Originally Posted by
JapanFlyerT
That is the card, and with the 45 elite plus 3 free night certs meant platinum was effortless. Add in well-timed leisure travel and titanium was in reach. However, in October AMEX JP raised the annual fee to ¥82,500, reduced some earnings, plus increased spend requirements from ¥1,500,000 to ¥4,000,000. On the plus side they raised the free night cert from 50-75,000.
I may downgrade next year after I get my cert, which will mean just 5 elite from my Japan card in the future and a goal of platinum. Three more years and I will have the lifetime plat. To be honest I really don’t see much difference between plat and titanium.
I am most certainly going to downgrade the Japan Amex Premium, if not even cancelling it entirely. The benefits for 82K yen is just not good enough, and i am still not convinced that I am better off with the standard, rather than to diverting the spend to JAL Cards.
I am not quite done with stays for the year, but I am at 50 paid, 13 redeemed, 20 from double nights, 15 from Amex for a total of 98 nights and 11K spend. Another 5 paid nights coming before 31.12.