Route brief · AMS → TYO
Amsterdam → Tokyo
$659
−21% vs typical
seasonal median $830 · difference $171
Dec 4 – Dec 11 · 7 nights
China Southern1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $732–$836
- Board rank
- Stronger than 58%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefTYOTokyoNeon canyons, 3am ramen, and the world’s most polite chaos. The yen is kind to visitors right now.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsNarita (NRT) · Haneda (HND)All routes into TokyoWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Dec is the cheapest for AMS → TYO. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in December around $659 and peak in April near $930 — a $271 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under China Southern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $659 for 9,288 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 33 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Tokyo, this fare ranks 12th — 52% above the $434 from New York. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Amsterdam, where the middle fare is $748.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Dec 4 · $659 (31% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $922 then versus $892 now, across 6 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $659, on Dec 4.
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Cheapest in Dec · around $659
21% below the $830 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Amsterdam → Tokyo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schiphol (AMS) ↔ Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND)
- Flight time
- ~13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,288 km each way
- Typical price
- $830 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Southern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
AMS → TYO, answered.
Is $659 a good price for Amsterdam to Tokyo?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $830 round-trip. At $659 you're 21% below that, saving about $171, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Amsterdam to Tokyo?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Tokyo are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AMS → Tokyo?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 9 months of cached fares, Dec comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Amsterdam to Tokyo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Southern. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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