The sector is held by Jet Linx Aviation and Spring Airlines Japan.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
NRT Tokyo to TSN Tianjin
Narita International, Japan, to Tianjin Binhai, China. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 2,062 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 08m
- Door to door
- 9h 53m
What NRT to TSN looks like
The NRT to TSN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Tokyo NRT to Tianjin TSN is a medium haul sector of 2,062 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,062 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 08m.
Tokyo NRT is a large airport in the network held here, 117 scheduled destinations and 361.5 departures a day. Tianjin TSN has 79 destinations and 183.7 departures a day.
Tianjin 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 TSN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| NRT to TSN | 1.57 | 11 | Jet Linx Aviation, Spring Airlines Japan |
| TSN to NRT | 1.14 | 8 | Spring Airlines Japan |
Two carriers hold the sector, Jet Linx Aviation and Spring Airlines Japan, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
The two directions are not level: NRT to TSN runs about once 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 19 departures a week on NRT to TSN, 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 08m block time on NRT to TSN. 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 TSN in the air, estimated | 188 min | 7h 38m |
| Formalities at TSN | 90 min | 9h 08m |
| Delivery run in Tianjin | 45 min | 9h 53m |
| Door to door | 593 min | 9h 53m |
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 TSN is 9h 53m.
A courier who leaves Tokyo at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tianjin at about 11:08 local and at the door by 13:23 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tianjin, the last useful departure from Tokyo is around 13:37 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. 16 of them join NRT to TSN.
| Connecting at | NRT to hub, flights a day | Hub to TSN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seoul ICN | 49 | 6 | 2,072 | 4h 53m |
| Harbin HRB | 1.57 | 5 | 2,642 | 5h 23m |
| Shanghai PVG | 14.86 | 5.86 | 2,771 | 6h 03m |
| Hangzhou HGH | 1 | 4.72 | 2,984 | 6h 04m |
| Fuzhou FOC | 1.71 | 2.45 | 3,735 | 6h 47m |
| Xiamen XMN | 1.71 | 4.86 | 4,091 | 7h 13m |
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.
16 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Seoul ICN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 6 times a day.
Through ICN the routing covers 2,072 km against the 2,062 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 53m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 45m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Harbin HRB at 5h 23m and Shanghai PVG at 6h 03m 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 Tianjin, Beijing PKX is 91 km away by great circle and carries 159 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 Tianjin.
Tokyo NRT, night restrictions: Scheduled movements are limited between 23:00 and 06:00 local; late departures usually route through Haneda instead.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through NRT or TSN. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus, TianjinA320 family final assembly and A350 completion. The longest supply line Airbus runs, and the one most exposed to a missing part. Logistics through Tianjin TSN.
Plan Tokyo to Tianjin 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 TSN 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.
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- Hand carry into China
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