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^ Have you tried looking for tickets that will fly from a bigger city (Chicago, Houston, LA, etc) to Tokyo? I find those tickets to be a few hundred dollars cheaper than tickets from other cities (like Nashville). I know Atlanta has a big airport, but from all the searches I've seen, none of the ones (that go from Nashville to Tokyo) have a connector flight in Atlanta. Plus, country-side tickets are actually cheap (depending on when and where you go), so flying from Atlanta to Houston or Chicago or whatever shouldn't be too expensive; you just need to worry about flying from that bigger city to Tokyo.