Route brief · TYO → SGN
Tokyo → Ho Chi Minh City
$386
−24% vs typical
seasonal median $505 · difference $119
Nov 26 – Dec 2 · 6 nights
Air China1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $408–$505
- Board rank
- Stronger than 66%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSGNHo 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)All routes into Ho Chi Minh CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Nov is the cheapest for TYO → SGN. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares bottom out in November around $386 and peak in September near $612 — a $226 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $386 for 4,323 km each way, that works out to about $45 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 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 — 2.2× the $172 we hold from Seoul. For context, the middle fare among the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of Tokyo is $340.
The 7 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 19% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $521 then versus $423 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 $382, on Nov 25.
- Fri, Sep 18$612
- Thu, Nov 26$386
- Fri, Nov 27$413
- Sat, Nov 28$419
- Sun, Nov 29$423
- Tue, Dec 22$505
- Sat, Dec 26$866
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Nov · around $386
24% below the $505 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Tokyo → Ho Chi Minh City · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND) ↔ Tan Son Nhat (SGN)
- Flight time
- ~10 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~4,323 km each way
- Typical price
- $505 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
TYO → SGN, answered.
Is $386 a good price for Tokyo to Ho Chi Minh City?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $505 round-trip. At $386 you're 24% below that, saving about $119, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Tokyo to Ho Chi Minh City?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 4 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 Tokyo to Ho Chi Minh City?
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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