Originally Posted by
boarding_pass
It's such a different world of credit card in Japan! Way less generous in terms of sign up bonuses - and is it usual that credit card annual fees are waived here? Not sure if keeping a card here is good just for the sake of earning miles.
Some entry level credit card don't charge annual fee at all (permanently).
Rakuten card is one of them.
Ordinary credit card's convertion rate is 1 JPY to 0.5 airline miles.
Airline credit cards' earning rate can be 1 JPY to 1 miles.
To get this favorite rate, you have to pay some annual fee (usually, waived for gold card because of its higher annual fee).
And, when you purchase airline tickets from airlines directly by airline creidit card, its rate is 1 JPY to 2 miles.
Other than airline, at some store (e.g, seven-eleven, ENEOS gas staiton), rate is also 1 JPY to 2 miles.
So, ANA WIDE Gold card is good choice.
Correction
100 JPY to 0.5 airline miles
100 JPY to 1 airline mile
100 JPY to 2 airline miles.
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