Route brief · HOU → KIX
Houston → Osaka
$988
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 18 – Nov 15 · 28 nights
ANA1 stop
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 one stop and takes about 15.5 hours outbound, on a 28-night trip — ticketed under ANA, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $988 for 11,118 km each way, that works out to about $44 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 30 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Osaka, this fare ranks 20th — 2.0× the $498 we hold from San Francisco. For context, the middle fare among the 34 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston is $914. 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.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $995 then versus $988 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 $984, on Oct 18.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ~15.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~11,118 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- ANA
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
HOU → KIX, answered.
How far in advance should I book HOU → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Houston to Osaka?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under ANA. 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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