There are 7 ways to get from Osaka to Edinburgh by train, plane, or bus
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train to Kansai International Airport, fly to Edinburgh Airport
best- Take the train from Shin-Ōsaka Station to Kansai Airporttrain
- Fly from Kansai International Airport (KIX) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane KIX - EDI
20h 28m£505–816Fly Osaka International Airport to Edinburgh Airport
cheapest- Fly from Osaka International Airport (ITM) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane ITM - EDI
22h 56m£202–513Train to Chūbu Centrair International Airport, fly to Edinburgh Airport
- Take the train from Shin Osaka to Nagoyatrain
- Fly from Chūbu Centrair International Airport (NGO) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane NGO - EDI
24h 21mTrain to Kansai International Airport, fly to Glasgow Airport, train
- Take the train from Shin-Ōsaka Station to Kansai Airporttrain
- Fly from Kansai International Airport (KIX) to Glasgow Airport (GLA)plane KIX - GLA
- Take the train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverleytrain
22h 39m£263–943Train, bus to Tokushima Airport, fly to Edinburgh Airport
- Take the train from Ōsaka to Maikotrain
- Take the bus from Kousoku Maiko to Kousoku Narutobus
- Fly from Tokushima Airport (TKS) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane TKS - EDI
24h 42m£319–767Fly Kobe to Edinburgh Airport
- Fly from Kobe (UKB) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane UKB - EDI
23h 20m£244–616Train to Tokyo International Airport, fly to Edinburgh Airport
- Take the train from Shin Osaka to Shin Yokohamatrain
- Fly from Tokyo International Airport (HND) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI)plane HND - EDI
24h 12m
Kansai International Airport (KIX) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Osaka to Edinburgh is to fly which costs £200 - £550 and takes 22h 56m.
The fastest way to get from Osaka to Edinburgh is to train and fly which takes 20h 28m and costs £500 - £850.
The distance between Osaka and Edinburgh is 5810 miles.
It takes approximately 20h 28m to get from Osaka to Edinburgh, including transfers.
Edinburgh is 9h behind Osaka. It is currently 3:10 PM in Osaka and 6:10 AM in Edinburgh.
There are 2812+ hotels available in Edinburgh.
What companies run services between Osaka, Japan and Edinburgh, Scotland?
All Nippon Airways, Scandinavian Airlines, and two other airlines fly from Osaka International Airport (ITM) to Edinburgh Airport (EDI) 3 times a day.
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Kansai International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £240–650
Flights from Osaka International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 26h 2m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £230–950
Flights from Chūbu Centrair International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 27h
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £210–550
Flights from Tokushima Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 5m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £320–850
Flights from Kobe to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £280–2,300
Flights from Kobe to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £280–750
Flights from Tokyo International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 36m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £230–950
Flights from Tokyo International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 30m
- When
- Tuesday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- £220–950
- Website
- jal.com
Flights from Kansai International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £240–650
Flights from Osaka International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 18m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £230–950
Flights from Osaka International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo Narita, Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 45m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- £230–650
Flights from Chūbu Centrair International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 27h
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £210–550
Flights from Tokushima Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 43m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £320–1,300
Flights from Kobe to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £280–750
Flights from Kobe to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £450–1,200
Flights from Tokyo International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £380–950
Flights from Tokyo International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 30m
- When
- Tuesday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- £220–950
- Website
- flysas.com
Flights from Kansai International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 19h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £260–950
Flights from Kansai International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 17m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £240–900
Flights from Osaka International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £190–500
Flights from Chūbu Centrair International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 20h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £180–470
Flights from Tokushima Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £260–700
Flights from Kobe to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £230–600
Flights from Tokyo International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Copenhagen
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 30m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £190–490
Flights from Tokyo International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £240–900
- Website
- finnair.com
Flights from Kansai International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- £240–650
Flights from Osaka International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £230–600
Flights from Chūbu Centrair International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 27h
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £210–550
Flights from Tokushima Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 52m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £320–850
Flights from Kobe to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- £280–750
Flights from Tokyo International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Helsinki
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 30m
- When
- Tuesday to Thursday
- Estimated price
- £220–950
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Kansai International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 19h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £260–950
Flights from Kansai International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 10m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £250–900
Flights from Tokyo International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £240–900
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Kansai International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 17m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £240–900
Flights from Kansai International Airport to Glasgow Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 22m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- £250–900
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Chūbu Centrair International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- £240–900
Flights from Tokyo International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- £260–2,000
- Website
- norwegian.com
Flights from Tokushima Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 50m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £410–2,500
Flights from Kobe to Edinburgh Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Stockholm
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 50m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- £350–2,200
- Website
- hainanairlines.com
Flights from Kansai International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Beijing Capital
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 15m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- £230–750
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Kansai International Airport to Edinburgh Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- £260–950
- Phone
- 0570-00-2486
- Website
- jr-odekake.net
Train from Shin-Ōsaka Station to Kansai Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £5–6
- Schedules at
- westjr.co.jp
Train from Shin-Ōsaka Station to Kansai Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £5–6
- Schedules at
- westjr.co.jp
Train from Ōsaka to Maiko
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Every 10 minutes
- Estimated price
- £3–5
- Schedules at
- JR WEST (West Japan Railway Company)
- Phone
- 050-3772-3910
- Website
- JR CENTRAL
Train from Shin Osaka to Nagoya
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 9m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Website
- JR CENTRAL
- Schedules at
- JR West Timetable & Route Finder
Train from Shin Osaka to Shin Yokohama
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 36m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Website
- JR CENTRAL
- Schedules at
- JR West Timetable & Route Finder
- Phone
- +44 (0)344 811 0141
- Website
- ScotRail
Train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- £18–30
- Website
- ScotRail
- Phone
- 0345 528 0409
- customerexperience@lumo.co.uk
- Website
- Lumo
Train from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- £7–14
- Website
- Lumo
- Phone
- 088-664-6030
- Website
- honshi-bus.co.jp
Bus from Kousoku Maiko to Kousoku Naruto
- Ave. Duration
- 57 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- £17
- Schedules at
- honshi-bus.co.jp
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