China Southern to Osaka, Japan Return Ex MEL $675, SYD $701, BNE $697 (Jan-Jun Incl Sakura Season) via Guangzhou @ BTF

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Merry Christmas all!

China Southern is a 4-star airline and hubs through Guangzhou, China to a ton of Asian destinations, including Japan.

These are the best dates I've found, but if the dates you want aren't there, try them anyway as I can't search every single combination!

Equivalent deal to Tokyo from $665 return.

JAL/ANA from $865 Return is also worth a sniff!

Also compare with Singapore Airlines from all key Aus ports to Tokyo, Osaka or Fukuoka although these were a while back, so some prices may have changed on certain dates/routes.

The cherry blossom or sakura is never perfectly predictable, but some early predictions are below:

A friend has a video series on the 10 Best Cherry Blossom Sakura Spots in Japan - Tokyo, Yamanashi! [4K] (CC)

Destination First bloom Full bloom
Kochi March 17 March 25
Kumamoto March 19 March 28
Hiroshima March 26 April 3
Kyoto March 26 April 4
Nagoya March 24 April 1
Kanazawa March 31 April 6
Tokyo March 19 March 26
Matsumoto April 2 April 11
Fuji Five Lakes April 2 April 10
Sendai March 31 April 6
Hirosaki April 20 April 26
Hakodate April 26 May 3

I also have an article on the top 5 most popular hotels in Tokyo for under $120.

Summary:
Sydney to Osaka (10 Feb - 30 Jun) from $701 return
Melbourne to Osaka (10 Feb - 30 Jun) from $675 return
Brisbane to Osaka (10 Feb - 30 Jun) from $697 return

Sydney - Osaka on China Southern return

Dates: 10 Feb 25 - 30 Jun 25

Melbourne - Osaka on China Southern return

Dates: 10 Feb 25 - 30 Jun 25

Brisbane - Osaka on China Southern return

Dates: 10 Feb 25 - 30 Jun 25

Also consider having a look at our current best found prices by other users by city - Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin, Hobart, Cairns, Canberra.

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Comments

  • How much one way?
    And will you throw in one of those abandoned houses?

  • Keywords China..waiting for interesting comments

    • +1

      My above comment is interesting.
      And just to be clear I want an abandoned house in Japan (sorry not China)

    • +4

      It's frustrating. The tags are "Airfare, China Southern, Guangzhou, Osaka, Tokyo", and then ozb automatically adds china. I removed Guangzhou and that fixed it but added a fairly generic Asia. Go figure.

  • +1

    Looking at the BNE-KIX flights …. they have obscene layovers. I think if you want a few days in China they might be fine, but 15 hours in an airport sounds awful. I'd pay the couple of hundred extra just to fly on an airline with reasonable connections.

  • +4

    Who could be bothered when you can spend an extra $200 and fly direct?

    • +1

      You don't really pay extra, if you don't fly direct you have to add at least 1 day of hotels recover anyway so that's at least $200.

      • Yep

  • -2

    Is this China Line any good?

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