Good1 stop · 10h
HOU to HNLUnited States
Honolulu
$593
usually $825
−28%
Most monthly lows $726–$825. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · HOU → KIX
Houston to Osaka
Best fare, round trip
$1,392
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Fri 20 Nov
- Return
- Mon 30 Nov
- Stay
- 10 nights
- Flight
- 3 stops · 20.5h
- Airline
Frontier Airlines
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
JapanOsakaJapan 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)Every route into OsakaFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 20.5 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip — ticketed under Frontier Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,392 for 11,118 km each way, that works out to about $63 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 27 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Osaka, this fare ranks 25th — 2.4× the $582 we hold from Brussels. For context, the middle fare among the 36 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston is $901. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Osaka: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 40% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $995 then versus $1,392 now, across 7 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 18 Oct.
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 07 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ≈20.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈11,118 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Frontier Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
Good to know
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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Houston to Osaka?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Frontier Airlines. 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 8 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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