Route brief · CHI → KIX
Chicago → Osaka
$1,417
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Jul 1 '27 – Jul 15 '27 · 14 nights
Cathay Pacific2 stops
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefKIXOsakaJapan with the volume up — street food, blunt humour, and Kyoto and Nara both under an hour by train.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsKansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)All routes into OsakaWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Osaka: Mar–May · Oct–Nov. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 20.5 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Cathay Pacific, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,417 for 10,470 km each way, that works out to about $68 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 31 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Osaka, this fare ranks 30th — 2.8× the $498 we hold from San Francisco. For context, the middle fare among the 26 routes of similar length we watch out of Chicago is $793. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
Route facts
- Airports
- O’Hare (ORD) · Midway (MDW) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ~20.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,470 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Cathay Pacific
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
CHI → KIX, answered.
How far in advance should I book CHI → Osaka?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Chicago to Osaka?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Cathay Pacific. 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 August 30). 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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