Rare1 stop · 12h
IST to YULCanada
Montreal
$462
usually $775
−40%
Most monthly lows $690–$798. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
Flights · IST → KIX
Istanbul to Osaka
Best fare, round trip
$708
−9%
below its usual $780
you keep $72
Found
- Depart
- Mon 8 Feb
- Return
- Tue 16 Feb
- Stay
- 8 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 13.5h
- Airline
Qatar Airways
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $716 and $902. The drop beats 18% of measured fares on the board, over 10 observed months.
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.
Fares bottom out in February around $708 and peak in April near $1,015, 43% dearer, across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Qatar Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $708 for 8,746 km each way, that works out to about $40 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 25 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Osaka, this fare ranks 6th — 22% above the $582 from Brussels. For context, the middle fare among the 34 routes of similar length we watch out of Istanbul is $688. The best time to be in Osaka: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 11 Jan '27, $711
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 8% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $906 then versus $982 now, across 22 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 $598, on 20 Dec.
October 2026
1718192021Thursday 22 October: $2.3k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Friday 23 October: $1.1k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.24Sunday 25 October: $1.1k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Monday 26 October: $997, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.27Wednesday 28 October: $902, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.29Friday 30 October: $1.1k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.31
November 2026
12Tuesday 3 November: $992, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.4567Sunday 8 November: $930, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Monday 9 November: $1.3k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.10Wednesday 11 November: $1.1k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.1213141516Tuesday 17 November: $847, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 18 November: $999, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.192021Sunday 22 November: $1k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Monday 23 November: $716, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.24252627282930
December 2026
Tuesday 1 December: $965, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.23456Monday 7 December: $733, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.891011121314151617181920Monday 21 December: $895, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.222324Friday 25 December: $898, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.262728293031
January 2027
Friday 1 January: $1.1k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 2 January: $987, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 3 January: $859, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Monday 4 January: $982, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.5678910Monday 11 January: $711, the cheapest day in view. Compare fares from this day.121314151617181920Thursday 21 January: $764, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.2223242526Wednesday 27 January: $736, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.28293031
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualCached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026 · bands from 128 tracked fares
Cheapest in Feb, around $708
9% below the $780 typical fare
$902Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$716Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$733Dec, below the usual price. Compare December fares.$711Jan ’27, below the usual price. Compare January fares.$708Feb, the cheapest month. Compare February fares.$782Mar, around the usual price. Compare March fares.$1015Apr, above the usual price. Compare April fares.$870May, above the usual price. Compare May fares.$751Jul, around the usual price. Compare July fares.$938Sep, above the usual price. Compare September fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Istanbul to Osaka, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ≈13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,746 km each way
- Typical price
- $780 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Qatar Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
Good to know
IST → KIX, answered.
Is $708 a good price for Istanbul to Osaka?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $780 round-trip and this fare is 9% under it. 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 Istanbul to Osaka?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Feb comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Osaka are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book IST → 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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 10 months of cached fares, Feb comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Istanbul to Osaka?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Qatar Airways. 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 17 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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