There are 8 ways to get from Cardiff to Kumamoto by train or plane
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Train to London Heathrow Airport, fly to Aso Kumamoto Airport
best- Take the train from Cardiff Central to London Paddingtontrain
- Fly from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) to Aso Kumamoto Airport (KMJ)plane LHR - KMJ
20h 16m¥80,933–283,528Fly Cardiff Airport to Aso Kumamoto Airport
cheapest- Fly from Cardiff Airport (CWL) to Aso Kumamoto Airport (KMJ)plane CWL - KMJ
36h 28m¥61,515–373,110Fly Cardiff Airport to Fukuoka Airport, train
- Fly from Cardiff Airport (CWL) to Fukuoka Airport (FUK)plane CWL - FUK
- Take the train from Hakata to Kumamototrain
23h 29m¥90,155–328,060Train, train to London Gatwick Airport, fly to Fukuoka Airport
- Take the train from Cardiff Central to Readingtrain
- Take the train from Reading to Gatwick Airporttrain
- Fly from London Gatwick Airport (LGW) to Fukuoka Airport (FUK)plane LGW - FUK
- Take the train from Hakata to Kumamototrain
21h 40m¥89,009–294,763Train to London Heathrow Airport, fly to Fukuoka Airport, train
- Take the train from Cardiff Central to London Paddingtontrain
- Fly from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) to Fukuoka Airport (FUK)plane LHR - FUK
- Take the train from Hakata to Kumamototrain
20h 47m¥89,573–248,478Train to London Heathrow Airport, fly to Kagoshima Airport, train
- Take the train from Cardiff Central to London Paddingtontrain
- Fly from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) to Kagoshima Airport (KOJ)plane LHR - KOJ
- Take the train from Kagoshima-Chuo to Kumamototrain
22h 44m¥76,303–271,028Train to Bristol Airport, fly to Aso Kumamoto Airport
- Take the train from Cardiff Central to Bristol Temple Meadstrain
- Fly from Bristol Airport (BRS) to Aso Kumamoto Airport (KMJ)plane BRS - KMJ
22h 18m¥69,259–268,563Train to London Heathrow Airport, fly to Kitakyushu Airport, train
- Take the train from Cardiff Central to London Paddingtontrain
- Fly from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) to Kitakyushu Airport (KKJ)plane LHR - KKJ
- Take the train from Kokura to Kumamototrain
23h 19m¥86,973–311,978
London Heathrow Airport (LHR) to Aso Kumamoto Airport (KMJ) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Cardiff to Kumamoto is to train and fly which costs ¥85000 - ¥300000 and takes 21h 40m.
The fastest way to get from Cardiff to Kumamoto is to train and fly which takes 20h 16m and costs ¥80000 - ¥290000.
The distance between Cardiff and Kumamoto is 9779 km.
It takes approximately 20h 16m to get from Cardiff to Kumamoto, including transfers.
Kumamoto is 8h ahead of Cardiff. It is currently 6:24 PM in Cardiff and 2:24 AM in Kumamoto.
There are 181+ hotels available in Kumamoto.
What companies run services between Cardiff, Wales and Kumamoto, Japan?
KLM, T'way Air, and three other airlines fly from Cardiff Airport (CWL) to Aso Kumamoto Airport (KMJ) 3 times a day.
- Website
- jal.com
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Aso Kumamoto Airport via Tokyo Haneda
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥60,000–350,000
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Fukuoka Airport via Tokyo Haneda
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥55,000–330,000
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Fukuoka Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥55,000–250,000
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Kagoshima Airport via Tokyo Haneda
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥55,000–320,000
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Kagoshima Airport via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥55,000–230,000
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Kitakyushu Airport via Tokyo Haneda
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥65,000–370,000
- Website
- koreanair.com
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Aso Kumamoto Airport via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥65,000–280,000
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Fukuoka Airport via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥60,000–260,000
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Kagoshima Airport via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥55,000–230,000
Flights from Bristol Airport to Aso Kumamoto Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle, Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 20m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥60,000–260,000
Flights from Bristol Airport to Aso Kumamoto Airport via Prague, Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 5m
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- ¥60,000–260,000
Flights from Bristol Airport to Aso Kumamoto Airport via Vienna, Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- ¥65,000–270,000
Flights from Bristol Airport to Aso Kumamoto Airport via Budapest, Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥65,000–270,000
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Kitakyushu Airport via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥65,000–270,000
- Website
- ana.co.jp
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Aso Kumamoto Airport via Tokyo Haneda
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥65,000–950,000
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Fukuoka Airport via Tokyo Haneda
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥60,000–900,000
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Kagoshima Airport via Tokyo Haneda
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥60,000–850,000
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Kitakyushu Airport via Tokyo Haneda
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥70,000–1,000,000
- Website
- airchina.com
Flights from Cardiff Airport to Fukuoka Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥85,000–330,000
Flights from London Gatwick Airport to Fukuoka Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 40m
- When
- Tuesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥45,000–220,000
Flights from London Gatwick Airport to Fukuoka Airport via Beijing Capital, Dalian
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- ¥44,000–210,000
- Website
- en.ceair.com
Flights from London Gatwick Airport to Fukuoka Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥60,000–230,000
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Fukuoka Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥55,000–250,000
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Cardiff Airport to Fukuoka Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥80,000–340,000
Flights from Cardiff Airport to Fukuoka Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Taiwan Taoyuan
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥90,000–350,000
- Website
- ch.com
Flights from London Gatwick Airport to Fukuoka Airport via Shanghai Pudong
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥60,000–230,000
- Website
- twayair.com
Flights from Cardiff Airport to Aso Kumamoto Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥85,000–330,000
Flights from Cardiff Airport to Aso Kumamoto Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Beijing Daxing, Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 32h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥60,000–370,000
- Website
- flypeach.com
Flights from Cardiff Airport to Fukuoka Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Osaka Kansai
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- ¥85,000–320,000
- Website
- starlux-airlines.com
Flights from Cardiff Airport to Aso Kumamoto Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol, Taiwan Taoyuan
- Ave. Duration
- 33h 30m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- ¥100,000–440,000
- Website
- jinair.com
Flights from London Heathrow Airport to Kitakyushu Airport via Incheon
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- ¥65,000–270,000
- Phone
- +44 3457 000 125
- gwr.feedback@gwr.com
- Website
- gwr.com
Train from Cardiff Central to London Paddington
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 4m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- ¥13,000–26,000
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
Train from Cardiff Central to Reading
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 24m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- ¥10,000–19,000
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
Train from Reading to Gatwick Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 31m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- ¥4,900–9,500
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
Train from Cardiff Central to Bristol Temple Meads
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- ¥3,500–7,000
- Website
- https://www.gwr.com/
- Phone
- 050-2016-1603
- Website
- jrhokkaido.co.jp
Train from Hakata to Kumamoto
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- ¥3,600–6,000
- 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
- ¥3,600–4,900
- Reserved seat
- ¥4,500–6,000
- Green seat
- ¥5,500–7,500
Train from Kagoshima-Chuo to Kumamoto
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Every 10 minutes
- Estimated price
- ¥4,900–7,500
- 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
- ¥4,900–6,500
- Reserved seat
- ¥5,500–7,500
- Green seat
- ¥7,000–9,500
Train from Kokura to Kumamoto
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- ¥4,800–7,000
- 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
- ¥4,800–6,500
- Reserved seat
- ¥5,500–7,000
- Green seat
- ¥7,000–9,500
Train from Cardiff Central to Bristol Temple Meads
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- ¥4,300–6,500
- Website
- https://www.crosscountrytrains.co.uk/
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