Route brief · HOU → TYO
Houston → Tokyo
$691
−31% vs typical
seasonal median $995 · difference $304
Nov 10 – Nov 19 · 9 nights
ZIPAIRNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $840–$1,188
- Board rank
- Stronger than 80%
- Route sample
- 5 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 5 months, Nov is the cheapest for HOU → TYO. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in November around $691 and peak in August near $1,333 — a $642 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies ZIPAIR nonstop and takes about 14 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip. At $691 for 10,739 km each way, that works out to about $32 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 31 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Tokyo, this fare ranks 14th — 59% above the $434 from New York. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston, where the middle fare is $901.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 14% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,019 then versus $872 now, across 6 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 $642, on Sep 30.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 10 of 101 days priced, from 11 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Nov · around $691
31% below the $995 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Houston → Tokyo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND)
- Flight time
- ~14 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,739 km each way
- Typical price
- $995 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- ZIPAIR
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
HOU → TYO, answered.
Is $691 a good price for Houston to Tokyo?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $995 round-trip. At $691 you're 31% below that, saving about $304, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Houston to Tokyo?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 HOU → 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, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Houston to Tokyo?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (ZIPAIR). The outbound leg runs around 14 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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