The sector is held by ANA and Jet Linx Aviation.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NRT Tokyo to ITM Osaka
Narita International, Japan, to Itami Airport, Japan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 462 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 11m
- Door to door
- 7h 56m
What NRT to ITM looks like
The NRT to ITM sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tokyo NRT to Osaka ITM is a short sector of 462 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 462 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 11m.
Tokyo NRT is a large airport in the network held here, 117 scheduled destinations and 361.5 departures a day. Osaka ITM has 26 destinations and 201 departures a day.
Tokyo and Osaka 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 NRT to ITM from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NRT to ITM | 2.29 | 16 | ANA, Jet Linx Aviation |
| ITM to NRT | 0 | 0 | none held |
Two carriers hold the sector, ANA and Jet Linx Aviation, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
The return leg ITM to NRT carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
Between them the two directions put about 16 departures a week on NRT to ITM, 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 11m block time on NRT to ITM. 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 ITM in the air, estimated | 71 min | 5h 41m |
| Formalities at ITM | 90 min | 7h 11m |
| Delivery run in Osaka | 45 min | 7h 56m |
| Door to door | 476 min | 7h 56m |
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 ITM is 7h 56m.
A courier who leaves Tokyo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Osaka at about 10:11 local and at the door by 12:26 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Osaka, the last useful departure from Tokyo is around 14:34 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. 4 of them join NRT to ITM.
| Connecting at | NRT to hub, flights a day | Hub to ITM, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fukuoka FUK | 14.57 | 12.43 | 1,418 | 3h 54m |
| Sapporo CTS | 22.14 | 11.43 | 1,828 | 4h 30m |
| Okinawa OKA | 8.71 | 6.86 | 2,823 | 5h 37m |
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.
4 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 12.4 times a day.
Through FUK the routing covers 1,418 km against the 462 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 54m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 43m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Sapporo CTS at 4h 30m and Okinawa OKA at 5h 37m 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 Osaka, Osaka KIX is 44 km away by great circle and carries 70 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 Osaka.
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 Osaka 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 ITM 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.
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