The sector is held by Malta Medair, Tigerair Taiwan and ANA.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
HND Tokyo to TPE Taipei
Tokyo Haneda, Japan, to Taoyuan International, Taiwan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 2,122 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 13m
- Door to door
- 9h 58m
What HND to TPE looks like
The HND to TPE sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tokyo HND to Taipei TPE is a medium haul sector of 2,122 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,122 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 13m.
Tokyo HND is a large airport in the network held here, 105 scheduled destinations and 738.1 departures a day. Taipei TPE has 108 destinations and 382.9 departures a day.
Taipei is one hour behind of Tokyo 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 HND to TPE from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| HND to TPE | 2.29 | 16 | Malta Medair, Tigerair Taiwan |
| TPE to HND | 1.29 | 9 | ANA, Tigerair Taiwan |
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: HND to TPE runs about twice a day, the return runs about once a day, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 25.1 departures a week on HND to TPE, 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 3h 13m block time on HND to TPE. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to HND | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At HND before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| HND to TPE in the air, estimated | 193 min | 7h 43m |
| Formalities at TPE | 90 min | 9h 13m |
| Delivery run in Taipei | 45 min | 9h 58m |
| Door to door | 598 min | 9h 58m |
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 HND to TPE is 9h 58m.
A courier who leaves Tokyo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Taipei at about 11:13 local and at the door by 13:28 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Taipei, the last useful departure from Tokyo is around 13:32 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. 40 of them join HND to TPE.
| Connecting at | HND to hub, flights a day | Hub to TPE, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nagoya NGO | 3.57 | 8.14 | 2,130 | 4h 47m |
| Fukuoka FUK | 64 | 9.57 | 2,181 | 4h 48m |
| Osaka KIX | 2 | 21.57 | 2,135 | 4h 48m |
| Okinawa OKA | 41 | 16 | 2,209 | 4h 57m |
| Seoul ICN | 3.43 | 14.14 | 2,673 | 5h 40m |
| Shanghai PVG | 4.43 | 11.29 | 2,414 | 5h 43m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at HND in the afternoon actually flies on.
40 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Nagoya NGO, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 3.6 times a day.
Through NGO the routing covers 2,130 km against the 2,122 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 47m 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 34m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Fukuoka FUK at 4h 48m and Osaka KIX at 4h 48m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
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.
If nothing suitable leaves Taipei, Fuzhou FOC is 184 km away by great circle and carries 80 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.
Taipei TPE, night operations: Operates around the clock.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through HND or TPE. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- TSMC, HsinchuThe largest contract chip manufacturer in the world. European lithography, Taiwanese fabs, and a clock that runs in fab hours. Logistics through Taipei TPE.
Plan Tokyo to Taipei 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 HND to TPE 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 HND airport entry
- The TPE airport entry
- Hand carry into Japan
- Hand carry into Taiwan
- The written lane, Amsterdam to Taipei
- The written lane, Dubai to Taipei
- The written lane, Eindhoven to Taipei
- The route calculator
More pairs through HND and TPE: Tokyo to Singapore, Osaka to Tokyo, Tokyo to Hong Kong, Tokyo to Dubai, Nagoya to Tokyo, Tokyo to Sydney, Tokyo to Manila, Tokyo to Delhi.