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 → IST
Tokyo to Istanbul
Best fare, round trip
$772
−9%
below its usual $850
you keep $78
Found
- Depart
- Mon 26 Oct
- Return
- Tue 10 Nov
- Stay
- 15 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 17h
- Airline
Air Premia
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $797 and $863. The drop beats 18% of measured fares on the board, over 6 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
TürkiyeIstanbulTwo continents, one skyline of minarets. Turkish Airlines’ mega-hub means constant fare battles.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsIstanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)Every route into IstanbulFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in December around $645 and peak in April near $962, 49% dearer, across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 17 hours outbound, on a 15-night trip — ticketed under Air Premia, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $772 for 8,943 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Istanbul, this fare ranks 18th — 2.0× the $390 we hold from Seoul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 43 routes of similar length we watch out of Tokyo, where the middle fare is $946. The best time to be in Istanbul: Apr–May · Sep–Oct.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 20 Dec, $645
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $949 then versus $929 now, across 17 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 $645, on 20 Dec.
October 2026
131415161718Monday 19 October: $851, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.202122232425Monday 26 October: $772, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 27 October: $747, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.282930Saturday 31 October: $1.1k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.
November 2026
1Monday 2 November: $1k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.345Friday 6 November: $1k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 7 November: $929, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 8 November: $1.1k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Monday 9 November: $1k, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 10 November: $1.1k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 11 November: $751, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 12 November: $972, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.131415Monday 16 November: $987, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.17Wednesday 18 November: $863, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 19 November: $932, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.20212223Tuesday 24 November: $903, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.252627282930
December 2026
Tuesday 1 December: $669, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 2 December: $749, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.3456Monday 7 December: $810, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 8 December: $810, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.910111213Monday 14 December: $807, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.1516171819Sunday 20 December: $645, the cheapest day in view. Compare fares from this day.21222324Friday 25 December: $1.1k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.2627Monday 28 December: $1.2k, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.293031
January 2027
12345678Saturday 9 January: $944, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.10Monday 11 January: $773, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.1213141516171819202122232425262728293031
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualCached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026 · bands from 119 tracked fares
Cheapest in Dec, around $645
24% below the $850 typical fare
$747Oct, below the usual price. Compare October fares.$751Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$645Dec, the cheapest month. Compare December fares.$773Jan ’27, below the usual price. Compare January fares.$851Mar, around the usual price. Compare March fares.$962Apr, above the usual price. Compare April fares.$797May, below the usual price. Compare May fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Tokyo to Istanbul, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND) ↔ Istanbul (IST) · Sabiha Gökçen (SAW)
- Flight time
- ≈17 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,943 km each way
- Typical price
- $850 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air Premia
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
Good to know
TYO → IST, answered.
Is $772 a good price for Tokyo to Istanbul?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $850 round-trip and this fare is 9% 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 Istanbul?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Istanbul are Apr–May · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book TYO → Istanbul?
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 6 months of cached fares, Dec 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 Istanbul?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Premia. 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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