Route brief · LAX → KIX
Los Angeles → Osaka
$868
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 21 – Sep 28 · 7 nights
Philippine Airlines1 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 18.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Philippine Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $868 for 9,226 km each way, that works out to about $47 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 32 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Osaka, this fare ranks 15th — 1.7× the $498 we hold from San Francisco. For context, the middle fare among the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles is $700. We have 2 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 3 days 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 — $912 then versus $906 now, across 4 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 $868, on Nov 15.
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
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ~18.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,226 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Philippine Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
LA → KIX, answered.
How far in advance should I book LA → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Los Angeles to Osaka?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Philippine Airlines. 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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