RareNonstop · 3h
TYO to SELSouth Korea
Seoul
$112
usually $225
−50%
Most monthly lows $190–$228. Cheaper than every other month on record (9).
Flights · TYO → SGN
Tokyo to Ho Chi Minh City
Best fare, round trip
$374
−4%
below its usual $390
you keep $16
Found
- Depart
- Thu 10 Dec
- Return
- Tue 15 Dec
- Stay
- 5 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 8.5h
- Airline
China Southern
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $384 and $400. The drop beats 3% of measured fares on the board, over 5 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
VietnamHo Chi Minh CityFaster and richer than Hanoi, and the usual door to the Mekong Delta and the southern coast.Best windowDec–MarAirportsTan Son Nhat (SGN)Every route into Ho Chi Minh CityFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in October around $368 and peak in April near $499, 36% dearer, across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8.5 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under China Southern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $374 for 4,323 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $43 per 1,000 km typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Ho Chi Minh City, this fare ranks 3rd — 1.9× the $196 we hold from Seoul. For context, the middle fare among the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of Tokyo is $351. The best time to be in Ho Chi Minh City: Dec–Mar.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 17% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $521 then versus $432 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 $339, on 8 Sep.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 111 days priced, from 66 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
13141516171819Tuesday 20 October: $368. Compare fares from this day.212223242526Tuesday 27 October: $400. Compare fares from this day.28293031
November 2026
123456789Tuesday 10 November: $402. Compare fares from this day.1112131415161718192021222324252627282930
December 2026
January 2027
12Sunday 3 January: $541. Compare fares from this day.Monday 4 January: $485. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 5 January: $458. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 6 January: $384. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 7 January: $420. Compare fares from this day.Friday 8 January: $413. Compare fares from this day.910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Oct, around $368
6% below the $390 typical fare
$368Oct, the cheapest month. Compare October fares.$402Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$374Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$384Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$392Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$499Apr, above the usual price. Compare April fares.
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualPress a month to compare its fares
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Tokyo to Ho Chi Minh City, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND) ↔ Tan Son Nhat (SGN)
- Flight time
- ≈8.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈4,323 km each way
- Typical price
- $390 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Southern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
Good to know
TYO → SGN, answered.
Is $374 a good price for Tokyo to Ho Chi Minh City?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $390 round-trip and this fare is 4% 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 Tokyo to Ho Chi Minh City?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Ho Chi Minh City are Dec–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book TYO → Ho Chi Minh City?
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, Oct comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Tokyo to Ho Chi Minh City?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Southern. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
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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