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Cheap flight deals from San Diego to Osaka (SAN-OSA)

Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from San Diego to Osaka 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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12:40 pm - 6:55 pmSAN-ITM
38h 15m2 stops
2:00 pm - 4:27 pmITM-SAN
19h 27m2 stops
Wed, Jul 24 - Wed, Jan 22
6:24 am - 6:55 pmSAN-KIX
20h 31m2 stops
5:50 pm - 9:34 pmKIX-SAN
20h 44m2 stops
$991American Airlines
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Wed, Jul 24 - Wed, Jan 22
8:13 am - 7:50 pmSAN-ITM
19h 37m2 stops
2:35 pm - 11:35 amITM-SAN
13h 00m1 stop
$1,032Japan Airlines
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Wed, May 29 - Tue, Sep 3
12:40 pm - 6:55 pmSAN-ITM
38h 15m2 stops
2:00 pm - 4:27 pmITM-SAN
19h 27m2 stops
$1,043Air Canada
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Wed, Jul 10 - Wed, Jan 8
9:40 am - 6:45 pmSAN-KIX
17h 05m1 stop
8:45 pm - 9:40 pmKIX-SAN
16h 55m1 stop
$1,100Hawaiian Airlines
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Sat, Oct 19 - Mon, Oct 28
1:30 pm - 7:50 pmSAN-ITM
14h 20m1 stop
2:50 pm - 9:45 amITM-SAN
11h 55m1 stop
$1,144Japan Airlines
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Wed, Jul 24 - Wed, Jan 22
4:55 pm - 4:20 pmSAN-KIX
31h 25m1 stop
6:00 pm - 4:06 pmKIX-SAN
14h 06m1 stop
$1,313Air Canada
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Sun, Jun 2 - Fri, Sep 6
9:35 am - 6:45 pmSAN-KIX
17h 10m1 stop
8:45 pm - 8:05 pmKIX-SAN
16h 20m1 stop
$1,570Hawaiian Airlines
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Wed, Jul 24 - Wed, Jan 22
7:00 am - 2:50 pmSAN-KIX
15h 50m1 stop
4:50 pm - 2:59 pmKIX-SAN
14h 09m1 stop
$1,982ANA
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Sun, Jul 28 - Mon, Aug 19
6:15 am - 2:50 pmSAN-KIX
16h 35m1 stop
4:50 pm - 6:19 pmKIX-SAN
17h 29m1 stop
$1,989ANA
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Wed, Aug 14 - Sat, Aug 24

Flights from San Diego to Osaka - Travel Insights & Trends

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from San Diego to Osaka to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from San Diego to Osaka?

The average price of all flights from San Diego to Osaka clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.
If your flying dates are flexible, you should consider flying to Osaka on a Wednesday, as we generally find the cheapest rates on that day for this route. On the other hand, Sunday is the most expensive day to fly from San Diego to Osaka. For your return ticket, we recommend flying on a Friday and avoiding Wednesdays for the best deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from San Diego to Osaka?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for flights from San Diego to Osaka, 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 San Diego to Osaka is February, where tickets cost $998 on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and June, where the average cost of tickets is $1,521 and $1,423 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from San Diego to Osaka?

To calculate daily average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each day before departure over the last year for flights from San Diego to Osaka, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each month.
To get a below average price on the flight from San Diego to Osaka, you should book around 3 days before departure. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 20 days before departure.

Which airlines provide the cheapest flights from San Diego to Osaka?

The cheapest price for the route for each airline clicked by KAYAK users in the last 72 hours.
In the last 3 days, Air Canada offered the best one-way deal for that route, at $503. KAYAK users also found San Diego to Osaka round-trip flights on American Airlines from $991 and on Japan Airlines from $1,032.

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January

High season

May

Cheapest flight

$503
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 14% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 2% increase in price.
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When to book flights from San Diego to Osaka

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from San Diego to Osaka based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking flights from San Diego to Osaka

  • What is the cheapest flight from San Diego to Osaka?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from San Diego to Osaka was $503 for a one-way ticket and $945 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between San Diego and Osaka?

    Yes, you'll most likely have to show a valid passport before boarding the plane in San Diego and on arrival in Osaka.

