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Weather, politics and local regulations can affect the choice of airspace and flight corridors. Flightpaths.com lets you see the real flight paths and compare passenger airlines and flight times simplified on an interactive map.
Flights from Toronto (YYZ), Canada to Tokyo (HND), Japan illustrated on a map. Based on 20 recorded flights, the distance can vary between 6596 and 6842 miles.
Are you flying between Toronto and Tokyo and want to learn more about the actual flight path used? Have a look at our interactive maps to see the airspace being covered on this transpacific route.
Toronto Pearson Airport and Tokyo Haneda Airport are both major hubs and the route between the two airports is an important connection linking the two continents together. As of the beginning of 2025 there is only one airline that offers flights between the two airports – Canadian flag carrier Air Canada.
To get more information about the flight path used by Air Canada on different flights, you can check out the list below. Here we present the exact time spent in each country’s airspace and above water. You can also see the distance covered in each of the 20 latest routes in our database.
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The great circle distance, in other words the shortest distance possible, between the airports in Toronto and Tokyo is about 10,350 kilometers. But as you can tell from the flight recordings, the actual flights offered between Toronto and Tokyo are up to 1,000 kilometers longer. The reasons for this are several – let’s try to explain why.
Flight paths are chosen based on a number of outer circumstances, with everything from conflicts to weather affecting the paths used. All airlines try to shorten their distance to save both time, fuel and to minimize the environmental impact, but when it comes to the flight between Canada and Japan there are a couple of things that causes the flights to be longer than the great circle distance. One of them is the on-going conflict between Russia and Ukraine, where Russia has banned many airlines from their airspace – including Air Canada. Since the great circle passes through Russian airspace, this path can’t be used.
Another impact on the flight paths is the fact that the so-called transpacific flights can be affected by extreme weather conditions, considering the flights need to pass a massive body of water. The flights are also planned to cover as much land as possible, if a re-fuel or emergency landing would come necessary. This can affect the paths (and the distance) of the flights.