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Flights to Tokyo: how far it is, and from where

Tokyo sits at 35.5°N, 139.8°E, served by Tokyo Haneda (HND) and Narita (NRT). Below are 21 routes into it, with the great circle distance and an estimated flying time for each.

This page is about distance and geography — there are no fares or schedules on it. For tickets, use a booking site; for how far it actually is and what you fly over to get there, you’re in the right place.

Routes here
21
in the catalogue
Nearest
820 km
from Sapporo
Furthest
10,830 km
from New York
Airports
2
HND · NRT

How far Tokyo is from everywhere else

Great circle distance between the airports, and an estimate of the time in the air. Every row links to the route in full.

FromDistanceEstimatedDirection
SapporoCTS820 km1h 31mbarely any time shift
SeoulICN1,210 km2h 00mbarely any time shift
NahaOKA1,555 km2h 26mbarely any time shift
ShanghaiPVG1,738 km2h 40meastbound — the harder direction
TaipeiTPE2,122 km3h 08meastbound — the harder direction
BangkokBKK4,590 km6h 12meastbound — the harder direction
SingaporeSIN5,300 km7h 05meastbound — the harder direction
HonoluluHNL6,191 km8h 12mwestbound — the easier direction
VancouverYVR7,503 km9h 49mwestbound — the easier direction
SeattleSEA7,711 km10h 05mwestbound — the easier direction
SydneySYD7,818 km10h 13mbarely any time shift
HelsinkiHEL7,829 km10h 14meastbound — the harder direction
San FranciscoSFO8,285 km10h 48mwestbound — the easier direction
Los AngelesLAX8,753 km11h 23mwestbound — the easier direction
Los AngelesLAX8,812 km11h 27mwestbound — the easier direction
IstanbulIST8,980 km11h 40meastbound — the harder direction
LondonLHR9,591 km12h 25meastbound — the harder direction
LondonLHR9,592 km12h 25meastbound — the harder direction
ParisCDG9,708 km12h 34meastbound — the harder direction
RomeFCO9,892 km12h 48meastbound — the harder direction
New YorkJFK10,830 km13h 58mwestbound — the easier direction

What Tokyo adds to a map

Tokyo puts a pin in Japan, and Asia is one of the seven continents — the coarsest and most useful measure of how much of the world a flight map actually covers. The furthest route here, from New York, is 10,830 km: 27.0% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

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