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  Warning: This post advocates the use of multiple credit cards. Credit cards can be dangerous and expensive if you spend money that you don't have. If you think you might spend money you don't have, stop reading. All of my advice assumes that at minimum, you set up and verify that autopay works for the full statement balance before the due date! If a $15 bowl of seafood and rice can't convince you to make the trip, I'm not sure what to tell you. So you want to go to Japan, but you're not looking for a comfortable flight or fancy hotels, you just want to get there and eat your way around Tokyo. Let's see what we can do with two credit card bonuses and a bank account bonus. First you're gonna want to do your homework for the flights by seeing what's available from your home airport, scroll to the bottom of this post for how I do it from my home airport of GEG, in this example I'm using Delta. The Accounts Card 1: American Express Delta Gold  - (Referr...

Warning: This post advocates the use of multiple credit cards. Credit cards can be dangerous and expensive if you spend money that you don't have. If you think you might spend money you don't have, stop reading. All of my advice assumes that at minimum, you set up and verify that autopay works for the full statement balance before the due date! I am a cheapskate, but I love travel. In 2014, my wife (P2) and I (P1) decided that we wanted to do an international trip but I balked at the cash prices of plane tickets. I had noticed that credit card companies were constantly trying to get me to sign up for their products with welcome offers that seemed too good to be true. I figured why the heck not, I was done using my credit for a while since we already got our mortgage and auto loan so the inquiries wouldn't hurt me, right? I decided to get a couple of credit cards beyond the Costco Amex and Alaska Airlines Visa. In late 2014 I started out with the Amex SPG. The Starwood Prefe...