New Year, Osechi & First-Sale Points | Save on Osechi Booking, Lucky Bags & New-Year Shopping
New Year, osechi & first-sale points | save on osechi booking, lucky bags and New-Year shopping
The New Year period is a season when spending clusters all at once — osechi (New-Year feast) bookings, New-Year ingredients, lucky bags and first-sale shopping. Osechi and lucky bags are high-priced, so points pay off well here. The tricks: route osechi and lucky-bag online bookings through a point site, use early-bird discounts, also target online lucky bags and first sales via routing, and pay with a cashback-earning method. Because it's a once-a-year big outlay, the gap from routing and payment cashback compounds. This article lays out New Year / first-sale points. For year-end sales, see the year-end big-ticket guide; for gifts, the gifts & celebrations guide; for ingredients, the meat & seafood guide.
Where you save at New Year / first sales
| Situation | How you gain | Goal |
|---|---|---|
| Osechi online booking | Book via routing + early discount | Double win on high price & early discount |
| Lucky bags / first sales | Route online lucky bags / first sales | Turn good deals into cashback |
| New-Year ingredients | Route meat, seafood, etc. online | Meat & seafood guide |
| Cashback payment | Pay with a target method | Stack on the total |
* Cashback rates, routing deals and early-bird periods vary by shop. Check each shop and Pointnavi for the latest. For choosing a shared-points program, see the shared-points comparison guide.
New Year / first-sale points: step-by-step
- ① Book osechi online via routing + early discountOsechi is high-priced and often has early-bird discounts. Route through a point site before booking and combine with the early discount for a double win.
- ② Route online lucky bags / first sales tooRoute online lucky bags and first-sale events through a point site before buying to turn them into cashback. Year-end guide.
- ③ Route New-Year ingredients online tooRoute New-Year ingredients like meat, seafood and drinks through a point site. Meat & seafood guide.
- ④ Pay with a cashback methodThe total tends to be large, so stack cashback with your main ecosystem's target payment. Tap-payment guide, expiry-prevention guide.
The core of New Year / first-sale points is "make the high-priced New-Year outlays like osechi and lucky bags cost-effective via online routing, early discounts and payment cashback." Osechi especially benefits from the triple stack of early discount + routing + payment cashback. Lucky bags don't miss cashback if you route the online booking. That said, check a lucky bag's contents and total, and judge whether you actually need it. Don't stock up on things you don't need "because it's a deal" — enjoy New-Year prep with a plan.
Cautions
- Book osechi early: Popular osechi can sell out early. Check the early-bird deadline and delivery date and book early — and don't forget to route then.
- Check a lucky bag's contents and total: A lucky bag may look like a "deal," but if it has many things you don't need, it ends up costing more. Check whether the contents are known and whether it's worth the total.
- Watch out for forgetting to route: Osechi, lucky-bag and ingredient online purchases earn zero cashback without routing through a point site. The larger the total, the more a miss hurts. Pointnavi.
- Consolidate points and use within the deadline: New-Year bulk buying earns large point grants too. Consolidate into your main ecosystem and use them up within the deadline. Expiry-prevention guide.
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This article was written from publicly available information on each point site as of May 2026. Cashback rates, campaign terms, and redemption rules can change without notice — always check each site's official page for the latest. This site uses each point site's referral program, but going through a referral link never changes the rate you receive.