Peach's Bullet Return Fare: How to Buy Returns from JPY 7,000

When booking closes23:59, two days outStandard fares stay on sale until an hour before departure. Only the Bullet Return closes two days early

Peach’s Bullet Return is a Japanese domestic and short-haul fare sold only as a pair of flights. On domestic routes it applies only to itineraries that come home the same day, flights cannot be changed, and cancelling returns nothing at all.

What is cheap is the fare and nothing else. Check one bag and JPY 4,000 goes on a return, which on a JPY 7,000 route is more than half the price again. Two things decide whether this fare works for you: how many hours you actually get on the ground, and whether everything fits in the cabin.

Check first: does a same-day return actually work?

It is a domestic route, and you fly out and back on the same day
Departure is at least three days away
Your luggage fits the cabin allowance — two pieces, 7 kg between them
If plans change, the fare is small enough to write off
Seats at this fare are open on both the outbound and the return

Five out of five and all that is left is picking a route. If the first line is where you fall out — you want to stay a night — go to the international version instead. The international Bullet Return covers itineraries that return the day after departure, which means one night at the destination. The same-day rule is a domestic condition only.

It is not on the ordinary booking screen

StepWhat to do, and where it catches people

STEP 1Open the dedicated pageBookings are taken only on the fare’s own page. Type dates into the ordinary search box on the home page and this fare does not appear.

STEP 2Choose a departure cityOsaka (Kansai), Tokyo (Narita and Haneda), Sapporo (New Chitose), Sendai, Nagoya (Chubu), Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, Amami, Okinawa (Naha) and Ishigaki, plus six overseas cities.

STEP 3Read the time on the groundEach route card shows the return fare and, next to it, the hours at the destination. Tokyo (Narita) to Sapporo (New Chitose) is JPY 9,000 return with 10 hours 45 minutes on the ground. That figure is the ceiling on your whole day.

STEP 4Open the route detail and read the conditionsSome flights carry no Bullet Return allocation at all. The number of seats is limited and selling out ends it, and the fare applies only when seats are open in both directions.

STEP 5Pay without adding optionsSeat selection and checked baggage are charged separately, and adding them can cost as much again as the fare. Holding payment for 24 hours costs a booking-hold fee of JPY 300 per person per sector.

The mechanics take five minutes. Step 3 is the one that takes thought, because the hours on the ground decide what the day can contain. Ten hours forty-five minutes is enough to get from New Chitose into central Sapporo and back with lunch and shopping in between; push on to Asahikawa or Furano and you miss the flight home. It is easier to treat this as a fare where the itinerary is worked backwards from the hours rather than forwards from the destination.

Only the fare is cheap — everything charged separately

Peach states that the Bullet Return carries the conditions, charges and fees of its Minimum fare. Minimum is the cheapest of Peach’s fare types, renamed from Simple Peach in October 2024. What comes free and what does not is set out below.

ItemBullet Return (Minimum)StandardThe point

Cabin baggageFree, two pieces up to 7 kg in totalSameThe one row where the fare type makes no difference

Checked baggageCharged from the first piece, JPY 2,000One piece freeJPY 4,000 on a return. On a JPY 7,000-something route, more than half the total is baggage

Seat selectionBack JPY 800 / Middle JPY 1,200 / Front JPY 1,800Those three are freeThe Fast zone cannot be selected on Minimum at all

Flight changesNot permittedNot permittedOnly Standard Plus allows a change

Refund if you cancelThe cancellation fee equals the whole amountThe balance after the fee returns as Peach PointsMinimum returns nothing, not even points

Booking deadline23:59, 2 days before the travel date1 hour before departureYou cannot buy it on the day the idea occurs to you

Fuel surchargeNoneNoneTaxes, airport charges and the ticketing fee are still separate

All figures are domestic and assume the option is added on the website at the time of booking. International routes are split into Zones A to D with their own charge table.

The baggage row does the most damage. A checked bag up to 20 kg is JPY 2,000 a piece, so JPY 4,000 for a return. Pieces two to five are also JPY 2,000 each, and anything over 20 kg and up to 32 kg adds a JPY 1,900 excess-weight charge per piece. Check one suitcase on the JPY 7,600 Kansai–Narita return and the total passes 1.5 times the fare. Deciding how to pack inside the 7 kg cabin limit before choosing a route ends up cheaper than choosing the route first.

