Originally Posted by urww

No strict plan so far. The fact we cannot add domestic legs to our existing award tickets + availability of flights for sale and prices (when they are finally released) could affect our routing. We are thinking about:
HND-OKA-SPK-HND
or
HND-OKA-FUK-ITM
or
ITM-OKA-FUK-HND
or just
ITM-OKA-HND

So generally we're talking about 2-3 domestic legs, no more. I mentioned $300 just as a "somewhat around" sum based on the price check for Sept-Oct I did. I could see class J widely available on longer domestic legs for $150-200 per segment (starting from $100, but those are very very very limited dates/flights). If we end up paying $400-500 per person it's still fine.

Yokoso/Visit Japan Fare besides being available only in economy has also blackout period from December 23, 2017 to January 03, 2018 (which is more than half of our time in Japan, we're arriving 21/12 and leaving 09/01).
https://www.jal.co.jp/yokosojapan/


Thank you very much! It's very helpful. So the worst in terms of fares time for flying from Tokyo or Kansai region to OKA is 26/12 to 03/01? Then we can put Okinawa in the end or our trip, good I didn't make prepaid hotel reservations.

Anyways we have to wait until they finally release those poor flights for sale to be able to build up the entire plan.