Route · SHA → HND
Flights from Shanghai to Tokyo
Spanning roughly 1,776 km across the East China Sea, the Shanghai Hongqiao–Tokyo Haneda corridor is one of East Asia's busiest short-haul links, with a typical block time of around two and a half hours. Air China and Shanghai Airlines cover the route from the Chinese side, while All Nippon Airways brings Japanese network strength, and narrowbodies such as the Airbus A320 family are the workhorses on most departures. A practical point worth noting: Haneda's international terminal (Terminal 3) connects efficiently to central Tokyo via the Keikyu or Tokyo Monorail lines in roughly 30–40 minutes, making it meaningfully more convenient than Narita for most city-center destinations. On the fare side, shoulder periods in late January and mid-June tend to yield softer prices, while premium-cabin availability on ANA often opens up attractively on midweek departures when business traffic thins.
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Cheapest dates to fly
Live prices · powered by AviasalesThe calendar below pulls live fares from our search partner for Shanghai (SHA) → Tokyo (HND). 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 Shanghai–Tokyo 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 Shanghai to Tokyo
Live schedule · powered by AviasalesBelow is the published weekly schedule for nonstop and one-stop services from Shanghai to Tokyo — 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 SHA and… HND, 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.