On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:04:44 PM UTC-5, (unknown) wrote:
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> I did this this April; had tickets from SF -> Tok -> Kochi and back. Flew
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> into Tokyo, then the wife and I spent a week travelling around until we
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> made Kochi, then used the  return ticket to fly back to Narita, then 
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> SF. 

That's probably what we'll do; my son wants to see Tokyo, so we'll spend a day or two there before heading to the inlaws. Got a hotel in Nara at the end of our trip; the routing for a flight with hotel was better than without, and was the same price, which is strange but it works out.

John