Route · HND → SHA
Flights from Tokyo to Shanghai
Tokyo Haneda to Shanghai Hongqiao is a short-haul Northeast Asia workhorse covering roughly 1,776 kilometres and typically blocking around two and a half hours, making it one of the busiest Japan–China corridors alongside the Narita–Pudong pairing. Air China, Shanghai Airlines, and All Nippon Airways all operate the route, generally deploying narrowbody equipment such as the Airbus A320 family or Boeing 737; ANA occasionally rotates wider jets during peak demand. A practical note worth flagging: Hongqiao sits inside central Shanghai and feeds directly into the city's metro network, offering a notably faster downtown transfer than Pudong, which is a genuine advantage if your final destination is the city core. On fares, the route tends to soften in late January through February outside the Lunar New Year window and again in mid-autumn; midweek departures typically yield better availability than Friday or Sunday flights, when business travellers fill the cabin.
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Cheapest dates to fly
Live prices · powered by AviasalesThe calendar below pulls live fares from our search partner for Tokyo (HND) → Shanghai (SHA). Use the year view… to spot the cheapest week to fly, the day-of-week patterns most travellers miss, and any shoulder-season dips worth shifting your trip around. Prices refresh every few hours, so what you see is what your booking page should look like a moment later — click any date to jump straight to the fare on Aviasales.
Airlines on this route
3 carriersThe 3 carriers we currently track on the Tokyo–Shanghai route, from full-service flag carriers to low-cost competitors. Tap any airline for its full profile, baggage… rules, fleet context, and a live fare search pre-filtered to that carrier — useful if you're loyal to a frequent-flyer programme, want to compare onboard product on the same dates, or are weighing a cheaper one-stop against a pricier nonstop.
Flights from Tokyo to Shanghai
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from Tokyo to Shanghai — the actual flight numbers, departure and arrival times your… booking page will pull from. Use it to plan around departure preferences (early morning vs late evening), see which carriers fly on which weekdays, or pick a connection that lets you sleep in your own bed before a long-haul leg. Click any row to load it directly in the search.
Airport guides
Quick links into the airport profiles at both ends of the route. Each guide covers terminal layout, the airlines that base hubs at HND and… SHA, the other routes those airports serve, and the ground-transit options most travellers wish they'd read about before landing — the practical context you only really need to know once you've booked, but want to skim before you do.