The sector is held by ANA and China Southern Airlines.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NRT Tokyo to CAN Guangzhou
Narita International, Japan, to Guangzhou Baiyun, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 2,944 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 16m
- Door to door
- 11h 01m
What NRT to CAN looks like
The NRT to CAN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tokyo NRT to Guangzhou CAN is a medium haul sector of 2,944 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,944 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 16m.
Tokyo NRT is a large airport in the network held here, 117 scheduled destinations and 361.5 departures a day. Guangzhou CAN has 198 destinations and 823.8 departures a day.
Guangzhou 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 NRT to CAN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NRT to CAN | 1.29 | 9 | ANA, China Southern Airlines |
| CAN to NRT | 0.71 | 5 | China Southern Airlines |
Two carriers hold the sector, ANA and China Southern Airlines, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
The two directions are not level: NRT to CAN runs about once a day, the return runs 5 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 14 departures a week on NRT to CAN, 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 4h 16m block time on NRT to CAN. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to NRT | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At NRT before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| NRT to CAN in the air, estimated | 256 min | 8h 46m |
| Formalities at CAN | 90 min | 10h 16m |
| Delivery run in Guangzhou | 45 min | 11h 01m |
| Door to door | 661 min | 11h 01m |
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 NRT to CAN is 11h 01m.
A courier who leaves Tokyo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Guangzhou at about 12:16 local and at the door by 14:31 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Guangzhou, the last useful departure from Tokyo is around 12:29 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. 48 of them join NRT to CAN.
| Connecting at | NRT to hub, flights a day | Hub to CAN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osaka KIX | 5.71 | 1.43 | 2,946 | 5h 51m |
| Xiamen XMN | 1.71 | 6 | 2,975 | 5h 54m |
| Fuzhou FOC | 1.71 | 6.29 | 2,955 | 5h 55m |
| Taipei TPE | 25.57 | 2.86 | 3,007 | 6h 05m |
| Hangzhou HGH | 1 | 37.29 | 2,994 | 6h 05m |
| Hong Kong HKG | 24.29 | 3.43 | 3,098 | 6h 14m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at NRT in the afternoon actually flies on.
48 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Osaka KIX, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through KIX the routing covers 2,946 km against the 2,944 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 51m 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 35m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Xiamen XMN at 5h 54m and Fuzhou FOC at 5h 55m 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 HND is 60 km away by great circle and carries 105 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Guangzhou, Shenzhen SZX is 99 km away by great circle and carries 157 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 NRT is shut to scheduled movements between 23:00 and 06:00 local, so a collection in Tokyo that runs late does not simply catch a later flight, it waits for the morning and loses a working day in Guangzhou.
Tokyo NRT, night restrictions: Scheduled movements are limited between 23:00 and 06:00 local; late departures usually route through Haneda instead.
Plan Tokyo to Guangzhou 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 NRT to CAN 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 NRT airport entry
- The CAN airport entry
- Hand carry into Japan
- Hand carry into China
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Tokyo
- The written lane, Bangkok to Tokyo
- The written lane, Doha to Tokyo
- The route calculator
More pairs through NRT and CAN: Guangzhou to Seoul, Guangzhou to Singapore, Beijing to Guangzhou, Shanghai to Guangzhou, Guangzhou to London, Kuala Lumpur to Guangzhou, Bangkok to Guangzhou, Amsterdam to Guangzhou.