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Cheap Flights from Des Moines to Japan

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 72 hours
Tokyo
Tokyo1 stop$864
Okinawa
Okinawa2 stops$979
Tokyo
Tokyo1 stop$864
Okinawa
Okinawa2 stops$979

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Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Des Moines to Japan that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent round-trip flight deals from Des Moines to Japan

Mon, Sep 29 - Thu, Oct 2
American Airlines Logo
5:10 am - 3:00 pmDSM-NRT
19h 50m1 stop
American Airlines Logo
6:30 pm - 11:30 pmNRT-DSM
19h 00m1 stop
$864American Airlines
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Mon, Sep 29 - Thu, Oct 2
United Airlines Logo
9:20 am - 2:55 pmDSM-NRT
15h 35m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
5:10 pm - 11:56 pmNRT-DSM
20h 46m2 stops
$869United Airlines
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Sun, Jan 4 - Tue, Jan 20
Japan Airlines Logo
1:24 pm - 10:00 pmDSM-HND
17h 36m1 stop
Japan Airlines Logo
10:50 am - 11:12 amHND-DSM
15h 22m1 stop
$871Japan Airlines
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Sun, Jan 4 - Tue, Jan 20
Japan Airlines Logo
5:45 am - 2:45 pmDSM-NRT
18h 00m1 stop
Japan Airlines Logo
5:00 pm - 11:12 amNRT-DSM
33h 12m1 stop
$879Japan Airlines
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Sun, Jan 4 - Tue, Jan 20
American Airlines Logo
5:15 am - 4:00 pmDSM-NRT
19h 45m2 stops
American Airlines Logo
6:10 pm - 10:40 pmNRT-DSM
19h 30m2 stops
$894American Airlines
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Mon, Sep 29 - Fri, Oct 3
ANA Logo
8:00 am - 10:30 pmDSM-OKA
24h 30m2 stops
ANA Logo
9:05 pm - 12:11 pmOKA-DSM
29h 06m2 stops
$979ANA
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Tue, Oct 28 - Tue, Nov 4
United Airlines Logo
3:15 pm - 9:05 pmDSM-HND
15h 50m1 stop
United Airlines Logo
10:25 am - 5:25 pmHND-DSM
22h 00m1 stop
$999United Airlines
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Wed, Oct 29 - Wed, Nov 5
ANA Logo
8:02 am - 5:45 pmDSM-HND
19h 43m1 stop
ANA Logo
10:25 am - 10:42 amHND-DSM
15h 17m1 stop
$1,010ANA
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Tue, Oct 28 - Tue, Nov 4
Delta Logo
6:39 pm - 3:20 pmDSM-HND
30h 41m2 stops
Delta Logo
4:25 pm - 8:35 pmHND-DSM
19h 10m1 stop
$1,044Delta
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Wed, Dec 24 - Wed, Jan 7
Delta Logo
5:35 pm - 2:05 pmDSM-HND
29h 30m2 stops
Delta Logo
5:20 pm - 9:27 pmHND-DSM
19h 07m1 stop
$1,476Delta
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KAYAK's insights & trends for Des Moines to Japan flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Des Moines to Japan to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Des Moines to Japan?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Des Moines to Japan, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from Des Moines to Japan is September, when tickets cost $950 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and June, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $1,605 and $1,482 respectively.

Good to know

Low seasonAugust
Cheapest flight$605
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 6% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 16% increase in price.
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  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to Japan?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to Japan is generally in the morning, when round-trip flights cost $1,682 on average. Morning departures are around 3% cheaper than evening flights, on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to Japan is generally in the evening, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $1,733.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Des Moines to Japan

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Des Moines to Japan? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
8.4
ANAOverall score based on 961 reviews
8.7Crew
7.9Entertainment
8.6Boarding
8.2Comfort
7.7Food
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Everything was excellent. Only the fish entree in the Japanese meal was overcooked and quite dry but everything else was great

10.0 Excellentmichael, Sep 2025LHR - HND
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Everything was excellent. Only the fish entree in the Japanese meal was overcooked and quite dry but everything else was great

Great first time experience on this airline. Very professional staff and great service.

Warm the bread. Movies: better choices to include Chinese movies options or some of the older winners of flim festival

I was able to change my flight last minute. It was more expensive, but that was my fault. Thank you for allowing me to fly!

Business class on ANA was awesome. There lie flat seats made it easier to sleep on a 12 hour flight. Food was great and service was excellent.

The crew was very nice and polite. They made sure everybody got their meal and drinks. Even the economy class had a very adequate leg room for someone that is over 6 foot tall.

Overall it was good. Making changes to the reservation on ANA’s website was little challenging. Would like to see those features improved in the future.

The flight crew was outstanding. Very cheerful and always respectful. I wish the same could be said about United. The AC wasn't the best on the plane.

The seats are uncomfortable. The flight attendants are not pleasant. They do their job, but not with a ray of sunshine and warmth. The food was awful, not what I would expect from an Asian airline. All of the other Asian airlines I have flown have far better food. The food was on par with United airlines food, which is really bad. Maybe ANA should get out of the alliance with United.

During booking, I selected the seats so that my wife and I would sit next to each other. However, the airline changed our seats at boarding so that we were seated apart. Very disappointing.

highly recommend for trip to japan only reason why i gave good not excellent is because their selection of movies and tv shows in English is more limited .

We asked for Hindu vegetarian meal in advance and the quality of the food was horrendous. Never flying JAL again!

Japan airline is excellent service .I recommend to Kayak and Japan airline to Frend.

Overall a great experience. One complain was the vegetarian food that my wife had which was mostly boiled vegetables with not much flavor.