Seat selection is usually unnecessary on a day trip. Two people who want to sit together can take the Back zone at JPY 800 each and be done. Whether the Front zone at JPY 1,800 earns its keep on a two-hour sector, I would say it does not. The same JPY 1,800 spent on lunch where you are going leaves more behind.

Where you book changes the price too. A new booking on the website carries no fee; through the contact centre it is JPY 2,200 per person per sector, and at an airport counter JPY 3,300. Two people booking a return at the counter pay JPY 13,200 in fees, which is more than the fare. Payment can be made by credit card, at a convenience store or ATM (post office and bank), by internet banking, with Peach Points, by electronic money or by barcode payment, though what each channel accepts differs. On international routes, the ticketing fee is waived only where the payment currency is TWD on Taiwan sectors, HKD on Hong Kong sectors or SGD on Singapore sectors.

Where people trip up

The hours on the ground belong to the route, not to you

A same-day return means the outbound and the return are paired from the outset. You do not get to build your own combination of the first flight out and the last one back. That is why the official route card states the time at the destination: the 10 hours 45 minutes on Tokyo (Narita) to Sapporo (New Chitose) is the entire allowance for that route. If the airport is 40 minutes from town, the time you can actually spend is that figure minus 1 hour 20 minutes.

Past 23:59 two days out, the same flight becomes a different fare

The Minimum booking deadline is 23:59 two days before the travel date. Decide on a Friday night to go somewhere tomorrow and this fare is not among the options. Standard and Standard Plus remain on sale until one hour before the scheduled departure time, so seats do not vanish entirely at short notice — the price simply belongs to a different bracket. For a weekend day trip, treating Wednesday night as the real deadline is the safer habit.

Cancel and not even points come back

Cancel a Minimum fare by choice and the cancellation fee equals the fare plus the taxes and airport charges in full. There is no refund and no award of Peach Points. On Standard, a fee of JPY 1,000 up to 30 days before travel, or JPY 3,000 from 29 days out, is deducted and the remainder returns as points — which makes this the row where fare types differ most. The other direction is worth knowing: if the flight is cancelled or heavily delayed, every fare type is eligible for a refund including the charges and fees. Your reason and the airline’s reason are treated as opposites.

What you are left with when plans change

With neither changes nor refunds available, a Bullet Return you cannot use simply disappears. The same is true of seat selection and checked baggage already paid for: even on Standard Plus, where the flight can be changed, option charges are not refunded when you change. Which is the argument for not adding options in the first place.

There is also a threshold where the amount itself should change the decision. JPY 7,600 is easy to write off; an international pairing such as Haneda–Taipei at over JPY 20,000 return is not. International itineraries return the day after departure, so a night’s accommodation has been paid for as well. While the dates can still move, holding a changeable fare type and comparing the difference once they are fixed loses less overall. Which of Narita and Haneda you build the day around also changes how the late-night and early-morning ends of it work.

Take the round sold from 12:00 on 25 February 2026 to 23:59 on 14 July as an example: travel ran from 7 April to 16 July, with 17 domestic routes from JPY 7,000 return and 6 international routes from JPY 9,000 return, out of Tokyo (Haneda and Narita), Nagoya (Chubu), Osaka (Kansai), Fukuoka, Sendai and Okinawa (Naha). That round has finished selling, but the Bullet Return itself keeps reappearing with new travel windows, and the dedicated page was still live on 14 September 2026. Which period comes next can be followed on the record of airfare sales.

Some people are not suited to flying out and back in a day at all. Counting airport waiting time, the commitment runs past twelve hours, which is too much to ask of anyone travelling with small children or unsure how they will feel on the morning. Peach’s ordinary sales sell legs individually, so the days can be split. Work through how LCC fare types and baggage rules fit together first, then decide whether a one-way sale or a return-only fare suits the dates you have.

SOURCES

Peach Aviation — Bullet Return fare ↗Checked on 2026-09-14
Peach Aviation — fare types ↗Checked on 2026-09-14
Peach Aviation — charges and fees ↗Checked on 2026-09-14
Peach Aviation — Bullet Return for April to July travel (25 February 2026) ↗Checked on 2026-09-14

Source: the reference block above / Checked on 2026-09-14

Peach’s Bullet Return Fare: How to Buy Returns from JPY 7,000