The list is worked in order of who can reach the aircraft. A courier 1 hour 6 minutes from HND is called before one who is three hours away, every time, because the consignment does not wait. That is the practical value of a Tokorozawa address to this desk.
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On Board Courier, Tokorozawa
Freelance on board courier assignments for Tokorozawa. 105 nonstop destinations from HND, 1 hour 6 minutes of driving to reach it, no charge to apply and no minimum commitment.
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 inTokorozawa, Saitama
Nearest gateHND · Tokyo
Drive to the aircraft56 km · 1 hour 6 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
The offer names the flight out of HND, the hour you should leave Tokorozawa and the fee, all before you commit to anything. The Gulf sector out of HND is nonstop, so there is no connection to miss. You accept in writing, and from that point the desk owns the arrangements and you own the consignment.
Getting to the aircraft from Tokorozawa
How far Tokorozawa is from an aircraft: 56 km by road to HND, 1 hour 6 minutes of it. Any other airport a courier in Tokorozawa can reach is listed underneath with its own measured drive.
The desk will usually ask you to leave Tokorozawa about three hours before departure, and earlier where the bag drop at HND closes sooner. The backup gate for Tokorozawa is Tokyo Narita, 1 hour 45 minutes by road. It carries 117 nonstop destinations, and the desk uses whichever airport has the flight.
| IATA | Airport | By road | Driving time | Nonstop |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HND | Tokyo Haneda | 56 km | 1 hour 6 minutes | 105 |
| NRT | Tokyo Narita | 108 km | 1 hour 45 minutes | 117 |
Tokorozawa is a city of 344,000 people in Saitama, 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
From HND the desk can reach 105 airports in 27 countries on a single aircraft. That number, rather than the size of Tokorozawa, decides how often the phone rings here.
| 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 Tokorozawa can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 165 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 Tokorozawa
There is no public industrial register for Tokorozawa on this site and none is going to be improvised. What travels by hand out of Tokorozawa is what travels by hand everywhere: originals, parts, samples and valuables.
Why a courier in Tokorozawa is useful to the desk
This is not a branch office in Tokorozawa and it is not a promise of daily work. It is a list. The desk keeps names near HND so that when a consignment appears in Saitama there is somebody 1 hour 6 minutes away who can take it.
What a Gulf assignment looks like from Tokorozawa, without the marketing. From Tokorozawthe 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 Tokorozawa 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 Tokorozawa
Kawagoe12 km away, HND in 1 hour 8 minutesSaitama21 km away, HND in 58 minutesKawaguchi22 km away, HND in 50 minutesAihara26 km away, HND in 1 hour 14 minutesMachida29 km away, HND in 56 minutesMatsudo39 km away, HND in 52 minutesYokohama44 km away, HND in 36 minutesFujisawa50 km away, HND in 1 hour 2 minutesYokosuka60 km away, HND in 1 hour 1 minutesChiba63 km away, NRT in 36 minutesTakasaki72 km away, HND in 2 hours 1 minutesUtsunomiya93 km away, HND in 2 hours 11 minutes
All 44 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 1 hour 6 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 Tokorozawa list
01How far is Tokorozawa from HND?
It is 56 km from Tokorozawa to HND, about 1 hour 6 minutes on clear roads. That figure is recorded for Tokorozawa as it is for every city on the list, and it is what decides who gets called tonight.
02What can I reach from Tokorozawa without a change of aircraft?
HND serves 105 airports nonstop across 27 countries with 48 operating carriers, and counting every gate a courier in Tokorozawa can drive to, the combined nonstop board is 165 airports. That is the practical range of a single assignment from here before anybody has to connect.
03Getting from Tokorozawa to the Emirates: nonstop or not?
From Tokorozawthe 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 Tokorozawa 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. OnBoard Courier is a UAE company and assignments are contracted under UAE law, but the couriers themselves live in places like Tokorozawa.
05Does it cost anything to apply?
Applying from Tokorozawa is free and always will be. The only money that moves from a courier in Tokorozawa to us is AED 199 for the Academy, and it comes straight back on your first assignment.
06How is my fee agreed?
The fee for an assignment out of HND is set before departure and settled by bank transfer after the handover is signed and photographed.
Apply to fly out of HND
It costs nothing to be on the Tokorozawa list and nothing to say no. Tell us how quickly you can be at HND and we will take it from there.
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