To provide a small inexpensive band type packaging apparatus with which a stable fastening force can be obtained only by using a single motor as a source of driving power without employing an electromagnetic clutch.

In the semiautomatic band type packaging apparatus that carries out packaging by feeding/pulling back a band and cutting/fusion-bonding the same, a feeding/fastening mechanism 6 that makes possible the swinging of one of a pair of band transport rollers and a self-maintaining mechanism 7 for the pulled-back band are provided on a part of the band's moving path.