✈ IST → HND
ISTANBUL → TOKYO IN 11H 25M. CONSIDER BUSINESS CLASS. NO, REALLY.
Flight from Istanbul to Tokyo
From Istanbul Airport (IST), Turkey Europe → Haneda (HND), Japan Asia
↔ Flying the other way? Tokyo → Istanbul
How long is the flight from Istanbul to Tokyo?
A nonstop flight from Istanbul (IST) to Tokyo (HND) takes about 11 hours 25 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,566 miles (8,957 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
11h 25m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,566 mi
8,957 km · great-circle
Avg speed
785 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Istanbul timezone
UTC+3
Europe/Istanbul
Tokyo timezone
UTC+9
Asia/Tokyo
Time difference
+6h
6 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~6d
Eastward — worse
CO₂ footprint per passenger
Economy class, single passenger. Source: DEFRA 2024 averages.
This flight emits roughly 3.6× the CO₂ of an equivalent train trip and 0.9× a car driven alone over the same distance.
Flights from Istanbul
Nearest destinations
- Istanbul → Bucharest
- Istanbul → Athens
- Istanbul → Budapest
- Istanbul → Tel Aviv
- Istanbul → Vienna
- Istanbul → Cairo
- Istanbul → Warsaw
- Istanbul → Rome
- Istanbul → Prague
- Istanbul → Munich
Long-haul from Istanbul
- Istanbul → Auckland
- Istanbul → Sydney
- Istanbul → Melbourne
- Istanbul → Santiago
- Istanbul → Buenos Aires
- Istanbul → Mexico City
- Istanbul → Los Angeles
- Istanbul → San Francisco
- Istanbul → Las Vegas
- Istanbul → São Paulo
More flights to Asia
Flights to Tokyo
Nearest origins
- Osaka → Tokyo
- Seoul → Tokyo
- Shanghai → Tokyo
- Beijing → Tokyo
- Taipei → Tokyo
- Hong Kong → Tokyo
- Manila → Tokyo
- Bangkok → Tokyo
- Singapore → Tokyo
- Kuala Lumpur → Tokyo
Long-haul to Tokyo
- Rio de Janeiro → Tokyo
- São Paulo → Tokyo
- Buenos Aires → Tokyo
- Santiago → Tokyo
- Cape Town → Tokyo
- Johannesburg → Tokyo
- Cancun → Tokyo
- Miami → Tokyo
- Casablanca → Tokyo
- Mexico City → Tokyo