Distance between Istanbul and Tokyo (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Istanbul (Turkey) and Tokyo (Japan) is 8,946 km (5,559 miles), as the crow flies, measured from one city centre to the other. It is the shortest path over the Earth's surface; any road between them is longer.
Straight-line distance
8,946 km
5,559 miles · straight line
Heading from Istanbul
50° (northeast)
initial compass bearing to Tokyo
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~11 h 10 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
IstanbulTokyoThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Istanbul to Tokyo at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 8,946 km (5,559 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Istanbul
- 50° (northeast) to Tokyo
- Heading from Tokyo
- 314° (northwest) to Istanbul
- Midpoint
- 54.2753° N, 87.3700° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 11 h 10 min in the air at a cruising speed of 800 km/h along the straight line. Take-off, landing, the real flight path and any stops add more.
- Istanbul, Turkey
- 41.0138° N, 28.9497° E (city centre)
- Tokyo, Japan
- 35.6895° N, 139.6917° E (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Istanbul
- Istanbul to Cairo1,235 km
- Istanbul to Rome1,371 km
- Istanbul to Berlin1,736 km
- Istanbul to Amsterdam2,211 km
- Istanbul to Barcelona2,233 km
- Istanbul to Paris2,253 km
Other distances from Tokyo
- Tokyo to Hong Kong2,882 km
- Tokyo to Bangkok4,603 km
- Tokyo to Singapore5,318 km
- Tokyo to Delhi5,834 km
- Tokyo to Mumbai6,724 km
- Tokyo to Sydney7,826 km
Questions
Is 8,946 km (5,559 miles) the driving distance from Istanbul to Tokyo?
No. 8,946 km (5,559 miles) is the straight-line distance between the two city centres, as the crow flies. A road route is always longer, because roads bend around terrain and water, and MapGO does not measure driving distance or travel time.
How is the distance between Istanbul and Tokyo measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Istanbul's centre (41.0138° N, 28.9497° E) to Tokyo's (35.6895° N, 139.6917° E). This is what "straight-line distance" and "as the crow flies" mean on a globe. On a flat map the line can look curved.
How accurate is this distance?
Within about 0.5% for the two centre points. The figure treats the Earth as a sphere (the haversine formula), while the real Earth is slightly flattened, which shifts a long straight-line distance by up to about 0.5%. Measuring from another part of either city changes it more, since a large city can be tens of kilometres across.
Computed by MapGO from each city's centre point (GeoNames) with the haversine formula. All distances on this page are straight lines over the Earth's surface, not road distances.