There are 7 ways to get from Basel to Kanazawa by train, plane, or taxi
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Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Komatsu Airport
best- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Komatsu Airport (KMQ)plane ZRH - KMQ
27h 20m¥77,017–273,114Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Chūbu Centrair International Airport, train
cheapest- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Chūbu Centrair International Airport (NGO)plane ZRH - NGO
- Take the train from Nagoya Station to Maibaratrain
- Take the train from Maibara to Tsurugatrain
- Take the train from Tsuruga to Kanazawatrain
22h 23m¥64,567–184,614Fly Basel to Toyama Airport, train
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Toyama Airport (TOY)plane BSL - TOY
- Take the train from Toyama to Kanazawatrain
21h 34m¥97,867–296,718Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Toyama Airport, train
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Toyama Airport (TOY)plane ZRH - TOY
- Take the train from Toyama to Kanazawatrain
23h 15m¥91,817–275,114Fly Basel to Noto Airport, taxi, train
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Noto Airport (NTQ)plane BSL - NTQ
- Take the taxi from Yanagida Shokubutsu Koen to Nanaotaxi
- Take the train from Nanao to Kanazawatrain
26h 31m¥114,617–377,318Train to Frankfurt, fly to Tokyo International Airport, train
- Take the train from Basel Bad Bf to Frankfurttrain
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Tokyo International Airport (HND)plane FRA - HND
- Take the train from Tōkyō Station to Kanazawatrain
21h 38m¥80,721–192,315Fly Basel to Komatsu Airport
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Komatsu Airport (KMQ)plane BSL - KMQ
20h 59m¥78,067–234,718
Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Komatsu Airport (KMQ) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Basel to Kanazawa is to train and fly which costs ¥60000 - ¥190000 and takes 22h 23m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Kanazawa is to fly which takes 20h 59m and costs ¥75000 - ¥240000.
The distance between Basel and Kanazawa is 9480 km.
It takes approximately 27h 20m to get from Basel to Kanazawa, including transfers.
Kanazawa is 8h ahead of Basel. It is currently 1:23 AM in Basel and 9:23 AM in Kanazawa.
There are 547+ hotels available in Kanazawa.
What companies run services between Basel, Switzerland and Kanazawa, Ishikawa-ken, Japan?
Air Dolomiti and China Eastern Airlines fly from Basel (BSL) to Komatsu Airport (KMQ) twice a week.
- Website
- ana.co.jp
Flights from Basel to Toyama Airport via Frankfurt, Tokyo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 42m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥110,000–1,000,000
Flights from Basel to Toyama Airport via Munich, Tokyo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥110,000–440,000
Flights from Zurich Airport to Toyama Airport via Munich, Tokyo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥100,000–850,000
Flights from Basel to Noto Airport via Frankfurt, Tokyo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 47m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥95,000–360,000
Flights from Basel to Noto Airport via London Heathrow, Tokyo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥85,000–340,000
Flights from Basel to Noto Airport via Istanbul, Tokyo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 20m
- When
- Monday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥100,000–900,000
Flights from Basel to Noto Airport via Munich, Tokyo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥90,000–800,000
Flights from Basel to Noto Airport via Vienna, Tokyo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 29h 30m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- ¥90,000–800,000
Flights from Zurich Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Tokyo Narita
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥55,000–190,000
Flights from Frankfurt to Tokyo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥60,000–550,000
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Basel to Toyama Airport via Munich, Tokyo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥110,000–440,000
Flights from Zurich Airport to Toyama Airport via Munich, Tokyo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 55m
- When
- Monday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥100,000–390,000
Flights from Frankfurt to Tokyo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥60,000–550,000
- Website
- en.ceair.com
Flights from Basel to Toyama Airport via Frankfurt, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 20m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- ¥95,000–290,000
Flights from Basel to Toyama Airport via Budapest, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 55m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- ¥100,000–410,000
Flights from Zurich Airport to Toyama Airport via Milan Malpensa, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 10m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- ¥85,000–260,000
Flights from Frankfurt to Tokyo International Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥65,000–160,000
Flights from Basel to Komatsu Airport via Frankfurt, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 18h
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥75,000–230,000
- Website
- koreanair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Komatsu Airport via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 31h 10m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- ¥70,000–260,000
