Route brief · STO → TYO
Stockholm → Tokyo
$516
−34% vs typical
seasonal median $780 · difference $264
Nov 25 – Dec 18 · 23 nights
Air China1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $716–$826
- Board rank
- Stronger than 84%
- Route sample
- 10 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 10 months, Nov is the cheapest for STO → TYO. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in November around $516 and peak in October near $867 — a $351 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 23-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $516 for 8,169 km each way, that works out to about $32 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 23 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Tokyo, this fare ranks 2nd — 4% above the $496 from San Francisco. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of Stockholm, where the middle fare is $623.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 25 · $519 (43% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $876 then versus $886 now, across 7 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 $503, on Nov 22.
September 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $516
34% below the $780 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Stockholm → Tokyo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Arlanda (ARN) · Bromma (BMA) · Skavsta (NYO) ↔ Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND)
- Flight time
- ~12 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,169 km each way
- Typical price
- $780 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
STO → TYO, answered.
Is $516 a good price for Stockholm to Tokyo?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $780 round-trip. At $516 you're 34% below that, saving about $264, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Stockholm to Tokyo?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 STO → 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 10 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Stockholm to Tokyo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. 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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