Route brief · SHA → TYO
Shanghai → Tokyo
$302
−8% vs typical
seasonal median $330 · difference $28
Dec 29 – Jan 10 '27 · 12 nights
Jetstar JapanNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $311–$353
- Board rank
- Stronger than 14%
- Route sample
- 12 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 12 months, Dec is the cheapest for SHA → TYO. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in December around $302 and peak in August near $407 — a $105 spread across the 12 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Jetstar Japan nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip. At $302 for 1,754 km each way, that works out to about $86 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Dec 29 · $302 (14% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $351 then versus $348 now, across 6 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 $277, on Nov 2.
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Cheapest in Dec · around $302
8% below the $330 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Shanghai → Tokyo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,754 km each way
- Typical price
- $330 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Jetstar Japan
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
SHA → TYO, answered.
Is $302 a good price for Shanghai to Tokyo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $330 round-trip and this fare is 8% under it, about $28. 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 Shanghai to Tokyo?
Across 12 months of cached-fare history, Dec 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 SHA → 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 12 months of cached fares, Dec comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Shanghai to Tokyo?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Jetstar Japan). The outbound leg runs around 3 hours.
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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