ANA All Nippon Airways Flights from the U.S.: Cities Served, Tokyo Airports and Booking Notes

Somewhere over the Pacific, the cabin lights dim, a flight attendant passes with a tray of green tea, and the screen ahead shows a small plane inching toward Tokyo. For many Americans heading to Japan, that plane belongs to All Nippon Airways, the Tokyo-based carrier better known as ANA. It flies nonstop from several U.S. cities to the Tokyo area and to Honolulu, and the details below tell you where it departs, where it lands and what to weigh before you buy.

A jet at a Japanese airport · Illustration

Which U.S. cities does ANA serve?

ANA flies nonstop to Tokyo from seven mainland U.S. cities: Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Houston and Washington, D.C. Add Honolulu, and you have a network that touches both coasts, the Midwest, Texas and the Pacific.

The airline is a Japanese carrier headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, and its U.S. story is a long one. Its first scheduled international passenger service, in 1986, ran from Tokyo to Guam. By the end of that same year, it had added Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. to the map, so two of today’s gateways are among its oldest.

U.S. city	Daily nonstop flights to Tokyo	Tokyo airport
Los Angeles	3	Haneda / Narita
New York	2	Haneda
San Francisco	2	Haneda / Narita
Chicago	2	Haneda / Narita
Seattle	1	Haneda
Houston	1	Haneda
Washington, D.C.	1	Haneda
Honolulu	2, plus seasonal flights	Haneda / Narita

West Coast gateways

Los Angeles carries the most frequencies, with three daily nonstop flights to Tokyo, split between Haneda and Narita. San Francisco has two daily nonstops, also across both Tokyo airports, and Seattle has a daily nonstop to Haneda.

For a traveler on the West Coast, this means choosing among several departure windows rather than building a trip around a single flight. Having Haneda and Narita both on offer from Los Angeles and San Francisco also lets you think about where in the Tokyo area you want to land.

East Coast, Chicago and Houston

New York has two daily nonstops to Haneda. Washington, D.C. has a daily nonstop to Haneda, a route with roots in the airline’s first year of U.S. service. Chicago has two daily nonstops, between Haneda and Narita, and Houston has a daily nonstop to Haneda.

Houston and Washington each have a single daily flight, so travelers from those cities are working with one departure a day. If you live near one of the larger gateways, the extra frequencies give you more room when you are lining up a trip with a wedding, a conference or a cruise departure.

Honolulu

Honolulu is a little different. ANA runs two daily nonstops between Honolulu and Tokyo, between Haneda and Narita, and adds seasonal flights on top.

That makes Honolulu useful in two ways. You can fly there as a Hawaii vacation on a Japanese carrier, or you can treat it as a Pacific stop on a longer trip that ends in Tokyo.

Which airports in Japan does it connect to?

From the U.S., ANA lands at Tokyo’s two airports, Haneda and Narita, and nothing else on its nonstop U.S. routes. Which one you arrive at depends on the city you leave from.

Seattle, Houston, Washington, D.C. and New York all fly into Haneda only. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Honolulu split their flights between Haneda and Narita. If you care which airport you land at, the departure city largely decides it, and on the split routes you will want to look at the airport shown for the specific flight before you buy.

Haneda

Haneda is the airport on every one of ANA’s nonstop U.S. routes. It is the only Tokyo arrival for New York, Seattle, Houston and Washington, D.C., and one of two for Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Honolulu.

ANA itself is headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, so the carrier is rooted in the capital it flies you to. For a first visit, that means your trip begins on the same airline’s home turf, with Japanese-language announcements, green tea and the kind of service routines the airline has built over decades.

Narita

Narita appears on the routes from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Honolulu. It has its own place in the airline’s story: ANA flew its first Boeing 787 passenger flight on October 26, 2011, as a charter from Tokyo Narita to Hong Kong.

If your itinerary includes both airports, for example arriving at one and leaving from the other, an open-jaw ticket is a way to avoid backtracking. That is a general habit of how travelers plan, not a rule of the airline.

Beyond Tokyo with a stopover

ANA serves over 100 domestic and international destinations, and it lets travelers use a stopover to explore over 40 destinations within Japan. That is the way the airline invites you to go beyond Tokyo without treating the trip as two separate bookings.

A stopover works well for travelers who want to pair the capital with another part of the country. You land in Tokyo from the U.S., then continue on a domestic leg to a second city, with the airline treating the whole journey as one trip. The specific cities, conditions and fares are set by ANA at the time you book, so the airline’s own booking tool is where you confirm what applies to your dates.

What else should you know before you book?

ANA is a Star Alliance member, and it has been since October 1999, so a trip on ANA can sit alongside other Star Alliance airlines on a longer itinerary. If you already collect miles with a Star Alliance partner, that membership is the first thing to look at.

Miles and the ANA card

For travelers who like to earn points, the ANA CARD U.S.A. Plus gives 5,000 bonus miles after the first purchase using the card. That is a single sign-up bonus tied to the first purchase, so it suits someone who already plans to open a card and wants it to feed an ANA trip.

Alliance membership and a co-branded card are two different ways into the same system. One lets you use miles across partner airlines, the other gives you a way to build a balance with ANA. Neither changes what you pay for a ticket on a given day.

On board

A few details shape the flight itself. Since February 2010, ANA has offered women’s-only lavatories on international flights, a feature some travelers notice and appreciate on a long crossing.

The inflight magazine is called Wingspan. It is available on board and as a free iPad app called Virtual Airport, so you can browse it before you fly or on the way, with Japan in mind well before you land. Reading it on the plane is a pleasant way to start thinking about where you will spend your first morning.

Choosing between the routes

The practical choice comes down to three questions. Which U.S. city is nearest, which Tokyo airport suits your first night, and do you want to add a stopover within Japan. With three daily nonstops from Los Angeles and two each from New York, San Francisco and Chicago, travelers in those cities have more flexibility than someone leaving from Seattle, Houston or Washington, D.C., where there is one flight a day.

If you are flying from a smaller city, you would connect to one of these gateways first. That is a general habit of how people reach long-haul routes, and your booking tool will show the options for your dates.

Good to know before you go

The U.S. State Department rates Japan Level 1: Exercise Normal Precautions.

Everything in Japan is priced in yen, so it helps to think of costs in that currency once you land. Flight schedules and the split between Haneda and Narita can shift, so the airline’s booking page is where you confirm a given date. Once you arrive, a stopover on a domestic ANA flight is a way to reach another part of the country without a separate trip.

Sources

Wikipedia, All Nippon Airways (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Nippon_Airways), checked October 11, 2026
ANA, flights to Tokyo (https://www.ana.co.jp/en/us/), checked October 11, 2026
U.S. Department of State, Japan travel advisory (https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/japan-travel-advisory.html)