Cheap Flights to Japan! From $475 Return (Cairns, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melb)

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massari on 25/05/2011 - 22:41 jetstar.com (1814 clicks)
Last edited 26/05/2011 - 01:50 by 1 other user

Similar to the last deal (http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/44647), I found this. Was 478$ return from the gold coast, and travel period is 1 june to 27 July. Enjoy :) Good if you missed out last time.

Looks like it is cheapest from Cairns. Anyway enjoy.

One-way Sale
Fare^ $AUD Economy Routes Travel Periods
$209 Cairns Osaka 1 Jun - 27 Jul 2011
$209 Cairns Tokyo (Narita) 1 Jun - 27 Jul 2011
$229 Gold Coast Osaka 1 Jun - 27 Jul 2011
$278 Sydney Osaka 1 Jun - 29 Jun 2011
via Gold Coast
$298 Melbourne (Tullamarine) Osaka 1 Jun - 29 Jun 2011
via Gold Coast
$278 Sydney Osaka 1 Jun - 29 Jun 2011
via Cairns

BTW Even thou it says one way sale, the return flights are from 229$ (well for gold coast) So good if you can be flexible with the return dates :)

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  Cluster on 25/05/2011 - 23:00

  +1

  It's a one way sale but the return airfares are just as cheap. For example, MEL-KIX (Osaka) $655 return, 7 June to 21 June. That's damn cheap for what you get. If only I could get some time off work…

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  Fliedlice on 25/05/2011 - 23:04

  My sister and I are planning to go and visit Japan some time from December 2011-February 2012. Does anyone know if these type of sales (just as cheap) will be offered for those dates? I've read somewhere on this website where a person has mentioned that more sales will be offered again soon… i'm just uncertain about the actual dates.

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    zhenjie on 25/05/2011 - 23:36

    You'll get sales for those dates. usually dec 20ish to after new years is no sale fares though.

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      dwhes on 26/05/2011 - 14:16

      I'm looking for fares to japan for the exact same time teabagzzz, have to keep looking! I'm crossing my fingers the upcoming jetstar birthday sale will have the dates we need!

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  sonicentropy on 25/05/2011 - 23:10

  +1

  I managed 2 score 2 sub $ 500 jetstar last year from the GC once to Tokyo and once to Osaka both amazing and if I wasn't going to oktoberfest in September I would be so up for another one

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  sonicentropy on 25/05/2011 - 23:12

  Jetstar offer these up ever 3 months in the Friday frenzy emails

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  cocomelon on 25/05/2011 - 23:39

  How is the radioactive in there?

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    Cluster on 25/05/2011 - 23:51

    The radiation is at background levels in Tokyo. Here is a facebook page of a person randomly taking samples around various Tokyo locations: http://www.facebook.com/Tokyo.Radiation.Levels#!/Tokyo.Radia… Slight variations (as one would expect) depending on time, day and location. Highest reading there is around 0.25uSv/hr. The readings coming from Fukushima Daiichi are almost always quoted in mSv/hr, which are 1000 times greater. So, 0.00025 mSv/hr. Nothing to be concerned about.

    I wouldn't venture anywhere near the exclusion zone, but then few tourists do. Fukushima prefecture does not contain any well known tourist draw cards for international tourists.

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      dzhay on 26/05/2011 - 07:52

      +4

      Apart from the nuclear plant.

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      [Deactivated] on 26/05/2011 - 10:21

      -4

      Cluster,

      I appreciate the link and can see the radiation levels in the AIR could possibly be as reported. How would you go about testing the radiation levels of everything on the ground. The crops, the pools, the water supply, the grass, the walls,the cars basically anything exposed over the last 2 months would have a much higher level than reported here.

      For the people wanting to travel Japan please keep this in mind

      Oh and btw, does snyone know what "background" levels mean. It makes it seem all fuzzy and safe,

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        Cluster on 26/05/2011 - 10:38

        Monitoring is active and ongoing (food, ground, air etc). There are daily updates available at many web sites. eg. http://erd-radmon.appspot.com/

        If a couple week holiday in Japan is meant to be hazardous to your health, just consider the millions of Japanese that have to live 24/7 in the country. Referring to the last cheap Japan flight thread on OzBargain and your guru Leuren Moret, they should pretty much all die within a few years if a short holiday to the country is actually hazardous.

