Every assignment starts with an airport, and yours is HND. The desk holds a consignment that is late, valuable or perishable, finds the first departure that fits, and then looks for a courier who can be at the counter in time. Shizuoka is 2 hours 28 minutes out, which puts you inside the window for most of 105 nonstop destinations.
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On Board Courier, Shizuoka
If you are in Shizuoka you are 2 hours 28 minutes from Tokyo Haneda and 105 scheduled nonstop destinations. That is the whole starting qualification. Freelance, per assignment, ticket paid.
OnBoard Courier is a United Arab Emirates company, contracted by ICSL FZE and run from Dubai. A city named on this site is a place we cover and route through, not a separate company in that city. Assignments are contracted under UAE law, and the terms are published in full under legal and policies.
Based inShizuoka, Shizuoka
Nearest gateHND · Tokyo
Drive to the aircraft189 km · 2 hours 28 minutes
Nonstop from HND105 airports
EngagementFreelance · per assignment
Fee per assignmentAED 900 to 2,600
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Applying is free. Freelance · self-employed ·
posted 7 September 2026 · open until 7 March 2027
What the work pays
The fee for an assignment is agreed with you in writing before you accept it. These are the figures the site publishes, and what the desk covers on top of them.
Top published feeAED 2,000The highest fee the site shows for a single assignment: sealed medical samples in a cooled case, Dubai to Singapore.
Published band, per assignmentAED 900 to 2,600A document pouch to London is AED 1,200, an aircraft part to Frankfurt AED 1,500, an escorted watch on the Berlin lane AED 1,800.
What the flight costs youAED 0The desk books and pays the ticket, the transfers and, where the routing needs it, the hotel. A courier never fronts the fare.
The one payment you makeAED 199, returnedThe Academy, paid once. It comes back in full on top of the fee for your first completed assignment. Applying itself is free.
Fees vary with the lane, the notice, the waiting time and whether the return is immediate, so the desk quotes each assignment individually rather than pretending one number fits every trip. You are self-employed and there is no minimum: accept or decline whatever you like, and declining costs you nothing. Earnings are paid per delivery by bank transfer, they appear in your courier portal, and you can request a payout once the balance reaches AED 200. Apply and see the flight board.
You fly as a passengerOne consignment in the cabin, one handover against signature. No warehouse, no van, no round.
The desk books and pays the ticketFlight, transfers and, where the routing needs it, a hotel are booked before you leave for the airport.
Paid per assignmentA fee agreed in writing before you accept, paid to your bank account after the signature. Applying is free.
How to start, in four steps
1
Apply once
One application covers every country desk. Tell us which passports you hold and where you can travel.
2
Verification and the Academy
Identity and background check, then a short course on customs, handovers and chain of custody.
3
Your first offer
The desk sends the routing, the dates and the fee in writing. You accept or decline, nothing is automatic.
4
Fly, hand over, get paid
Collect, board, clear customs in person, hand over against signature, and the fee is paid to your account.
The assignment
There is no roster and no shift on the Shizuoka list. An assignment is a single trip: accept the offer, collect, drive 189 km to HND, board, land, clear, hand over. The Gulf sector out of HND is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. Then you go home or you wait for a return leg, and the desk books and pays for either.
Getting to the aircraft from Shizuoka
The ground leg from Shizuoka is 189 km to Tokyo Haneda, about 2 hours 28 minutes. Where a second airport is within reach of Shizuoka it is listed too, because the desk will use whichever one has the flight.
189 km is a long ground leg by the standards of this list. At 2 hours 28 minutes the desk treats the drive as part of the assignment, plans it explicitly, and will book you into a hotel by HND the night before rather than gamble on an early start. Shizuoka has more than one way out, which is unusual and useful. NGO at 2 hours 30 minutes adds 46 nonstop destinations to the 105 at HND.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HND | Tokyo Haneda | 189 km | 2 hours 28 minutes | 105 |
| NGO | Tokoname Chubu Centrair | 186 km | 2 hours 30 minutes | 46 |
Shizuoka is a city of 693,000 people in Shizuoka, and the clock there runs 5 hours ahead of the Emirates all year. Road distances are measured driving routes rather than straight lines, and nonstop counts come from the scheduled route data this site publishes.
What HND reaches without a change
Scheduled reach from Tokyo Haneda: 105 nonstop destinations, 27 countries, 48 operating carriers. Frequencies below are average daily flights from the site’s own route data.
| IATA | City | Airport | Frequency | Operators |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CTS | Chitose / Tomakomai | Chitose / Tomakomai New Chitose | about 67 departures a day | 6 operators: ANA, Japan Airlines, Skymark Airlines |
| FUK | Fukuoka | Fukuoka | about 64 departures a day | 4 operators: ANA, Japan Airlines, Skymark Airlines |
| OKA | Naha | Naha | about 41 departures a day | 4 operators: ANA, Japan Airlines, Skymark Airlines |
| ITM | Osaka | Osaka | about 34 departures a day | 3 operators: ANA, Japan Airlines |
| KOJ | Kagoshima | Kagoshima | about 25 departures a day | 4 operators: ANA, Japan Airlines, Skymark Airlines |
| KMJ | Kumamoto | Kumamoto | about 21 departures a day | 3 operators: ANA, Japan Airlines |
| KMI | Miyazaki | Miyazaki | about 19 departures a day | 3 operators: ANA, Japan Airlines |
| HIJ | Hiroshima | Hiroshima | about 17 departures a day | 2 operators: ANA, Japan Airlines |
| NGS | Nagasaki | Nagasaki | about 17 departures a day | 3 operators: ANA, Japan Airlines |
| KKJ | Kitakyūshū | Kitakyūshū | about 16 departures a day | 4 operators: ANA, Japan Airlines, StarFlyer |
Counting every airport a courier in Shizuoka can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 117 airports. Frequencies are average daily flights and change with the season, so the desk checks the live schedule before it offers you anything.
