Cheap Flights To Japan
Cheap Flights To Japan
The best way to find cheap flights to Japan is online with a flight comparison booking site or with an online travel agent. Try our Japan flight comparison wizard below.
Airfares to Japan are seasonal with the highest prices being around the Japanese holiday periods of Golden Week in late April and early May and Obon in mid-August, as well as Christmas and New Year.
Flights into Tokyo's two major airports of Narita and Haneda are generally cheaper than the more regional Kansai International Airport (KIX), Chubu International Airport (Centrair), Fukuoka Airport or Chitose Airport (Sapporo).
ANA, JAL, Asiana Airlines, British Airways, American Airlines, Air Asia, Air Canada, Eva Air, Cathay Pacific, Shanghai Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Korean Air, Thai Airways, China Airlines, Air China, China Eastern, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines and Malaysia Airlines all fly into Haneda, which can be reached in rapid time on trains run by Tokyo Monorail and Keihin Railways.
For flights to continental Asia, Kagoshima, Nagasaki, and Kumamoto airports (all in Kyushu) are very convenient.
In recent years, travel costs between the US to Japan have dropped; this may change however as a result of rising oil prices. The major carriers are All Nippon Airlines (ANA), Japan Airlines (JAL), United Airlines, Northwest, and Korean Air. The non-Japanese airlines tend to be a bit lower priced, with service to match. To Canada, Air Canada has low-cost flights from Vancouver and Toronto.
Air France, JAL, Emirates, British Airways (BA), Virgin, Finnair, Swiss and ANA operate direct flights to Tokyo from Europe. Lufthansa, JAL, Finnair, ANA also fly non-stop to Kansai International Airport (KIX) in Osaka. The new Nagoya airport, Chubu, has also attracted considerable interest because of its (relatively) low landing fees of 655,000 yen for a 767. Cathay Pacific, Austrian Airlines, Emirates, Alitalia, Korean Air, Asiana Airlines, Thai Air, Qatar, Singapore Airlines, Malaysian Air, KLM and Aeroflot also offer connecting flights to mainland Europe.
Most Asian countries have direct daily flights to Japan. Bangkok, Incheon (Seoul), Singapore, and Hong Kong are the primary hubs. Kansai has direct flights to Kathmandu, and Chubu has many flights to cities in Asia, though presently few direct flights to Europe except to Helsinki with Finnair.
To the antipodes, Cathay Pacific, Garuda, Quantas, Air New Zealand and JAL have flights to Australia. Malaysian Airlines and Thai Airlines also fly to New Zealand.
Discounts are available on domestic flights are widely available.
Multilingual travel agents are common in any large Japanese city. HIS and NO. 1 are among the lowest priced agents.