How to Fly to Japan This Fall for Less Than $400 One Way
Is Japan one of your favorite destinations? You had to withdraw from the Tokyo Summer Olympics and now you want to try again, this time without the sport?
Whether you’ve been wanting to visit Japan for decades or just started reading this article, you’re in luck: a major airline recently cut fares on non-stop flights to Tokyo this fall. Here’s what you need to know to find and book tickets before they disappear.
How to Find Flights to Japan for Under $400 One Way
This pointer is taken from a recent The Points Guy article on the availability of non-stop flights between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Tokyo Haneda Airport on American Airlines for $287 one way in August, September and October 2023.
The extraordinarily affordable fares were a response to a relatively new entry into the market: Japanese low-cost airline Zipair , which offers one-way tickets from Los Angeles to Tokyo for less than $400 one-way over the same period.
To find American Airlines flights, The Points Guy recommends using Google Flights and then booking directly with the airlines. Along with Zipair and AA, you’ll also see reasonable one-way fares on non-stop flights between Los Angeles and Tokyo on Singapore Airlines, with prices hovering around the $400 mark. After that, Delta shows up with equivalent route fares starting at around $560.
Zipair currently has routes from Tokyo-Narita International Airport to three US cities: Los Angeles, Honolulu, and San Jose, California. The airline also has additional routes in Asia, between Tokyo-Narita International Airport, Seoul-Incheon International Airport, Bangkok-Swan Nabum International Airport and Changi-Singapore Changi International Airport.