroshima?
Checking the JR search site, it looks like two hours and fifteen minutes to get from Osaka airport to Hiroshima (bus then train) at a cost of Y10,440. Of course, since AA stopped flying to KIX, I'd have to take JL or another carrier over the water, or fly HND-KIX.