
SEL to ISTTürkiye
Istanbul
$390
usually $640
−39%
Most monthly lows $515–$679. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
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Flights · SEL → TYO
Best fare, round trip
$166
−26%
below its usual $225
you keep $59
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $211 and $227. The drop beats 69% of measured fares on the board, over 12 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
JapanTokyoNeon 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)Every route into TokyoFare seasonality
Fares bottom out in October around $163 and peak in February near $252, 55% dearer, across the 12 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies T'way Air nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 1-night trip. At $166 for 1,149 km each way, that works out to about $72 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 per 1,000 km typical of short-haul fares here. The best time to be in Tokyo: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 27 Oct, $163
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on 8 Aug — $233 then versus $234 now, across 18 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 $92, on 16 Sep.
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Cheapest in Oct, around $163
28% below the $225 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Seoul to Tokyo, from cached prices.
Route facts
Good to know
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $225 round-trip. At $166 you're 26% below that, which we rate good for this route.
Across 12 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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.
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 12 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (T'way Air). The outbound leg runs around 2.5 hours.
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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