$297 Find Cheap Flights from Japan to San Francisco

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Cheap Flight Deals from Japan to San Francisco

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from Japan to San Francisco 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.

Recent round-trip flight deals from Japan to San Francisco

KAYAK's recommended round-trip deals from the most popular airlines that fly from Japan to San Francisco.
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8:55 am - 3:30 pmNRT-SFO
22h 35m1 stop
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11:30 pm - 3:30 pmSFO-NRT
24h 00m1 stop
Mon, Jun 16 - Wed, Jun 25
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9:30 pm - 2:45 pmNRT-SFO
9h 15mnonstop
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4:45 pm - 8:00 pmSFO-NRT
11h 15mnonstop
$666ZIPAIR
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Sat, May 10 - Mon, May 12
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7:45 pm - 7:02 pmHND-SFO
15h 17m1 stop
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6:12 pm - 4:45 amSFO-HND
18h 33m1 stop
$821American Airlines
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Wed, Sep 10 - Sun, Sep 14
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6:30 pm - 6:50 amKIX-SFO
28h 20m1 stop
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1:00 am - 10:10 amSFO-KIX
17h 10m1 stop
$909EVA Air
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Mon, Sep 1 - Thu, Sep 4
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11:10 am - 4:00 pmKIX-SFO
20h 50m1 stop
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1:10 am - 5:15 pmSFO-KIX
24h 05m1 stop
$910EVA Air
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Fri, Oct 3 - Sat, Oct 11
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3:00 pm - 3:30 pmFUK-SFO
16h 30m1 stop
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11:30 pm - 10:15 amSFO-FUK
18h 45m1 stop
$956Asiana Airlines
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Mon, Sep 1 - Fri, Sep 5
Asiana Airlines Logo
7:45 pm - 3:30 pmNRT-SFO
35h 45m1 stop
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11:30 pm - 9:00 pmSFO-NRT
29h 30m1 stop
$977Asiana Airlines
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Mon, Jun 16 - Sat, Jun 28
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11:55 am - 10:45 amHND-SFO
14h 50m1 stop
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7:55 pm - 4:45 amSFO-HND
16h 50m1 stop
$1,197American Airlines
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Tue, Jun 17 - Mon, Jun 23
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2:40 pm - 11:20 amITM-SFO
12h 40m1 stop
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1:35 pm - 7:50 pmSFO-ITM
14h 15m1 stop
$1,602Japan Airlines
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Fri, Oct 3 - Sun, Oct 12
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2:35 pm - 11:20 amITM-SFO
12h 45m1 stop
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11:55 am - 7:45 pmSFO-ITM
15h 50m1 stop
$1,605Japan Airlines
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KAYAK's insights & trends for flights to San Francisco

Get data-powered insights and trends for flights to San Francisco to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest month to fly to San Francisco?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights to San Francisco, 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 to San Francisco is May, where tickets cost $701 on average for return flights. On the other hand, the most expensive months are November and January, where the average cost of tickets from Japan is $1,695 and $1,032 respectively. For one-way flights, the best month to travel is October with an average price of $1,097.

What is a good deal for flights to San Francisco?

If you’re looking for cheap airfare to San Francisco, 25% of our users found tickets to San Francisco for the following prices or less: From Tokyo Narita Airport $655 round-trip, from Tokyo Haneda Airport $1,254 round-trip, from Osaka Kansai Intl Airport $1,756 round-trip.

How far in advance should I book a flight to San Francisco?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights to San Francisco, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price, you should book around 2 weeks before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 4 weeks before departure.


Good to know

Low seasonJanuary
High seasonAugust
Cheapest flight$297
Best time to beat the crowds but there is an average 16% increase in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 5% increase in price.
Flight from Tokyo Narita Airport to San Francisco

Flights from Japan to San Francisco: the best tips from KAYAK users

Insights shared by verified travelers who flew the route from Japan to San Francisco 
JohnjimyFlew with ANANRT-SFOAug 2024
If you have multiple carry-on. You may be subjected to have tags or have to pay, due to limited spaces. I was fortunate to have my bag under seat for take off. Other passengers decided to bring the whole room with them without me having space to put my backpack carry on.
Verified travelerFlew with ANANRT-SFOMay 2024
Haneda airport now handles most of the international traffic. It's much closer to downtown Tokyo. Narita is 45-55 minutes out of town. Do online and complete you immigration documentation before your flight. Print the QR code and the machine will scan it along with your passport. Much faster.

FAQs - booking San Francisco flights

  • How far is San Francisco Airport from central San Francisco?

    The city center of San Francisco is 12 miles from San Francisco Airport.

  • What is the name of San Francisco’s airport?

    When flying to San Francisco, you'll arrive at San Francisco Airport (SFO). The airport is also known as San Francisco or San Francisco Intl.

  • How much is a flight to San Francisco?

    On average, a flight to San Francisco costs $841. The cheapest price found on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks cost $296 and departed from Tokyo Narita Airport.

  • What is the cheapest day to fly to San Francisco?

