RareNonstop · 1.5h
ZRH to ROMItaly
Rome
$60
usually $100
−40%
Most monthly lows $69–$102. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · ZRH → TYO
Zurich to Tokyo
Best fare, round trip
$718
−17%
below its usual $865
you keep $147
Found
- Depart
- Sat 10 Apr
- Return
- Thu 22 Apr
- Stay
- 12 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 17.5h
- Airline
Air India
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $777 and $989. The drop beats 47% of measured fares on the board, over 9 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
JapanTokyoNeon canyons, 3am ramen, and the world’s most polite chaos. The yen is kind to visitors right now.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsNarita (NRT) · Haneda (HND)Every route into TokyoFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in April around $718 and peak in July near $1,130, 57% dearer, across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 17.5 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip — ticketed under Air India, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $718 for 9,578 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 33 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Tokyo, this fare ranks 19th — 23% above the $584 from Dubai. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of Zurich, where the middle fare is $775. The best time to be in Tokyo: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,067 then versus $995 now, across 22 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 $718, on 10 Apr '27.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 14 of 107 days priced, from 83 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
Sunday 1 November: $1k. Compare fares from this day.2345678Monday 9 November: $822. Compare fares from this day.101112Friday 13 November: $1k. Compare fares from this day.14Sunday 15 November: $922. Compare fares from this day.Monday 16 November: $1k. Compare fares from this day.17181920Saturday 21 November: $969. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 22 November: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.2324252627Saturday 28 November: $841. Compare fares from this day.2930
December 2026
123456Monday 7 December: $897. Compare fares from this day.89101112131415161718192021222324Friday 25 December: $1.4k. Compare fares from this day.2627Monday 28 December: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.293031
January 2027
1234567Friday 8 January: $777. Compare fares from this day.910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Apr, around $718
17% below the $865 typical fare
$989Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$822Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$897Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$777Jan ’27, below the usual price. Compare January fares.$866Mar, around the usual price. Compare March fares.$718Apr, the cheapest month. Compare April fares.$720May, below the usual price. Compare May fares.$1130Jul, above the usual price. Compare July fares.$1052Sep, above the usual price. Compare September fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Zurich to Tokyo, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Zurich (ZRH) ↔ Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND)
- Flight time
- ≈17.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈9,578 km each way
- Typical price
- $865 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air India
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
Good to know
ZRH → TYO, answered.
Is $718 a good price for Zurich to Tokyo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $865 round-trip and this fare is 17% 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 Zurich to Tokyo?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Apr comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Tokyo are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book ZRH → Tokyo?
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 9 months of cached fares, Apr comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Zurich to Tokyo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air India. 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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