  • Which airports will I be using when flying from San Diego to Osaka?

    When flying out of San Diego you will be using San Diego. You will be landing at one of these airports: Osaka Itami or Osaka Kansai Intl.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from San Diego to Osaka?

    We unfortunately don’t have that data for this specific route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from San Diego to Osaka?

    Star Alliance, oneworld, and SkyTeam are the airline alliances operating flights between San Diego and Osaka, with Star Alliance being the most commonly used for this route.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from San Diego to Osaka, ANA or Japan Airlines?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from San Diego to Osaka are ANA and Japan Airlines. With an average price for the route of $1,474 and an overall rating of 8.4, ANA is the most popular choice. Japan Airlines is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $1,185 and an overall rating of 8.3.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from San Diego to Osaka?

    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 from San Diego to Osaka.

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

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

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from San Diego to Osaka?

    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 Osaka with an airline and back to San Diego with another airline.

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

    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 Osaka from San Diego up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top 5 airlines serving from San Diego to Osaka

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from San Diego to Osaka. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
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ANAOverall score based on 917 reviews
8.0Entertainment
8.6Boarding
8.3Comfort
8.8Crew
7.8Food
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Excellent. All the ticket prices have gone up so much. With only economy as the option, I thought I better pay for a good airline and I am glad I took ANA. The only thing is the long layover at Hanaeda enroute to Singapore. Any chance to bring back the service to land at Narita instead for the transit and a shorter layover will be fantastic. I am a fan of ANA.

10.0 ExcellentLay, May 2024IAD - HND
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Excellent. All the ticket prices have gone up so much. With only economy as the option, I thought I better pay for a good airline and I am glad I took ANA. The only thing is the long layover at Hanaeda enroute to Singapore. Any chance to bring back the service to land at Narita instead for the transit and a shorter layover will be fantastic. I am a fan of ANA.

Good. Got me there and back safely and mostly on time. 30 min delay for maintenance once but that means more time for nap. Crew was super nice.

Incredible. Amazing legroom. Over head fans for each person. Tv screens were great. Headphones were adequate. Seats were comfortable and spacious. Loved it.

The space for the seats i like it. Its not too close like other air line. The food is ok and also the staff. I'm waiting for my flight rewards point because until now i didn't recieved it.

The staff, ground and air, at ANA was very helpful and friendly during check in, boarding and during the flight. This is the reason why I always fly ANA whenever I go to Manila. The food was not the best but the flight crew more than makes up for the shortfall.

First I will say this was really NOT an ANA flight. ANA used a UNITED jet to perform this flight. I specifically booked with ANA because I did NOT WANT TO FLY UNITED FOR INTERNATIONAL FLIGHTS. So to spend $1800.00 and then discover after booking that it was going to be handled by United was very disappointing. I will be more careful next time when I book. The interior was very cramped in economy class; the dinner meal was terrible and also had extremely small portions for an international flight - the bread roll was ice cold and stale - that salad was very wilted; I’ve never had a “snack” that was so salty that it was difficult to eat; the breakfast “waffle” was practically unrecognizable. Really horrible meals for a very expensive international flight. Bathroom floor was also pretty dirty. I’m hoping my return flight is a real ANA airplane that is cleaned and serviced by ANA personnel with ANA meals. I will never book with ANA again if they continue to use UNITED airline jets. Yuck!!!🤢

Ticket was purchased as a United Airlines flight (operated by All Nippon) like what does that even mean? Makes for a VERY confusing flight experience. For instance, what do I look for a United drop off signage and ticket counter or ANA? No explanation anywhere to be found. I also felt a little bit scammed by the obsurdely restrictive seat selection provided. Only middle seats available!! Are you kidding me!! On 6hr + 10hr flights you're forcing me into the middle seat without telling me before I purchased the ticket?? This should be illegal. And to top it off, on the Tokyo LA leg there were quite a few empty seats including window seats! I must also say, the food was a dissappointing as well for my taste, fish with rice ( mostly plain white rice) or a vegetable medly for the breakfast meal? Should be at least 4 choices and at least 1 with eggs. Outside of these issues flight was otherwise ok.

Ground and flight crew were all courteous, extremely helpful and professional. Overall, process is really organized, from boarding to disembarkation.

