There are 6 ways to get from Sandakan to Osaka by plane, train, or bus
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Fly Sandakan Airport to Kobe
best- Fly from Sandakan Airport (SDK) to Kobe (UKB)plane SDK - UKB
16h 19m¥40,784–122,263Bus to Kota Kinabalu Airport, fly to Kobe
cheapest- Take the bus from Sandakan to Kota Kinabalu North Bus Terminal Inanambus
- Fly from Kota Kinabalu Airport (BKI) to Kobe (UKB)plane BKI - UKB
19h 39m¥39,875–121,501Fly Sandakan Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport, train
- Fly from Sandakan Airport (SDK) to Chūbu Centrair International Airport (NGO)plane SDK - NGO
- Take the train from Nagoya to Shin Osakatrain
16h 40mFly Sandakan Airport to Okayama Airport, train
- Fly from Sandakan Airport (SDK) to Okayama Airport (OKJ)plane SDK - OKJ
- Take the train from Okayama to Shin Osakatrain
18h 59m¥44,784–125,263Fly Sandakan Airport to Takamatsu Airport, train
- Fly from Sandakan Airport (SDK) to Takamatsu Airport (TAK)plane SDK - TAK
- Take the train from Takamatsu(Kagawa) to Okayamatrain
- Take the train from Okayama to Shin Osakatrain
18h 20m¥44,184–127,013Bus to Kota Kinabalu Airport, fly to Chūbu Centrair International Airport, train
- Take the bus from Sandakan to Kota Kinabalu North Bus Terminal Inanambus
- Fly from Kota Kinabalu Airport (BKI) to Chūbu Centrair International Airport (NGO)plane BKI - NGO
- Take the train from Nagoya to Shin Osakatrain
19h 54m
Sandakan Airport (SDK) to Kobe (UKB) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Sandakan to Osaka is to bus and fly which costs ¥39000 - ¥130000 and takes 19h 39m.
The fastest way to get from Sandakan to Osaka is to fly which takes 16h 19m and costs ¥40000 - ¥130000.
The distance between Sandakan and Osaka is 3706 km.
It takes approximately 16h 19m to get from Sandakan to Osaka, including transfers.
Osaka is 1h ahead of Sandakan. It is currently 8:42 AM in Sandakan and 9:42 AM in Osaka.
There are 9506+ hotels available in Osaka.
What companies run services between Sandakan, Malaysia and Osaka, Japan?
AirAsia, Korean Air, and two other airlines fly from Sandakan Airport (SDK) to Kobe (UKB) 3 times a day.
- Website
- koreanair.com
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Kobe via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥44,000–140,000
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Okayama Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥45,000–140,000
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Okayama Airport via Kuala Lumpur, Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥55,000–230,000
Flights from Kota Kinabalu Airport to Kobe via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥41,000–130,000
Flights from Kota Kinabalu Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥44,000–110,000
- Website
- jal.com
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Taiwan Taoyuan
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥34,000–100,000
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥44,000–110,000
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Okayama Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥45,000–140,000
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Okayama Airport via Kuala Lumpur, Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 30m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥55,000–180,000
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Takamatsu Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Taiwan Taoyuan
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥39,000–120,000
Flights from Kota Kinabalu Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 8h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥41,000–110,000
- Website
- evaair.com
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Kobe via Kuala Lumpur, Taiwan Taoyuan
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 15m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- ¥80,000–200,000
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Kobe via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Taiwan Taoyuan
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥39,000–120,000
Flights from Kota Kinabalu Airport to Kobe via Taiwan Taoyuan
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥36,000–110,000
Flights from Kota Kinabalu Airport to Kobe via Bandar Seri Begawan, Taiwan Taoyuan
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 55m
- When
- Tuesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥44,000–120,000
- Website
- jinair.com
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Gimhae
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 10m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥31,000–90,000
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Lahad Datu, Kota Kinabalu Airport, Gimhae
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 35m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥31,000–95,000
Flights from Kota Kinabalu Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Gimhae
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 35m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥29,000–85,000
- Website
- ana.co.jp
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 50m
- When
- Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥36,000–100,000
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Manila
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥41,000–160,000
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Okayama Airport via Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo Haneda
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥85,000–650,000
- Website
- en.ceair.com
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥44,000–110,000
Flights from Kota Kinabalu Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 2m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥39,000–130,000
- Website
- china-airlines.com
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Taiwan Taoyuan
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥34,000–100,000
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Takamatsu Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Taiwan Taoyuan
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥39,000–120,000
- Website
- tigerairtw.com
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Okayama Airport via Kuala Lumpur, Kaohsiung
- Ave. Duration
- 18h
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥60,000–170,000
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Okayama Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Taiwan Taoyuan
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 40m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥41,000–120,000
- Website
- flyairseoul.com
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Takamatsu Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥44,000–130,000
- Website
- hkexpress.com
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Takamatsu Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 55m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥50,000–120,000
Flights from Kota Kinabalu Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥43,000–100,000
- Website
- jejuair.net
Flights from Kota Kinabalu Airport to Kobe via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥49,000–130,000
Flights from Kota Kinabalu Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥42,000–110,000
- Website
- airchina.com
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 50m
- When
- Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥36,000–100,000
- Website
- philippineairlines.com
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Manila
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥41,000–160,000
- Website
- en.airbusan.com
Flights from Sandakan Airport to Takamatsu Airport via Kota Kinabalu Airport, Gimhae
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 50m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥36,000–110,000
- Website
- ch.com
Flights from Kota Kinabalu Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- When
- Friday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥41,000–110,000
- Phone
- 050-3772-3910
- Website
- jr-central.co.jp
Train from Nagoya to Shin Osaka
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Website
- https://global.jr-central.co.jp/en/
- Schedules at
- https://www.westjr.co.jp/global/en/
Train from Okayama to Shin Osaka
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://global.jr-central.co.jp/en/
- Schedules at
- https://www.westjr.co.jp/global/en/
Train from Okayama to Shin Osaka
- Ave. Duration
- 38 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- https://global.jr-central.co.jp/en/
- Schedules at
- https://www.westjr.co.jp/global/en/
Train from Nagoya to Shin Osaka
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Website
- https://global.jr-central.co.jp/en/
- Schedules at
- https://www.westjr.co.jp/global/en/
- Phone
- 0570-00-2486
- Website
- westjr.co.jp
Train from Okayama to Shin Osaka
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- ¥2,300–3,300
- Schedules at
- westjr.co.jp
Train from Okayama to Shin Osaka
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- ¥2,300–3,300
- Schedules at
- westjr.co.jp
- Phone
- (050) 2016-1603
- Website
- jrhokkaido.co.jp
Train from Takamatsu(Kagawa) to Okayama
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- ¥1,200–1,700
- Website
- https://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/global/index.html
- Website
- https://www.jreast.co.jp/multi/en/
- Website
- https://global.jr-central.co.jp/en/
- Website
- https://www.westjr.co.jp/global/en/
- Website
- https://www.jr-shikoku.co.jp/global/en/
- Website
- https://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/english/
- Phone
- 0570-00-4592
- Website
- jr-shikoku.co.jp
Train from Takamatsu(Kagawa) to Okayama
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Schedules at
- jr-shikoku.co.jp
- Phone
- +60 198072570
- Website
- redbus.my
Bus from Sandakan to Kota Kinabalu North Bus Terminal Inanam
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- ¥1,600–9,000
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Book at
- facebook.com
Bus from Sandakan to Kota Kinabalu North Bus Terminal Inanam
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- ¥1,600–9,000
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Book at
- facebook.com
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