cc cc wrote:
> 
> "Curt Fischer" <crf3@po.cwru.edu> wrote in message
> 
> > Can anyone recommend a travel agent based in Japan that specializes in
> > multiple-destination itineraries?
> 
> If you are a group of more than 50 persons, JTB will make your itinerary.

Does anyone know 49 people that want to fly from Japan to Europe and
then the US?  :-)

> Seriously, any agency can get you any sort of avalaible ticket or package
> departing from Japan. Take one next to your place, make sure they accept
> credit cards (to reserve and that they actually charge you later when they
> print the ticket and not "before" like the usual gaigin agents).
> 
> > I want to go on a trip from Japan to the US with a stay in Europe,
> > without returning.  Your usual "one way" or "round trip" search options
> > on most sites don't cut it for me, obviously.

I see how this may have been misinterpreted.  I meant, I need to start
in Tokyo, fly to Europe for a week or two of crazy merriment, and then
fly to the US.  This is the end of the trip because I will be
(triumphantly?) repatriating to the US.  

> 2 years ago, that sort of ticket was common (that was an usual "round trip"
> Japan to  US/Canada with a stop-over in a European city). American carriers
> proposed it.
> The price was interesting. I'm not sure that still exists, there is none in
> this month's ABroad. When do you want to travel ?
> If it's before next October, that won't be cheap. It's expensive this year.

Unfortunately my schedule permits travel only in the cash-destroying
travel month of August.  

> A collegue bought a one way Kansai-London for 74 000 yen, for next July, and
> he was on a waiting list for a while.

I used the airtreks.com site that John W. recommended and received a
quote of between $1000 and $1300 for my suggested
Narita-Vienna-(overland to Amsterdam)-Amsterdam-Boston itinerary.  If
this turns out to be true, I will be very satisfied with that price.  I
didn't see the part about needing to be a US resident.  After all those
lazy Americans get back from their labor day holiday, they are supposed
to contact me and work out the details or something.

> If you have enough time, it's probably cheaper for you to fly to the US
> first and you'll get a round-trip to Europe from there. You may get a one
> way Narita to the US under 50 000 yen.

I figured that would be a possibility.  I'm hoping to avoid that
though.  I have long hoped to cross the International Date Line only an
odd number of times in my life.  If I fly to the US first, my precious
dream will remain unrealized.

Thanks to all for their help in this thread.

--
Curt Fischer