This is a very long flight and the first time I have flown on a Japanese airline. I was very impressed with the staff. They worked hard and offered food and drink regularly. Plane was very well cared for. The let room was good . Food was ok but better than other airlines.

It was very nice. I was a bit disappointed by the few meal services. There were probably more drink services that I missed while sleeping, but I would have liked the crew to bring more than one drink service before landing and to bring more than one drink service and coffee service after take off

I was feeling very comfortable throughout the flight. I got more leg room than I expected from a Y class seat. But the food was a little disappointing.

All of the JAL flights in this itinerary were great. However the last leg of my flight from LAX to SFO was through Japan Air’s partner, AA which wqsn’t up to par. We were informed only minutes before boarding time of a delay despite the airlines knowing about the delay far earlier (the aircraft we would be taking arriving arrived and disembarked close to our boarding time, for all to see but AA still kept the original boarding time posted until last minute). Furthermore, once we boarded the taxi/wait time was also extended, with the pilot blaming “construction at SFO” for the delay, rather than taking accountability for the the plane’s late arrival coming into LAX. We took off approximately an hour later than scheduled. It’s for these reasons I adamantly avoid American Airlines when possible. Again, JAL was stellar.

The food was not that good. I liked the miso, green tea, and ice cream. I wasn’t able to put my carry on bag under the seat in front of me. The flight was smooth. Please expand your choices of movies especially the new ones. I can’t choose any of those films. They’re old.

I like the braised beef., miso soup,, and green tea. Very little choices of hollywood movies. The PA announcement in English was not very clear and very soft. I could hardly hear.

More updated movies & Chinese movies. The food sometimes overcooked. Prefer to have more neat snacks in between than just choose from the menu. Please change the menu every now and then. This is my second time flying within one year and the menu didn’t change at all!

Food is lagging. Very poor choice. Like vending machine fast food.

Please change the menu more often. The beef is not tender, more choice in ice cream flavor. Dessert is not good too.

The Experience was fantastic, it's a quick flight so no entertainment or food. Just a refreshment

Great crew, Japanese domestic flight is just a drink service but crew are very attentive

Again I paid for an upgrade on my credit card didn’t get it need a refund. . American I not good at gettin in contact for refunds.

We had an awesome flight attendant who came by and made sure we were okay. Checked on us often and even shared some snacks that she had brought on, like edamame with chili and garlic seasoning. Yummy!

Overall good experience. I'm just over 6ft with long legs and legroom could be better, but is on par with other airlines. Only real negative was turbulence but that's not the airlines fault.

We were not given the seats we reserved. But helpful attendant at gate gave us very nice seats.

Having movies helps past time I wish going Vegas had something

First flight got cancelled. Got booked for another flight departing 3.5 hours later which ended up being 1hr delayed... The flight was good when we finally ended up flying.

Very friendly und helpful crew. Looking forward for some more flights in

My husband and I had to split seats and I did not like to seat at the window.

The flight was very smooth and comfortable. The entire flight crew was very professional and provided excellent service. Thank you.

Very smooth flight, great landing- entertainment didn’t work so well

Pilot and first officer did really an amazing job. I can best discribe their flying as finesse. Inital service with food/beverages was great, however after that the crew just kind of packed it in and were sitting in the galleys chatting for the remainder of the flight. I wanted a bottle of water, went to the mid plane galley, was told they were only available in the back, so had to walk the length of the plane just to get a bottle of water. That was a new experience on an airplane for me. Pretty sure evem Spirit will bring you the bottle of water you are paying for. Seat was comfy, magazine worth the read. Entertainment nonexistant unless you want to pop for the $4 headphones.

Horrible - they lied to me about baggage & boarding, even though I specifically spoke to their agents the day before my flight about my issue. When I showed up they did not let me board and stranded me at my airport until I bought a new flight with money I did not have to spend.

Not sure why JAL partnered with American Airlines because their service is no where near similar. Flight attendants were not friendly and didn’t smile. Food was horrible…

The experience was great and much better than the flight going out. of course I was in first class but the service was excellent

Comfort of seats, ease of boarding. Food selection could be better

Food options were limited which is absolutely embarrassing for a Flight of this size The staff did not come around as much and I am not accustomed to such poor service from American Airlines Drinks I believe were limited to soda and water

Crew were attentive and friendly. Flight was smooth and early! I enjoyed the less crowded plane. Thank you!