    Based on KAYAK data, the cheapest day to fly to San Francisco is Wednesday where round-trip tickets can be as cheap as $988. On the other hand, the most expensive day to fly is Saturday, where round-trip prices are $1,310 on average.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights to San Francisco?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights to San Francisco.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket to San Francisco?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to San Francisco is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights to San Francisco?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to San Francisco with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight to San Francisco?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to San Francisco up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • What is the cheapest time of day to fly to San Francisco?

    The cheapest time of day to fly to San Francisco is generally at night, when round-trip flights cost $687 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to San Francisco is generally in the evening, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $1,468.

  • How many direct flights to San Francisco are there each week?

    Each week there are around 4,107 direct flights from within Japan to San Francisco. The most common day for departures is Thursday, with 15% of flights taking off on this day.

Top tips for finding cheap flights to San Francisco

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $594 or less one-way and $1,254 or less round-trip.
  • Enter your preferred departure airport and travel dates into the search form above to unlock the latest San Francisco flight deals.

Top 5 airlines serving from Japan to San Francisco

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying to San Francisco. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline from Japan to San Francisco. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with to San Francisco? 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.
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EVA AirOverall score based on 1186 reviews
8.0Entertainment
8.3Comfort
8.4Boarding
8.6Crew
8.1Food
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Sub sandwhich for a snack through mid flight and giving a bottle water was a good idea

8.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Mar 2025TPE - IAH
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Sub sandwhich for a snack through mid flight and giving a bottle water was a good idea

seats are pitched well. you don't feel too tight.

For the price, it was better than other airlines; quality of food and service was very good.

Great but I am not sure why I was placed in zone 4 for boarding despite being an Infinity Member??? Can you explain online. Thanks

Clean plane, friendly crew, mostly on-time departure. Negativo since there were no snacks offered. Cold drinks only was fine due to turbulence, but nothing to eat? Really?

I was sleep when they brought the food. They had put a note on my seat. There was no food when I asked for food later. There was just one main meal served in this 14 hours flight. They offered me sandwich with ham which I don’t eat since I am pescatarian. Long story short I had to wait to get to TPE to get something to eat. I am extremely disappointed from the service. I have been flying EVA since I was 1 year old. Perhaps no more EVA for me. Seems EVA glorious day is long gone

The boarding was organized and efficient. The crew was very thoughtful and did not wake me up when meals were served. I was totally exhausted after 2 weeks of vacation with a tour group. So sleep was more important to me. The crew just left me a sticker telling me that food had been served and if I woke up hungry to contact the crew. I did have the last meal scheduled on board. Food was very mediocre. The scrambled egg and minced meat were too salty. The porridge was passable. I was disappointed because I have high expectations of food from Taiwan. I thought EVA being a Taiwan based airline would have served its customers better tasting food.

Great service. Was there a food option? I was given food (I could have ordered ahead of time?) but had no choice. I like choice.

basic and only minimum of service, they offer nothing special

delayed and the cabin crew was like trainees.. a bit careless and not so pleasing to their job

Flight from New Delhi to Tokyo was mediocre. The seats were not of business class as we are used to. They were not wide enough. On the other hand the seats on the flight from Tokyo to San Francisco were excellent every thing were great except the food. Tokyo business lounge was excellent. The whole experience was great except the food on the plane. Will still fly JAL.

The entree wasn’t very good. The rice was soggy. The side dishes were all good though. The breakfast was also good. The crew were excellent, as usual.

JAL using the state of art A350-1000 for JFK to HND It’s a great plane to fly Very comfortable with lower cabin altitude Quieter cabin Wider seats Big tv screen Excellent service and catering

The flight attendants were excellent as usual however the meal wasn’t the usual good quality. There is cooked rice was mushy.

This portion of the trip from HCMC to Dallas was operated by American Airline. Unfortunately they are 2 steps below JAL in overall quality. Regardless, AAStill got me where I needed to go on time.

This flight was leg 2 of 2 leg journey. The staff at baggage re-drop in Tokyo were fabulous. Once at gate when time to board, had to take standing room bus to the tarmac to board. Did not like getting out to plane and having to wait 5 minutes until they opened bus door.

It's a domestic flight, but still the JAL quality shone through. The crew were polite and helpful and even prepared little gifts / souvenirs for the children on the flight, and everyone got a simple drink. The free wifi for entertainment on the personal device was also a great boon, and the shows surprisingly decent. Would recommend.

Allow gold card holders (Group 1) to board with their guest like other One World carriers do

Checked baggage process is confusing and time consuming especially when checking oversized bags. Very slow agents didn't help.

Website from the 1990s, super frustrating customer support, inflight experience merely OK - more like United than e.g. Emirates

It was amazing. I was not expecting the phenomenal customer service Asiana provides.

The seats felt very small. We were supplied with pillows and blankets, which was nice. Lots of noise from the bathroom, plus exterior noise. Made it hard to hear the entertainment system, even using my own noise-cancelling headphones. The food was really bad. I generally request a vegetarian meal and one was supplied, but the pasta was cold and hard and there was nothing pleasant about it. Two meals were served on this flight; one was a repeat of the meal I had had on the flight immediately preceding this one, which was bad enough I didn't even try it. Drinks were very limited. All I wanted was water, and on a 10.5 hour flight, I was given 3 cups of about 3 ounces each.

