Route brief · LAX → TYO
Los Angeles → Tokyo
$555
−26% vs typical
seasonal median $745 · difference $190
Sep 23 – Oct 1 · 8 nights
Philippine Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $687–$947
- Board rank
- Stronger than 71%
- Route sample
- 9 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 9 months, Sep is the cheapest for LA → TYO. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in September around $555 and peak in March near $1,049 — a $494 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 19 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Philippine Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $555 for 8,819 km each way, that works out to about $31 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 4th — 28% above the $434 from New York. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 39 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles, where the middle fare is $700.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 8 · $675 (25% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $895 then versus $905 now, across 5 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 $578, on Oct 4.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $555
26% below the $745 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Los Angeles → Tokyo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND)
- Flight time
- ~19 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,819 km each way
- Typical price
- $745 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Philippine Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
LA → TYO, answered.
Is $555 a good price for Los Angeles to Tokyo?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $745 round-trip. At $555 you're 26% below that, saving about $190, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Sep 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 LA → 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 9 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Los Angeles to Tokyo?
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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