When thinking about plane spotting in Japan, it’s easy to focus on the two Tokyo airports. However, the country offers other regional airports that offer a nice mix of traffic that cannot be seen in Tokyo and of nice photo points. One of such airports is Naha (Okinawa) which is the seventh busiest airport in […]
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Besides the domestic lounges operated by ANA and JAL – the two largest airlines in Japan – there are also third-party “credit card” lounges at airports all over Japan. One such lounge is Lounge Hana (stylized “~hana~”) which can be found at Naha airport in Okinawa. I visited it briefly after arriving in Naha from
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For quite some time, I wanted to fly on the longest domestic flight in Japan from Sapporo on the northernmost main island of Hokkaido to Naha on the southernmost main island of Okinawa. The ANA flight is operated by a Boeing 737-800 and covers a distance of 1,392 miles – oftentimes clocking in at more
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Both JAL Sakura Lounge and ANA Lounge at Sapporo New Chitose airport went through a renewal process in the last couple of years. While the JAL Lounge reopened in 2016, the ANA Lounge reopened in September 2017. I visited and reviewed the JAL Lounge in the past (see the review here), and I finally I had
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While I don’t write about destinations on this blog too often, every now and then, I visit a place that I absolutely think deserves an article. Yakushima, an island off the coast of mainland Kyushu in Japan, is certainly one of those places. The island’s ancient forest with thousand-plus-year-old Yakusugi cedars has been an inspiration
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Every summer, NASA’s airborne observatory SOFIA leaves its base in Palmdale, California, and heads to Christchurch, New Zealand to observe the Southern Sky. Being in the southern hemisphere for a couple of months not only allows scientists to observe celestial objects that cannot be seen from the Northern Hemisphere, but it also allows them to
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Flight Information Date: July 12, 2018 Flight No.: JC3745 Route: Kagoshima to Yakushima Airline: JAC Japan Air Commuter Type:Â Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 Registration: JA844C Japan Air Commuter is a Japan Airlines’ subsidiary based in Kagoshima that mainly operates short commuter flights within Kyushu. To do so, the airline uses a fleet of ATRs, Dash 8
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You book the flights for your vacation or to visit your family abroad, a couple of days later decide to look at the confirmation email, and it hits you – you misspelled your name. Or, you entered your first and last name in the wrong order. Situations like that are not common, but they do
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As I’m writing this, I’m sitting in the Asiana Airlines Business Class Lounge at Seoul Incheon airport, waiting for my British Airways flight to London (and then on to Vienna). While I’ll be sharing the usual reviews once I’m done with the trip, I thought I’d share some of the things that caught my attention
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