First award ticket, connecting at NRT on a separate ticket
I have a First Class award ticket LAX-NRT and need to buy an onward same-day connection to CTS (Sapporo). There is a seemingly perfect non-stop connecting flight 2 hrs and 5 min. after my arrival and the ANA website offers me a "Super Value Discover Japan" fare of $133.60 per person.
If I purchase this, will ANA thru-check baggage to the connecting flight? (I know the baggage limitations for the two flights are different.)
Will they check us in all the way through?
I ask because we did something similar on a JAL trip to Osaka via NRT a couple years ago and upon arrival at NRT we had to take our bags to the JAL domestic check-in area, re-check them and check in for the connection. I am OneWorld Emerald so that went fairly smoothly, but am nothing in Star Alliance and with a 2 hour total connection time, it could be troubling if there is a long line to check in once we get to NRT.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated!