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.</PARAGRAPH> <PHOTO> <TABLE WIDTH='250' ALIGN='RIGHT' BORDER='0'> <TR> <TD><IMG ALT='News photo' BORDER='0' SRC='../images/photos2007/nn20071009f1a.jpg' WIDTH='250' HEIGHT='196'/></TD> </TR> <TR> <TD><FONT SIZE='1'><B>South Korean tourists Kim Hyang Min –

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. KYODO PHOTO

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.

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