        Edit: 'Background radiation level' is a well recognised term meaning the average normal radiation level that can be expected for a particular area. It varies between countries and cities based on topography and geology. Granite for example naturally releases radon. We are all very mildly radioactive. 0.02% of potassium is potassium-40. All living things contain carbon-14. Sitting in a plane at 12km altitude will give you around 20 to 30 times the ground level radiation dose due to less atmospheric shielding from cosmic radiation.

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    flipstardirect on 26/05/2011 - 03:14

    This is a great deal. I just really really really hope that the trolls from the last bargain don't come back here and badmouth the deal itself (remember ozbargain is about discussing the awesomeness of the deal, not the country and its politics) because of the radiation and the crazy media behind it.

    I think I'll actually grab this deal. I need to make another fun trip to shop for some specialist stuff from Japan. Can't wait!

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      [Deactivated] on 26/05/2011 - 10:14

      -4

      Yes correct, Why would you want to hear the truth if you are planning to book.

      Whats this high levels found in tokyo?

      http://www.news24.jp/articles/2011/05/13/07182670.html

      Im sure you can justify that one and still keep your mind at ease.

      How about this??

      Experts detect 5 times higher radiation levels in Tokyo than announced by government
      May 20th, 2011 at 09:24 AM

      http://translate.google.co.kr/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fzassh…

      These are 2 reports out of thousands stating high levels of radiation in tokyo, up to 5 times the normal limit. It seems laughable that I am considered a troll, when the definition of a troll is to cause chaos, however im trying to save peoples lives but providing information that is regularly supressed by the MSM.

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        furythree on 26/05/2011 - 13:46

        +2

        then i guess everyone in tokyo is going to die soon right?

        i call dibs in taking over the akihabara wasteland!

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        Cluster on 26/05/2011 - 22:53

        +1

        I want the maid cafes, and the staff. Got to have the staff :-)

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        flipstardirect on 27/05/2011 - 05:47

        Unless I see at least two or more legitimate peer-reviewed journal articles linking the cause of the aforementioned 'high' levels of radiation to an effect so dangerous that even short-term visits would be hazardous (i.e. life-threatening), then there is absolutely zero credibility to your support of such claims. The reason I state this is that without a consensus in peer-reviewed findings, no epidemiological/radiobiological/pathmorphological studies will ever be undertaken in order to break causality. And only once such studies have also found similar positive findings reinforcing the causality, will actual government bodies of other countries step in and pose travel bans and tourist restrictions to Japan from their respective countries: the only theoretically similar example being the restriction zone still imposed on the Chernobyl Reactor.

        Unless you present peer-reviewed, published evidence supporting why such levels to be found would be hazardous (i.e. life threatening) to tourists, then you should avoid making such warnings to would-be tourists by presenting your support of such causal claims as fact. It is fine to present quantitative information to the public, but it is not right to openly support unvalidated conclusions drawn by others from such quantified information; or even draw your own definitive conclusions, as this lends personal bias to your argument; which concurrently removes your credibility.

        My last post, as again I don't want to flood the comments with blocks of text lol. It's just that such avid support of pseudoscientific claims hurt my eyes. Kinda like a really bad 'expert report' on A Current Affair that tries to scare you!

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  [Deactivated] on 26/05/2011 - 01:16

  +1

  this sucks I booked a one way ticket with jetstar for $500 through an ozbargain link from LAST YEAR!! :( NOT HAPPY BUT GR8 BARGAIN.

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    flipstardirect on 26/05/2011 - 03:17

    +2

    Give it 20 years and airfares will either be the cost of a train ticket, or outphased altogether :) hehehe, the life of the ozbargainer tis cruel

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      salekhard on 26/05/2011 - 17:44

      +1

      True

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  dopefishy on 26/05/2011 - 13:48

  +1

  Can't find any of the 200~ flights apart from from cairns. I received the email today not last night so I got pretty fudged on that deal.. :-{

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  airpoe on 26/05/2011 - 18:33

  -4

  its better to be safe than sorry!!

  alot of multinationals have moved their asian head office staff to hk

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    callum9999 on 26/05/2011 - 21:15

    -1

    Your point being? You think people may be visiting Japan for tours of multi-national HQs?

