If you've lived in Japan for awhile you've probably accumulated quite a few frequent flier miles on your favorite airline. If you're like me and managed to acquire a boatload of miles on Northwest Airlines, here's a nice tip on how you can actually USE them..... Try for mileage awards on domestic (in Japan) travel via JAL. If you have a mailing address in Japan (even if you're in the US military you can use the base's Japanese address) this works great. Go to the English language page of Northwest Airlines' Japan website and click on Award Travels under Reservations. It should get you here. Go ahead and start your search for convenient flights, just remember when you get towards the bottom of the page and are asked to "Select and airline..." be sure and select "Japan Airlines".
Except for a few very high traffic times of the year (Obon, New Years, etc.) if you plan a month or so out you can almost always use your accumulated NWA miles to buy intra-Japan air flights on JAL. Best of all, round trips will cost you just 15,000 miles! So where can you go from Haneda? How about Kyoto? Or Nagasaki? Or one of my favorite places in the world, Naha, Okinawa.
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