NH106 LAX → HND

NH106 distance and great-circle path

NH106 covers 8,813 km, or 5,476 miles. That makes it a long-haul flight, a widebody route with a full night's flying time. Of the 255 routes we track, it ranks 94 by distance.

The plane leaves Los Angeles heading north-west. On the map above, the line looks curved. That is normal. The shortest path over a round planet never looks straight on a flat screen. Our guide explains how the LAX–HND route appears on a tracker map.

Why NH106 block time differs from cruise time

The schedule allows 12.0 hours from gate to gate. That works out to about 734 km/h. A Boeing 787-10 cruises faster than that. The gap is taxi time, climbing, descending and holding.

Flying west, this route pushes against the wind. The trip back east is usually shorter, even though the distance is the same. See why long flights take odd-looking routes.

What to know about NH106

• Time change: you land 16 hours ahead of the time you left. That is enough to cause jet lag. Here is how pilots handle it.
• Crosses the date line: the calendar date changes while you are in the air.

We track 2 scheduled services between Los Angeles and Tokyo, split between All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines. Among them, it is the first departure of the day on this route; it is given 10 minutes more block time than the quickest scheduled service; it is the only one flown with a Boeing 787-10.

Measured against NH106, which pushes back at 00:50:

• JL62 (Japan Airlines) leaves 12 hours 40 minutes later and is scheduled 10 minutes quicker, on a Boeing 787-9.

Block time is gate to gate, so it counts taxi at both ends. That is why two flights covering identical distance rarely share a scheduled duration.

Our database contains 2 observations of NH106 across 2 UTC dates in this window, most recently 2026-07-29. Those records contain 2 distinct transponder addresses.

The median recorded visibility was 520 minutes. That is time inside receiver coverage, not airborne duration or an on-time-performance measurement.