Route brief · LIS → KIX
Lisbon → Osaka
$872
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 25 – Oct 13 · 18 nights
Qatar Airways3 stops
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 3 stops and takes about 17 hours outbound, on a 18-night trip — ticketed under Qatar Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $872 for 11,092 km each way, that works out to about $39 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 13th — 1.8× the $498 we hold from San Francisco. For context, the middle fare among the 25 routes of similar length we watch out of Lisbon is $789. We have 3 months 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 8 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,118 then versus $1,038 now, across 8 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 $817, on Nov 26.
- Tue, Sep 1$1,215
- Fri, Sep 25$872
- Sat, Sep 26$1,046
- Sun, Sep 27$964
- Mon, Sep 28$987
- Thu, Oct 22$1,146
- Sat, Oct 31$1,030
- Wed, Nov 18$1,134
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
- Humberto Delgado (LIS) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ~17 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~11,092 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Qatar Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
LIS → KIX, answered.
How far in advance should I book LIS → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Lisbon to Osaka?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Qatar Airways. 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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