The sector is held by Air China, ANA, China Eastern Airlines, China Postal Airlines, China Southern Airlines and Jet Linx Aviation.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NRT Tokyo to PVG Shanghai
Narita International, Japan, to Pudong International, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 14.9 times a day
- Great circle
- 1,796 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 48m
- Door to door
- 9h 33m
What NRT to PVG looks like
The NRT to PVG sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tokyo NRT to Shanghai PVG is a medium haul sector of 1,796 km by great circle, flown nonstop 14.9 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,796 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 48m.
Tokyo NRT is a large airport in the network held here, 117 scheduled destinations and 361.5 departures a day. Shanghai PVG has 206 destinations and 786.7 departures a day.
Shanghai 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 PVG from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NRT to PVG | 14.86 | 104 | Air China, ANA, China Eastern Airlines, China Postal Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Jet Linx Aviation |
| PVG to NRT | 11.71 | 82 | Air China, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Jetstar Japan, Juneyao Airlines, Spring Airlines |
9 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
At 14.9 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 186 departures a week on NRT to PVG, 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 48m block time on NRT to PVG. 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 PVG in the air, estimated | 168 min | 7h 18m |
| Formalities at PVG | 90 min | 8h 48m |
| Delivery run in Shanghai | 45 min | 9h 33m |
| Door to door | 573 min | 9h 33m |
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 PVG is 9h 33m.
A courier who leaves Tokyo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Shanghai at about 10:48 local and at the door by 13:03 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Shanghai, the last useful departure from Tokyo is around 13:57 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. 59 of them join NRT to PVG.
| Connecting at | NRT to hub, flights a day | Hub to PVG, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fukuoka FUK | 14.57 | 4 | 1,796 | 4h 18m |
| Busan PUS | 8.86 | 5.57 | 1,839 | 4h 21m |
| Nagoya NGO | 3.86 | 3.71 | 1,797 | 4h 22m |
| Osaka KIX | 5.71 | 16 | 1,798 | 4h 23m |
| Jeju CJU | 0.71 | 12.71 | 1,807 | 4h 24m |
| Seoul ICN | 49 | 22.43 | 2,079 | 4h 54m |
With 14.9 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.
59 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 times a day.
Through FUK the routing covers 1,796 km against the 1,796 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 18m 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 30m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Busan PUS at 4h 21m and Nagoya NGO at 4h 22m 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 Shanghai, Shanghai SHA is 45 km away by great circle and carries 60 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 Shanghai.
Tokyo NRT, night restrictions: Scheduled movements are limited between 23:00 and 06:00 local; late departures usually route through Haneda instead.
Shanghai PVG, night operations: Operates around the clock.
Plan Tokyo to Shanghai 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 PVG 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
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- Hand carry into China
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- The route calculator
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