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title: "Flights to Tokyo: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to Tokyo, Japan, from 21 cities — 820 km at the nearest, 10,830 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/tokyo
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Japan · Asia

# 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.

| From                                                        |     | Distance  | Estimated | Direction                        |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- | -------------------------------- |
| [Sapporo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-cts)       | CTS | 820 km    | 1h 31m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Seoul](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-icn)         | ICN | 1,210 km  | 2h 00m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Naha](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-oka)          | OKA | 1,555 km  | 2h 26m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Shanghai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-pvg)      | PVG | 1,738 km  | 2h 40m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Taipei](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-tpe)        | TPE | 2,122 km  | 3h 08m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Bangkok](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-bkk)       | BKK | 4,590 km  | 6h 12m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Singapore](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnd-to-sin)     | SIN | 5,300 km  | 7h 05m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Honolulu](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hnl-to-hnd)      | HNL | 6,191 km  | 8h 12m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Vancouver](https://orbitflights.app/routes/yvr-to-nrt)     | YVR | 7,503 km  | 9h 49m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Seattle](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sea-to-hnd)       | SEA | 7,711 km  | 10h 05m   | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Sydney](https://orbitflights.app/routes/syd-to-hnd)        | SYD | 7,818 km  | 10h 13m   | barely any time shift            |
| [Helsinki](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hel-to-nrt)      | HEL | 7,829 km  | 10h 14m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [San Francisco](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sfo-to-hnd) | SFO | 8,285 km  | 10h 48m   | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-nrt)   | LAX | 8,753 km  | 11h 23m   | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Los Angeles](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lax-to-hnd)   | LAX | 8,812 km  | 11h 27m   | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Istanbul](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ist-to-nrt)      | IST | 8,980 km  | 11h 40m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-nrt)        | LHR | 9,591 km  | 12h 25m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-hnd)        | LHR | 9,592 km  | 12h 25m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Paris](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-hnd)         | CDG | 9,708 km  | 12h 34m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Rome](https://orbitflights.app/routes/fco-to-hnd)          | FCO | 9,892 km  | 12h 48m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/jfk-to-nrt)      | JFK | 10,830 km | 13h 58m   | westbound — 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.

[What actually counts as a country visited →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/counting-countries)

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