A one-day experience at a hot spring, shopping in downtown Tokyo, visiting Disneyland or seeing a professional baseball game. That is what 407 South Korean tourists enjoyed during a 'bullet tour' to Japan at knockdown prices.
During the fall harvest holiday in South Korea in late September, Japan Airlines Corp. organized its first Japan-bound bullet tour in which visitors fly back home without staying overnight. In a time of both misinformation and too much information,
South Korean tourists Kim Hyang Min ¨C and Bae Seung Wan visit the Takashimaya department store in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward. They traveled to Japan on a ¡°bullet tour¡± via Japan Airlines chartered flights for an 18-hour stay in the capital on Sept. 26.
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