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      flipstardirect on 27/05/2011 - 05:52

      -1

      What I would do for a tour of one of the high-tech HQs. I bet they have a room of robots that do unspeakably awesome things.

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  [Deactivated] on 27/05/2011 - 15:27

  -2

  I dont see why every gives negative votes to people trying to raise awareness. No one is saying dont go, no one is saying anything all we are doing is trying to give a point of view which isnt broadcast on the MSM.

  Alot of the arguments actually sounded quite reasonable except for one which makes me think those who said it are not very intelligent.

  It was stated " If your right everyone in japan should be dead in a few year"

  Im sorry to say radiation causing thyroid cancer which is the major cancer risk from exposure can develop 15 to 50 years after exposure. So when a naive 20 year old comes on and takes a trip to japan to save a few hundred and when hes 35 develops thyroid cancer he can atleast say he was warned about the possibility of it happening all those years ago.

  You ask me to prove that there is radiation yet you cannot prove there is not. please dont just dismiss people who are trying to show people the other side.

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    Cluster on 27/05/2011 - 23:00

    -1

    Radionuclide caused thyroid cancer is caused by ingestion of iodine-131, an element with a half life of slightly over 8 days. After ten half lives a radioactive source is said to have essentially decayed. Iodine-131 is created during fission, and we're far along enough in time for virtually all of the iodine to have decayed. Citizens of Tokyo were exposed to significant levels of iodine-131 in mid March, and workers in and around Fukushima Daiichi certainly received a high dose. But to say it's still an issue today for the great majority of Japanese is simply not true.

    I take no offense at the 'not very intelligent' jibe as my original comment was meant to put things into perspective: you're worried about a 2 or 3 week holiday while millions live 24/7 much closer to the problem than most tourists will ever get.

    My comment about Leuren Moret still stands, as people who listen to hysterical ranting of the nature she is selling are being badly mislead. She stated Sellafield in the UK killed 25 million children in India. She claimed the Tohoku earthquake was deliberately created by the USA to cause a tsunami, to flood Fukushima Daiichi, to cause a meltdown, that would in turn release radionuclides into the atmosphere, to contaminate USA farming land, so that farmers would be forced to dump it to mining companies and banks. A sensational conspiracy to say the very least. Ms Moret has a lot of experience and is no doubt a very clever women, but with views like that she does not seem to be sane. She provides no evidence for her extraordinary claims which she states as indisputable facts. Her presentation was a key part of your evidence in the previous thread about how dangerous it is to visit Japan.

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      [Deactivated] on 28/05/2011 - 16:38

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      Why for such an intelligent person are you so biased and misleading people. Why do you mention the half life of iodine 131 and not mention any others. You based a whole argument that people would be safe due to the 8 day half life yet you omit other important radio active elements. Even if iodine was the only radioactive substance released the reactors are anything but safe and wont be for years to come. The fact they are purposely releasing radiation to stop an explosion dictates the seriousness of this issue.

      For everyone here is all the halflives of nuclear products.

      Krypton-85 - radioactive noble gas; beta-gamma emitter; 11-year half-life.
      Xenon-133 - radioactive noble gas; beta-gamma radiation emitter; five-day half-life
      Cesium-137 - radioactive form of cesium; beta-gamma radiation emitter; 30-year half-life
      Iodine-131 - radioactive form of iodine that concentrates in the thyroid gland; beta-gamma radiation emitter; eight-day half-life
      Strontium-90 - radioactive form of strontium; beta radiation emitter; 29-year half-life.

      Xenon 133 has a 5 day half life yet it was picked up in Northern territory. I wonder how far everything else travelled in the world.

      http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2011/04/17/225441_ntnews.ht…

      I can agree with you Lueren may be a bit radical but does that mean you discount everything she says?

      How about this article?

      http://enenews.com/japan-senior-politician-if-we-do-nothing-…

      and

      http://enenews.com/ozawa-be-able-live-japan-radiation-going-…

      Its a sad sad state of affairs over there and im just trying to open a few peoples eyes up

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        [Deactivated] on 28/05/2011 - 16:40

        -1

        The bottom line is Its better to be safe than sorry and unfortunately most people have their heads stuck in the sand and are not aware of the seriousness of what has happened. Im just trying to raise awareness and appreciate your replies too.