Flights from Zurich Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥50,000–190,000
Flights from Frankfurt to Tokyo International Airport via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 20m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥60,000–210,000
- Website
- airchina.com
Flights from Basel to Toyama Airport via Frankfurt, Tokyo International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥110,000–1,000,000
Flights from Frankfurt to Tokyo International Airport via Beijing Capital
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 2m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥60,000–130,000
- Website
- cathaypacific.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Komatsu Airport via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 5m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥95,000–290,000
Flights from Zurich Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥70,000–210,000
- Website
- ceair.com
Flights from Basel to Toyama Airport via Budapest, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 55m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- ¥100,000–410,000
- Website
- finnair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 30m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥50,000–160,000
- Website
- jejuair.net
Flights from Zurich Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥55,000–180,000
- Website
- ch.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 5m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥60,000–200,000
- Website
- hkexpress.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Chūbu Centrair International Airport via Hong Kong
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥70,000–210,000
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- ¥3,900–7,500
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- 050-2016-1603
- Website
- jrhokkaido.co.jp
Train from Toyama to Kanazawa
- Ave. Duration
- 25 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- ¥2,800–4,500
- Schedules at
- https://japantravel.navitime.com/en/area/jp/route/
- Website
- https://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/global/
- 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/
- Unreserved seat
- ¥2,800–3,800
- Reserved seat
- ¥3,600–4,500
- Green seat
- ¥4,300–6,000
Train from Nagoya Station to Maibara
- Ave. Duration
- 29 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- ¥3,000–4,700
- Schedules at
- https://japantravel.navitime.com/en/area/jp/route/
- Website
- https://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/global/
- 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/
- Unreserved seat
- ¥3,000–4,100
- Reserved seat
- ¥3,800–4,700
- Green seat
- ¥4,600–6,000
Train from Tsuruga to Kanazawa
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- ¥4,500–7,000
- Schedules at
- https://japantravel.navitime.com/en/area/jp/route/
- Website
- https://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/global/
- 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/
- Unreserved seat
- ¥4,500–6,500
- Reserved seat
- ¥5,500–7,000
- Green seat
- ¥6,500–9,000
Train from Tōkyō Station to Kanazawa
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 4m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- ¥10,000–15,000
- Schedules at
- https://japantravel.navitime.com/en/area/jp/route/
- Website
- https://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/global/
- 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/
- Unreserved seat
- ¥10,000–15,000
- Reserved seat
- ¥12,000–15,000
- Green seat
- ¥15,000–21,000
- Phone
- 076-431-3409
- Website
- ainokaze.co.jp
Train from Toyama to Kanazawa
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- ¥1,100–1,300
- Website
- http://ainokaze.co.jp/
- Phone
- 0570-00-2486
- Website
- jr-odekake.net
Train from Nanao to Kanazawa
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 26m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Schedules at
- westjr.co.jp
Train from Maibara to Tsuruga
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Schedules at
- westjr.co.jp
- Phone
- (050) 2016-1603
- Website
- jrhokkaido.co.jp
Train from Nanao to Kanazawa
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- ¥2,300–3,500
- Schedules at
- https://japantravel.navitime.com/en/area/jp/route/
- Website
- https://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/global/
- 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/
- Unreserved Seat
- ¥3,000–3,500
- Reserved Seat
- ¥2,300–3,300
- Green Seat
- ¥3,100–4,200
Train from Maibara to Tsuruga
- Ave. Duration
- 35 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- ¥1,900–3,000
- Schedules at
- https://japantravel.navitime.com/en/area/jp/route/
- Website
- https://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/global/
- 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/
- Unreserved Seat
- ¥2,600–3,000
- Reserved Seat
- ¥1,900–2,700
- Green Seat
- ¥2,400–3,200
- Phone
- 050-3772-3910
- Website
- jr-central.co.jp
Train from Nagoya Station to Maibara
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Schedules at
- global.jr-central.co.jp
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Basel Bad Bf to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 43m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- ¥5,000–17,000
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Estimated price
- ¥26,000–32,000
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