Great1 stop · 6h
MNL to SGNVietnam
Ho Chi Minh City
$178
usually $255
−30%
Most monthly lows $193–$255. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · MNL → KIX
Manila to Osaka
Best fare, round trip
$309
−9%
below its usual $340
you keep $31
Found
- Depart
- Wed 17 Mar
- Return
- Sun 21 Mar
- Stay
- 4 nights
- Flight
- Nonstop · 3.5h
- Airline
Jetstar Japan
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $310 and $358. The drop beats 18% of measured fares on the board, over 5 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 March around $309 and peak in November near $424, 37% dearer, across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Jetstar Japan nonstop and takes about 3.5 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip. At $309 for 2,629 km each way, that works out to about $59 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $43 per 1,000 km typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Osaka, this fare ranks 2nd — 23% above the $251 from Hong Kong. For context, the middle fare among the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Manila is $206. The best time to be in Osaka: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 17% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $362 then versus $425 now, across 20 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 $260, on 10 Sep.
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.
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Mar, around $309
9% below the $340 typical fare
$424Nov, above the usual price. Compare November fares.$358Dec, above the usual price. Compare December fares.$310Feb ’27, below the usual price. Compare February fares.$309Mar, the cheapest month. Compare March fares.$341Apr, around the usual price. Compare April fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Manila to Osaka, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Ninoy Aquino (MNL) · Clark (CRK) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ≈3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈2,629 km each way
- Typical price
- $340 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Jetstar Japan
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
Good to know
MNL → KIX, answered.
Is $309 a good price for Manila to Osaka?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $340 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 Manila to Osaka?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Mar 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 MNL → 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 5 months of cached fares, Mar comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Manila to Osaka?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Jetstar Japan). The outbound leg runs around 3.5 hours.
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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