The seats felt very small. We were supplied with pillows and blankets, which was nice. Lots of noise from the bathroom, plus exterior noise. Made it hard to hear the entertainment system, even using my own noise-cancelling headphones. The food was really bad. I generally request a vegetarian meal and one was supplied, but the pasta was cold and hard and there was nothing pleasant about it. Drinks were very limited. All I wanted was water, and on a 4 hour flight, I was given 2 cups of about 3 ounces each.

We took business class, It was comfortable and I was able to sleep.

Everything was perfect. A flight attendant even brought me snacks after I declined food due to my desire to force myself to follow the destination time zone.

For the most part, it was an enjoyable experience. It's the 2nd half of the journey was a bit uncomfortable. It was on a noticable smaller plane compared to the previous one.

Only process that my luggage didn’t make it to my destination because of short connection but I understand

The boarding process was good. The toilet could be better maintained.

This has been the worst experience I've ever had. We arrived to Ho Chi Minh Airport and were supposed to get our Asiana ticket from the transfer counter as we came with a different airline. However, the staff at the transfer counter were not helpful and kept giving us different information. We were first told by Asiana airlines staff we had to wait 2 hours so they could print out and give us our tickets, then someone else told us we had to wait 3hrs, someone told us "I don't know, just go sit and wait and we will tell you later." This was at a place in the Ho Chi Minh airport that had no coffee or food shops, nothing, just immigration (to enter Vietnam with a Vietnam Visa) and security (to transfer into the gates) but we needed our printed boarding pass to go through. It wasn't until we demanded to speak to a supervisor as our flight time was 1hr away because they kept telling us "there's alot of time left for your international flight, we will get your tickets later" we still had to wait around 20minutes for the "Supervisor" to give us our tickets. I would NOT recommend Asiana Airlines, especially if going thru Ho Chi Minh Airport as they are not helpful. (We almost missed our flight, due to their lazyness and incompetence of printing our tickets) I would suggest Asiana Airlines to have a Machine in the transfer area so passengers can easily print out their boarding passes themselves and save some money by not hiring incompetent staff that can't do a simple task such as printing a boarding pass.

Great service. They could offer vegetarian food and do more to reduce waste.

Easy to board and fly, no frills. Yummy ramen on board.

It was for the most part a 10/10 they said they had entertainment options but all they had was old movies for streaming from the mid 2010’s so like 10 years ago

all good for a very budget flight - well priced and excellent service. Will fly again

Couple of the crew members were really nice and the rest are really rude and didn't help when we needed help, food was not worth it at all and most importantly there's no even entertainment system other than a very interruptive and slow internet and some movies.

I appreciate the economy price of the tickets. The long flight made the comfort level on the lower average side. Wi-Fi connection was not consistent but working. Overall, I would fly again with zip air but next time get the flat, premium seats with the amount of money I would save otherwise.

Comfortable seats and lucky no one was in middle seat. No water on the plane. Plane was on time and staff was fast.

You get what you pay for and nothing more. Wanted a cheap flight and that’s exactly what I got, though it’s human nature to wanting to feel like you got a good deal as well. There was none of that here. I was cheap and they were too. Got to my destination safely and that’s all that really matters.

Nice service. I wish it could provide hot water on the flight.

internet didn't work. No offer of drinks or snacks.

Flight was seamless. Free wifi helped pass the time. Food was okay, just make sure you pre order or pick something up from the airport

One bottle of water and a package of cookies for comfort plus. We had to literally beg a flight attendant for an extra bottle of water later in the flight due to feeling dehydrated.

Flight boarded from Gate 39 at OGG, the farthest gate in the terminal. There were no Hawaiian themed amenities for the flight. The first class service was mediocre at best; I received not special welcome or recognition as an executive platinum member of American Advantage program. The flight attendants were more concerned with their cell phones than saying "thank you" to the passengers as we disembarked. Fortunately, the flight arrived at LAX a few minutes early.

Bigger seats. Board back to front! Disembark front to back!

Extraordinary service in business class, and very good breakfast and snacks. A really lovely flight.

This flight didn’t happen because AA agents didn’t let us board the flight

Plane was pretty clean, staff was friendly and helpful, flight left about on time arrived early. Took a long time to board and get off the plane - carry on items didn't have enough room so people had to move all around to find places.

The service and food needs to improve to catch up with other international flights

Would have been good to have a meal since it was a 5.5 hour flight

We boarded after several delays due to mechanical failure and a gate change. The seat cushion in the exit row was very compressed and offered no cushion, making the four-hour journey reasonably uncomfortable. The WiFi worked for a few people, but for most, it did not, and you cannot get entertainment unless you can connect—American Airlines flights do not have seatback screens, and you must use your mobile phone.

AA is always pretty solid. Was on time all the way around today so can’t complain!

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