Originally Posted by tmrevolution
Thanks for the information. I've actually taken the Korean Air flight from Aomori to Seoul when I used to live in Aomori. The only problem is that the flight only operates 3 days a week. Also, when I check the flight schedules between Tokyo and Aomori on koreanair.com, it just lists the JAL flights.
There are a huge slew of discounts for flights in Japan, the problems are a) finding information in English, b) sorting them all out and c) actually making the booking. But a few of the easy ones:
* If you're flying into Japan on JAL/ANA, you should be eligible for the Visit Japan domestic fares, Y12000/flight at last check. Definitely the best option if you qualify.
* Advance purchase tickets (Jp.
maeuri) get you varying levels of discounts depending on how early you book: 14, 21 and 45 days in advance or something like that.
* You also get a small (10%) discount for booking a return flight.
There's also a number of "super-discount" (
cho-wari) seats for advance bookings for unpopular flight times, but I'm not sure if Aomori is a busy enough destination to qualify for these.