The sector is held by Advanced Air, ANA and StarFlyer.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
KIX Osaka to HND Tokyo
Kansai International, Japan, to Tokyo Haneda, Japan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 15.1 times a day
- Great circle
- 432 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 08m
- Door to door
- 7h 53m
What KIX to HND looks like
The KIX to HND sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Osaka KIX to Tokyo HND is a short sector of 432 km by great circle, flown nonstop 15.1 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 432 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 08m.
Osaka KIX is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 70 scheduled destinations and 267.1 departures a day. Tokyo HND has 105 destinations and 738.1 departures a day.
Tokyo carries about 2.8 times the departures of Osaka, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Osaka and Tokyo keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
The pair sits inside Asia Pacific, a corridor where the site already publishes 16 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on KIX to HND from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIX to HND | 15.14 | 106 | Advanced Air, ANA, StarFlyer |
| HND to KIX | 2 | 14 | StarFlyer |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
The two directions are not level: KIX to HND runs 15.1 times a day, the return runs about twice a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
At 15.1 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 120 departures a week on KIX to HND, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 1h 08m block time on KIX to HND. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to KIX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At KIX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| KIX to HND in the air, estimated | 68 min | 5h 38m |
| Formalities at HND | 90 min | 7h 08m |
| Delivery run in Tokyo | 45 min | 7h 53m |
| Door to door | 473 min | 7h 53m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for KIX to HND is 7h 53m.
A courier who leaves Osaka at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tokyo at about 10:08 local and at the door by 12:23 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tokyo, the last useful departure from Osaka is around 14:37 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 26 of them join KIX to HND.
| Connecting at | KIX to hub, flights a day | Hub to HND, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fukuoka FUK | 4.57 | 63 | 1,333 | 3h 48m |
| Sapporo CTS | 14.43 | 80.43 | 1,903 | 4h 26m |
| Seoul GMP | 11.47 | 13.86 | 2,016 | 4h 34m |
| Seoul ICN | 42.29 | 1.14 | 2,069 | 4h 54m |
| Okinawa OKA | 10.86 | 44.57 | 2,723 | 5h 29m |
| Shanghai PVG | 16 | 6.86 | 3,044 | 6h 23m |
With 15.1 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
26 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Fukuoka FUK, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4.6 times a day.
Through FUK the routing covers 1,333 km against the 432 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 48m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 40m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Sapporo CTS at 4h 26m and Seoul GMP at 4h 34m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 432 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 6h 45m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
If nothing suitable leaves Osaka, Osaka ITM is 44 km away by great circle and carries 26 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Tokyo, Tokyo NRT is 60 km away by great circle and carries 117 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Restricted hours at either end
Widely documented operating restrictions, checked 2026-09-07. Exemptions and seasonal variations exist, so confirm with the carrier before relying on any of them.
Tokyo HND, night operations: Operates around the clock; the preferred Tokyo gate for a late departure.
Plan Osaka to Tokyo yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for KIX to HND in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The KIX airport entry
- The HND airport entry
- Hand carry into Japan
- The written lane, Dubai to Osaka
- The route calculator
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