ExceptionalNonstop · 2.5h
ATH to WAWPoland
Warsaw
$48
usually $125
−62%
Most monthly lows $85–$133. Cheaper than every other month on record (6).
Flights · ATH → TYO
Athens to Tokyo
Best fare, round trip
$790
−19%
below its usual $975
you keep $185
Found
- Depart
- Sat 23 Jan
- Return
- Sun 31 Jan
- Stay
- 8 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 20h
- Airline
Ethiopian
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $936 and $1,006. The drop beats 52% of measured fares on the board, over 5 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
JapanTokyoNeon 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)Every route into TokyoFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in January around $790 and peak in March near $1,206, 53% dearer, across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 20 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Ethiopian, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $790 for 9,503 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 33 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Tokyo, this fare ranks 26th — 35% above the $584 from Dubai. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 30 routes of similar length we watch out of Athens, where the middle fare is $838. The best time to be in Tokyo: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $989 then versus $971 now, across 19 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 $633, on 16 Sep.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Jan, around $790
19% below the $975 typical fare
$1006Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$936Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$790Jan ’27, the cheapest month. Compare January fares.$1206Mar, above the usual price. Compare March fares.$973Aug, around the usual price. Compare August fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Athens to Tokyo, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Eleftherios Venizelos (ATH) ↔ Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND)
- Flight time
- ≈20 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈9,503 km each way
- Typical price
- $975 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ethiopian
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
Good to know
ATH → TYO, answered.
Is $790 a good price for Athens to Tokyo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $975 round-trip and this fare is 19% under it. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Athens to Tokyo?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Jan 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 ATH → 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 5 months of cached fares, Jan comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Athens to Tokyo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ethiopian. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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