[StarFlyer] Kitakyushu-Taipei (Taoyuan) Resumption Sale: From JPY 5,000 One Way

Lowest fare, one wayJPY 5,000and upKitakyushu → Taipei (Taoyuan). That is the fare alone: the fuel surcharge and taxes sit outside it, including JPY 3,000 of international tourist tax

Airline

StarFlyer (7G)

Routes

Kitakyushu – Taipei (Taoyuan), one route, three round trips a week

Sale period

2026-07-01 – 2027-03-27. No closing date was announced: seats sell until they are gone, and 27 March 2027 is the last date you can fly

Travel period

2026-09-02 – 2027-03-27

Deadline

Until the seats run out; still on sale as of 24 September 2026

Checked on

2026-09-24

StarFlyer restarted Kitakyushu to Taipei (Taoyuan) on 2 September 2026 and, from 10:00 on 1 July, opened a STAR COMET fare of JPY 5,000 one way from Kitakyushu and TWD 1,000 from Taipei. You can fly on it until 27 March 2027. The route had been suspended since March 2020, so this is the first service in six and a half years, at three round trips a week.

JPY 5,000 of fare, JPY 3,000 of departure tax, and a flight that leaves before midnight and returns at three in the morning

The JPY 5,000 is fare only. The fuel surcharge and taxes go on top, and any international ticket issued from 1 July 2026 carries JPY 3,000 of international tourist tax, up from JPY 1,000 until the end of that June. A fixed charge worth 60% of the fare lands on every departure, which bites hardest on exactly the cheap tickets that make the route worth taking.

The timings only exist because Kitakyushu Airport runs around the clock. Flight 7G801 leaves Kitakyushu at 23:40 and lands at Taoyuan at 01:10 on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays, shifting to 23:50 and 01:30 on the winter schedule. The return, 7G800, leaves Taoyuan at 03:00 and reaches Kitakyushu at 06:20 on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Fly out on a Friday night and back on Monday morning and you spend two nights in Taipei while using up only the weekend.

Where it goes wrong is the three hours after you land. The Airport MRT into Taipei does not start until 05:57, so a 01:10 arrival meets a closed station. The Kuo-Kuang 1819 bus runs all night and reaches Taipei Main Station in about 55 minutes for TWD 133 to 164, which is the route to plan around: book a room near Taipei Main Station first and the first night stops being a problem. The 03:00 departure on the way home works the same way — assume you will not sleep the night before.

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Source: StarFlyer’s international campaign page for Kitakyushu–Taipei and its international fare pages / the airline industry notice of the international tourist tax increase, 29 June 2026 / TRAICY, 2 September 2026 / Photo: S5A-0043, CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons) / Checked on 2026-09-24