Route brief · TYO → KIX
Tokyo → Osaka
$61
−13% vs typical
seasonal median $70 · difference $9
Nov 25 – Dec 1 · 6 nights
PeachNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $62–$79
- Board rank
- Stronger than 31%
- Route sample
- 8 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefKIXOsakaJapan with the volume up — street food, blunt humour, and Kyoto and Nara both under an hour by train.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsKansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)All routes into OsakaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 8 months, Nov is the cheapest for TYO → KIX. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in November around $61 and peak in April near $112 — a $51 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Peach nonstop and takes about 1.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 25 · $61 (34% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 12% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $98 then versus $86 now, across 4 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 $61, on Nov 25.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $61
13% below the $70 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Tokyo → Osaka · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ~1.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~424 km each way
- Typical price
- $70 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Peach
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
TYO → KIX, answered.
Is $61 a good price for Tokyo to Osaka?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $70 round-trip and this fare is 13% under it, about $9. 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 Osaka?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Osaka are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book TYO → Osaka?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 8 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 Osaka?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Peach). The outbound leg runs around 1.5 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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