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timetotravel · Joined: 02 Sep 2007 Location: korea

I cant believe ticket prices are $500 USD!
Does anyone know of discount airlines that fly to Tokyo, or a cheaper way to get there??

brento1138 · Joined: 17 Nov 2004

timetotravel · Joined: 02 Sep 2007 Location: korea

thank you!
what is the name of the travel agency that offers the 190,000 round trip tickets on the beetle??

nathanrutledge · Joined: 01 May 2008 Location: Marakesh

http://www.jrbeetle.co.jp/english/

Except it only goes from Busan to Fukuoka, which is nowhere near Tokyo.

Smudger · Joined: 26 Sep 2010

I landed a round-trip,holiday season ticket for $340 through whypaymore.co.kr by being patient and waiting for seats to become available. And of course some help from a Korean coworker.
www.whypaymore.co.kr

kprrok · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Location: KC

Dazed and Confused · Joined: 10 Jan 2003

There is usually a KTX-Beetle-Shinkansen ticket for a good deal.

crossmr · Joined: 22 Nov 2008 Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul

There was a decent korean site I used, called nexttour a couple times. But unfortunately they seem to have overhauled the site. It had special prices to some japanese cities sometimes.

apparently they've changed to webtour.com but I don't see any fantastic prices right now.

thegreg52 · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Location: Seoul, Korea

Busan to Shimonoseki on an overnight ferry is less than 100,000. But then you need to high speed train it to Tokyo. That will still be less than 500,000, however.

brento1138 · Joined: 17 Nov 2004

Kangsan travel is the name of the travel agency that sells the 190,000 won beetle tix.

GoldMember · Joined: 24 Oct 2006

Go to the Department of Foreign Affairs in Korea, and tell them you want to do a one man "Dokdo is Korean" protest outside the Royal Palace.
They'll fly you there for free!

wonduhbread · Joined: 22 Sep 2010

tukmax · Joined: 06 Jul 2010

highstreet · Joined: 13 Nov 2010

I've been reasearching this and the cheapest it seems is to just fly to tokyo.

You can get to fukouka or osaka via ferry. then take a train or bus to tokyo. but then you'd have to take a train or bus back to fukouka or osaka to get on the ferry to get back home. plus the cost of the KTX tickets to busan if you live in Seoul. and the won to yen is terrible so...

seems like a huge hassle. but if you are planning a long trip, it might be fun to visit the other places for a bit

allovertheplace · Joined: 02 Aug 2009

Depends on how long the trip is. If you have 10 days or so take the overnight ferry from busan. If only a week just suck it up and fly- its expensive but if there were other, much cheaper options then the flights would come down in price. I flew for like 350 two years ago. I also took the beetle to Fukouka which was cool and a bit cheaper. But i also spend my week in the south rather than paying 250 bucks to get to tokyo.