Japanese Low Cost Airlines
Do you know the various Easyjet, Ryanair, Wizz Air? In addition to the national airline Japan Airlines (JAL) and All Nippon Airways (ANA), which often offer advantageous packages for domestic flights, there are also low-cost airlines in Japan that connect the various Japanese cities with each other but also with Korea, China, Taiwan and Australia.
These companies are suitable for longer journeys, in case you want to reach Okinawa or Sapporo, but can be an alternative to the train for the Osaka-Tokyo route.
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Peach Aviation
Peach Aviation is based in Osaka and connects the following cities:
Tokyo, Sendai, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Kagoshima, Osaka-Kansai, Matsuyama, Naha-Okinawa, Ishigaki (Japan), Seoul-Incheon, Busan (Korea), Hong Kong (China), Taipei, Kaohsiung (Taiwan).
The minimum price for an Osaka-Tokyo flight is approximately 4,000 yen.
The airline is part of the All Nippon Airways (ANA) group and in 2019 incorporated the low-cost carrier Vanilla Air.
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JetStar Airways
This Australian company has a Japanese division and connects Narita Airport with the following Japanese cities:
Osaka, Sapporo, Naha-Okinawa, Kagoshima, Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Oita, Matsuyama, Takamatsu.
In addition, Hong Kong, Manila and Australia can be reached from Tokyo.
The minimum price for a Tokyo-Osaka flight is about 4000 Yen.
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Spring Airlines
Spring Airlines is a Chinese airline with a Japanese division and based at Narita International Airport.
The company started flying in 2014 and the destinations served are Hiroshima, Osaka, Saga and Sapporo to Japan plus some Chinese cities such as Wuhan, Harbin, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing.
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Air Do
AIRDO is a Japanese regional airline based in Sapporo. It operates a scheduled service between the islands of Honshu and Hokkaido in cooperation with All Nippon Airways, from its hubs at New Chitose Airport in Sapporo and Haneda Airport in Tokyo.
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Skymark
Skymark Airlines is a Japanese low-cost airline based at Haneda Airport. It operates scheduled services with a main base at Haneda Airport, but is also the main carrier at Kobe Airport, and the only Japanese airline offering scheduled services at Ibaraki Airport north of Tokyo.
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Starflyer
StarFlyer is a Japanese airline based at Kitakyushu Airport in Fukuoka prefecture. It connects major Japanese cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, Naha, Nagoya and Fukuoka.
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Solaseed Air
Solaseed Air is a Japanese regional airline based at Miyazaki Airport in Kyushu. It mainly operates between Tokyo and destinations on the island of Kyushu.
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