How to Get a Three-Day Hold With Your Dummy Return Flight

The more complex routing gets you two free domestic flights within Japan so you don't have to pay for the Tokyo to Osaka and Osaka back to Tokyo. You might even decide that like hey I maybe want to do half of this complex booking where I'll connect into Osaka and instead of taking that flight from Osaka to Tokyo I'd rather take the bullet train and see the views which is pretty awesome. The key here is to not actually ticket and book and finalize that itinerary because you're also trying to insert connections and stopovers.