The sector is held by ANA, China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines and Jet Linx Aviation.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
SHA Shanghai to HND Tokyo
Hongqiao International, China, to Tokyo Haneda, Japan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4.6 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,777 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 46m
- Door to door
- 9h 31m
What SHA to HND looks like
The SHA to HND sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Shanghai SHA to Tokyo HND is a medium haul sector of 1,777 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4.6 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,777 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 46m.
Shanghai SHA is a mid sized airport in the network held here, 60 scheduled destinations and 423.4 departures a day. Tokyo HND has 105 destinations and 738.1 departures a day.
Tokyo is one hour ahead of Shanghai all year.
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 SHA to HND from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHA to HND | 4.57 | 32 | ANA, China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines |
| HND to SHA | 3.43 | 24 | ANA, Jet Linx Aviation, Shanghai Airlines |
4 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 4.6 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 56 departures a week on SHA 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 2h 46m block time on SHA 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 SHA | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At SHA before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| SHA to HND in the air, estimated | 166 min | 7h 16m |
| Formalities at HND | 90 min | 8h 46m |
| Delivery run in Tokyo | 45 min | 9h 31m |
| Door to door | 571 min | 9h 31m |
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 SHA to HND is 9h 31m.
A courier who leaves Shanghai at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tokyo at about 12:46 local and at the door by 15:01 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tokyo, the last useful departure from Shanghai is around 11:59 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. 7 of them join SHA to HND.
| Connecting at | SHA to hub, flights a day | Hub to HND, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seoul GMP | 4.57 | 13.86 | 2,046 | 4h 36m |
| Taipei TSA | 4.29 | 9.14 | 2,779 | 5h 41m |
| Beijing PKX | 6.86 | 1.86 | 3,127 | 6h 15m |
| Beijing PEK | 38 | 9.86 | 3,168 | 6h 32m |
| Guangzhou CAN | 45 | 2.29 | 4,061 | 7h 26m |
| Shenzhen SZX | 46.14 | 1.14 | 4,098 | 7h 29m |
With 4.6 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.
7 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Seoul GMP, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4.6 times a day.
Through GMP the routing covers 2,046 km against the 1,777 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 36m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 50m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Taipei TSA at 5h 41m and Beijing PKX at 6h 15m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Shanghai, Shanghai PVG is 45 km away by great circle and carries 206 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 Shanghai 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 SHA 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 SHA airport entry
- The HND airport entry
- Hand carry into China
- Hand carry into Japan
- The route calculator
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