Route brief · CAN → TYO
Guangzhou → Tokyo
$315
−5% vs typical
seasonal median $330 · difference $15
Mar 16 '27 – Mar 19 '27 · 3 nights
Japan AirlinesNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $327–$360
- Board rank
- Stronger than 6%
- 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, Mar is the cheapest for CAN → TYO. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in March around $315 and peak in July near $425 — a $110 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Japan Airlines nonstop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $315 for 2,898 km each way, that works out to about $54 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Tokyo, this fare ranks 3rd — 39% above the $227 from Manila. For context, the middle fare among the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Guangzhou is $238.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 12 · $329 (18% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $393 then versus $393 now, across 5 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 $329, on Nov 18.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Mar · around $315
5% below the $330 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Guangzhou → Tokyo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,898 km each way
- Typical price
- $330 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Japan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
CAN → TYO, answered.
Is $315 a good price for Guangzhou to Tokyo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $330 round-trip and this fare is 5% under it, about $15. 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 Guangzhou to Tokyo?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Mar 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 CAN → 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, Mar comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Guangzhou to Tokyo?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Japan Airlines). The outbound leg runs around 4 hours.
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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