We are gluten free, there were not any available complimentary gluten free options.

No meal on a cross country flight? SFO-MiA is pretty much the definition of a coast to coast flight. No meal provided. Sky high wi-fi rates too. Stop nickel and diming your customers.

The staff was unprofessional and didn’t communicate very well. The boarding process was very disheveled, potentially due to a power outage the previous day but there was no contingency plan to properly get passengers boarded the following day. Once boarded the aircraft stayed on the tarmac for over 45 minutes due to high winds. The communication was sporadic but an announcement was finally made an additional 30 minutes later that the flight was cancelled but we couldn’t get off the plane. Prior to deplaning one of the gate agents came on the plane and made an announcement for everyone to pickup their checked bags and take a card to rebook a new reservation because they didn’t have adequate staff. Flights were missed, passengers went to different airports and there was little to no assistance from AA.

You cancelled my flight by email then made it very difficult to get in contact with you. Then put me in a flight with a long layover in Mexico returning to the wrong airport in uk. Mind blowing my stressful. I missed see my grand dad because of you.

Plenty of room in the exit row. Sat on the plane an hour before taking off.☹️ Landed late and had to wait for gate availability.

Flight was on time early arrival better entertainment good staff.everything was excellent

They canceled the flight on us very close to the flight date .

My experience was pretty frustrating because the first leg of my flight on United (though booked through Air Canada) was delayed causing me to miss my connecting flight on Air Canada. This could have been an easy solve as there was a direct flight later that morning via Air Canada that they easily could have put me on which would have only gotten me to my destination 2 1/2 hours later but because United and Air Canada don’t seem to have good communication they gave me the run around both telling me to talk with the other which I did three times to no avail. I ended up taking the delayed flight and getting on a new connecting flight which ended up getting me to my destination 6 hours later and I missed the event I was planning to go to this evening.

Everything went smoothly and as expected. We were on time and one flight arrived early.

This is not a Business Class equipped airplane and even the crew apologize before take over BUT BUT Air Canada charged full business class fare

Very good other than we have to wait for one crew and we’re delayed and the pilot and his co- pilot has to make a difference to be right on time arrival. Disappointed about no food service also.

Due to a strike taking place with the airline, it negatively impacted my flight in multiple ways. My flight was delayed over 2 hours and the food served was mediocre at best.

Cabin crew were great. Seats are criminal for tall people

Flight was delayed 1.5 hrs due to problem with a previous flight to mine; I was informed appropriately via Text & Email, however, website did not keep up with messages sent by nearly an hour. When checking-in warm & friendly reception at check-in desk until female Air Canada Rep noticed my flight number and instantly pivoted to a condescending & sarcastic comments about getting my bag checked in since I’m running so late; then tone instantly changed again few minutes later when she muttered, “Oh, they’ve delayed it” another sign systems & worse front line staff, not fully informed or simply not reading their flight status updates. Flight crew were very friendly & did a great job trying to make up lost time due to the delay.

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Recent one-way flight deals

 
Only flying one-way? Below are some of the best one-way flight deals from San Diego to Osaka found on KAYAK in the last 72 hours.
9/3Tue
1 stopAir Canada
17h 20mSAN-KIX
$503
9/3Tue
2 stopsAir Canada
33h 00mSAN-KIX
$536
6/2Sun
1 stopJapan Airlines
14h 45mSAN-ITM
$764
6/2Sun
1 stopJapan Airlines
30h 10mSAN-KIX
$884
7/1Mon
2 stopsANA
19h 11mSAN-UKB
$1,210
6/5Wed
1 stopAmerican Airlines
14h 45mSAN-ITM
$1,332
6/5Wed
1 stopUnited Airlines
15h 30mSAN-KIX
$1,477
5/31Fri
1 stopAmerican Airlines
14h 45mSAN-ITM
$1,533
6/6Thu
1 stopUnited Airlines
15h 30mSAN-KIX
$1,607
6/2Sun
2 stopsANA
22h 25mSAN-UKB
$1,734

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