Very accommodating and kind airline crews. The plane is also big which makes the passengers more comfortable and relax

I actually didn’t make it onto the flight. I spent quite a few hours trying to rebook the flight just to get screwed out of $5000. Fun!

We booked business class round trip from Delhi to San Diego and back. On our last leg from Bangalore to Delhi we were down graded to economy class which was big disappointment other than that everything was great.

Had an incident with a stewardess who insisted that I take a seat. I informed her that I came to use the restroom and to have some water. After using the restroom, I wanted to stretch my legs out a little cuz my knees were aching from sitting. I understood her concern for my concern and the potential turbulence (she said she knows this route and the turbulence and safety is not to be taken lightly) but I felt that her mood, tone, demeanor, and a lack of compassion for the pain in my knees were not the proper way to address a customer or anyone for that matter. This left a bitter taste in my mouth. It was her lack of professionalism that surprised me.

we have requested for hindu veg. meal during booking. but served meal was of very poor qualty and taste. they can get such meal from 5 star Indian restaurant at Vancouver/ tokyo/ Bangalore.pure hindu veg meal and no AVML

It was good but need mor amenities for toiletries and entertainment

Perfect flight both ways. On time, courteous staff, plane comfortable and cool. Best domestic flights I’ve had in awhile.

The food was terrible especially for a 15 hour international flight. The crew was unpleasant as well.

Really low quality food especially for an international flight. The crew also was surprisingly unpleasant except couple of ladies. I know we were not in first class but that’s no reason to treat customers as less.

Flight delayed for two and half hours and then canceled altogether due to mechanical issues. No mechanic onsite to fix so had to send one from LAX.

Quick check in. Everything went smooth. I don't know what can be done about airline food.

Crew was good. The reservation got mixed up and they didn't have my TSA number. I am also a Silver Medallion and wasn't able to use Sky Priority.

Delta made it easy, comfortable and timely. The crew was fantastic.

This route with Delta always has delays or is cancelled. Aircrafts seem smaller and older. I fly Delta quite a bit - haven’t had issues with the international flights. But this route has always been the troublesome one

Nothing special. The crew never went out of their way for anything.

Three seats in first class were broken and while they were able to still acommodate us it was looking very touch and go and they had others they could not acommodate

We had to deboard 2 times due to maintenance issues. They changed the plane, and then we got deviated to LAX due to maibtenance issues on the other plane, had to sleep at LAX and los a full day.

Everything was good, except the seats in economy were so close together, you could barely get out when the seat in front of your was reclined. If the airlines keep jamming in more and more seats, it will become intolerable. I will look for another airline that considers customer comfort and does not keep adding more rows of seats for more profit.

The newer screen was super cool and had the option to watch many different shows or movies. Crew was polite and helpful. However again, many children screaming bloody murder and kicking my seat, and parents doing nothing about it as usual.

Flight was good and crew was super polite. However, there were around 5 kids screaming the WHOLE 2 hours. I understand kids have to come but parents need to do something to control their children. They make the experience terrible, especially after finishing 16 hour shifts at the hospital I needed some sleep, which I did not get.

IAD with the archaic people movers is just a place to be avoided.

Great service on board. Boarding a bit slow due to process. Food was pretty average.

Tastless food and too obvious lack of enthusiasm for service in the economy vesus business class

All of the United employees I interacted with were professional and courteous. The aircraft was clean, the food on the flight was good. No complaints here.

I had no checked baggage but was required to hand over carry on baggage at the door of the plane. There was a lot of overboard space in the plane and I was one of the last ones. I ran to get my carry on but it was gone. I was given back at the plane door in Toronto, so the wait was not as long as it would have been at the carousel.

Armrest controller on my seat 35D and nextbooennseat 35E did not work right. Hard to press buttons to recognize and 35D had constantnpressure either upmost down somit was nearly impossible to make selections. .

Given it’s a red-eye into Charolotte, we didn’t get any food. The survey does not include “N/A” so the rating will be skewed.

Great. Quick and quiet and east. The breakfast choices were a welcome surprise!

American airlines suck they delay the flights all the time made me sleep in an airport because my flight was delayed and I miss my connecting flight

There's nothing I liked about it. For first off I scheduled this trip two weeks in advance then they delayed my flight which messed up my whole trip. So I scheduled it for the following weekend thinking there won't be a delay and guess what as soon as I got to the airport we said in the airplane on the tarmac for an hour and a half. Not only was it delayed I missed my connecting flight meaning I had to stay the night at Dallas-Fort Worth airport sleeping on the floor. I will tell you this I will never fly American airlines ever again I have had nothing but horrible experience with them and I just throw money at them

The stewardess hit me with the food kart twice on the head and didn't say I'm sorry once. The same stewardess gave me a warm Apple Juice with No ice. The Flight was delayed for Departure 6 times, starting from 2:36pm, finally taking off 7:50pm. I was late picking up my child from the sitter by 3 hours.

Don’t know they cancelled the flight day before I was to leave. They sent a email at 9:00 pm at night saying they cancelled. That is the smooth way to say we don’t want your business! I think they didn’t have enough people booking so they cancelled the flight! It’s all about the money anymore there is no honesty in business.

Having to reschedule flights a day later, they loaded by luggage on the wrong plane from Little rock now I have to HOPE they deliver it to where im staying like they said would. International flight crew was very disgruntled and not very friendly.

We will be writing a long, detailed letter to corporate about our awful experience with American airlines.

It took way too long to diagnose and solve the problem of a broken crew member cabin seat. Though compensation for the volunteer who left the flight was very kind.

The entertainment package was vast and the selections were very current. Keep updating it was great.

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