Route brief · TYO → PEK
Tokyo → Beijing
$302
−25% vs typical
seasonal median $405 · difference $103
Oct 1 – Oct 11 · 10 nights
Spring JapanNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $388–$441
- Board rank
- Stronger than 69%
- Route sample
- 10 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPEKBeijingImperial scale — the Forbidden City, the Wall an hour north, and a visa-free transit window worth checking.Best windowSep–Oct · Apr–MayAirportsCapital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)All routes into BeijingWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 10 months, Oct is the cheapest for TYO → PEK. Best time to be there: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Fares bottom out in October around $302 and peak in March near $563 — a $261 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Spring Japan nonstop and takes about 4.5 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip. At $302 for 2,076 km each way, that works out to about $73 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this fare ranks 3rd — 41% above the $214 from Guangzhou.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 1 · $305 (35% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $467 then versus $435 now, across 8 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 $305, on Oct 1.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $302
25% below the $405 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Tokyo → Beijing · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~4.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,076 km each way
- Typical price
- $405 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Spring Japan
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
TYO → PEK, answered.
Is $302 a good price for Tokyo to Beijing?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $405 round-trip. At $302 you're 25% below that, saving about $103, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Tokyo to Beijing?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Beijing are Sep–Oct · Apr–May — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book TYO → Beijing?
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, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Tokyo to Beijing?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Spring Japan). The outbound leg runs around 4.5 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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