What moves out of Shizuoka
No public industrial file exists here for Shizuoka, so none is claimed. Urgent hand carry demand in a city this size comes from deadlines, not from a single plant: a court filing, a machine that stopped, a batch that has to be tested.
Why a courier in Shizuoka is useful to the desk
Hand carry is a business of catchments, and Shizuoka is inside one. Shizuoka sits inside the catchment of Tokyo Haneda, 189 km out, which means a consignment collected in the city in the morning is airborne the same day rather than the next one.
The Emirates end of the lane looks like this from HND. From Shizuokthe Gulf is a single sector: HND and DXB are joined nonstop, about one departure a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 9h 55m in the air over 7,950 km, and it means a consignment can leave Shizuoka in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
The nearest other cities on the Japan list
Show the 12 closest, and how far each is from Shizuoka
Hamamatsu67 km away, NGO in 1 hour 49 minutesAihara109 km away, HND in 1 hour 14 minutesYokohama125 km away, HND in 36 minutesNagoya136 km away, NGO in 52 minutesChiba172 km away, NRT in 36 minutesKyoto240 km away, ITM in 56 minutesOsaka265 km away, ITM in 26 minutesKobe294 km away, ITM in 47 minutesHimeji336 km away, ITM in 1 hour 19 minutesKitakyushu702 km away, FUK in 1 hour 12 minutesFukuoka748 km away, FUK in 20 minutesKumamoto750 km away, FUK in 1 hour 41 minutes
All 14 Japan cities are listed on the Japan courier desk, which stays the general application for the country.
The engagement, and who we are looking for
The engagement
- Type: freelance, self-employed. You are an independent courier accepting individual assignments, not an employee, and you decide which ones you take.
- Where it runs: assignments are flown out of HND and the other airports listed above, between Japan and wherever the consignment is going, with the return leg agreed per mission.
- Hours: variable. An assignment is a single trip, not a shift or a roster.
- How you are paid: a fee per completed assignment, agreed in writing before you accept it. The fees published on this site run from AED 1,200 for a document pouch to AED 2,000 for a cooled medical consignment, and the figure for your assignment reflects the lane, the notice, the waiting time and whether the return is immediate.
- What the desk pays: the flight, the transfers and, where the routing needs it, the hotel. A courier never pays for the ticket and never fronts the fare.
- Applying is free. No payment is required to apply, to be screened or to be placed on the courier list. The Academy costs AED 199, paid once, and is returned in full on top of the fee for your first completed assignment. It is the only payment a courier ever makes to us.
What we look for
- A passport with comfortable remaining validity and free pages, and the right to enter the country on the routing. The desk checks the visa position for your specific passport before any assignment is offered.
- A clean background check and a willingness to be verified. Couriers carry other people’s property.
- Availability at short notice, and a realistic view of the 2 hours 28 minutes drive to HND. Most assignments are confirmed hours, not days, before departure.
- Presentable, calm and articulate at a customs counter. The consignment is only as smooth as the person carrying it.
- A working phone, reachable on the number you gave us, for the whole assignment.
What we provide
- The ticket. Always. A courier never pays for the flight and never fronts the fare.
- The paperwork, prepared before you reach HND, and a named contact at the desk on both ends.
- A briefing on the consignment, the consignee and what the customs position at the far end looks like.
- A fee per completed assignment, agreed with you in advance and paid by bank transfer after the handover.
Questions about the Shizuoka list
01How far is Shizuoka from HND?
2 hours 28 minutes and 189 km on a measured route. Whether that is a comfortable drive depends on the hour, so the offer names the time you should leave Shizuoka rather than only the departure time.
02What can I reach from Shizuoka without a change of aircraft?
HND serves 105 airports nonstop across 27 countries with 48 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Shizuoka can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 117 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Shizuoka to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Shizuokthe Gulf is a single sector: HND and DXB are joined nonstop, about one departure a day, flown by Emirates. That is roughly 9h 55m in the air over 7,950 km, and it means a consignment can leave Shizuoka in the evening and be in the Gulf before the next working day starts.
04Do I have to live in the UAE to be on this list?
No. The company is Emirati and the coordination happens in Dubai, but couriers live in places like Shizuoka. The Shizuoka list exists because somebody has to be near HND when a consignment appears in Shizuoka.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
It is free to apply from Shizuoka and free to be screened. The one charge anywhere in the process is the AED 199 Academy, paid once and refunded on top of your first assignment fee.
06How is my fee agreed?
The desk sends the routing, the timing and the fee for that specific assignment in writing. You accept or decline it. Nothing is deducted or charged without your written agreement.
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