There are 8 ways to get from Sendai to Melbourne by train, plane, or bus
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Train, train to Narita International Airport, fly to Melbourne Airport
best- Take the train from Sendai to Ōmiyatrain
- Take the train from Nippori to Narita Airport Terminal 2·3train
- Fly from Narita International Airport (NRT) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane NRT - MEL
15h 47m$418–1,105Train to Tokyo International Airport, fly to Melbourne Airport
cheapest- Take the train from Sendai to Ōmiyatrain
- Fly from Tokyo International Airport (HND) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane HND - MEL
17h 51m$404–1,237Bus to Yamagata Airport, fly to Melbourne Airport
- Take the bus from Hirose dori Ichiban-cho to Yamagata Kencho-maebus
- Fly from Yamagata Airport (GAJ) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane GAJ - MEL
20h 16m$645–1,947Bus to Shonai Airport, fly to Melbourne Airport
- Take the bus from Sendai eki mae to S-mall Bus terminalbus
- Fly from Shonai Airport (SYO) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane SYO - MEL
23h 43m$1,051–3,361Fly Sendai Airport to Melbourne Airport
- Fly from Sendai Airport (SDJ) to Melbourne Airport (MEL)plane SDJ - MEL
18h 48m$533–1,734Train to Tokyo International Airport, fly to Avalon Airport, bus
- Take the train from Sendai to Ōmiyatrain
- Fly from Tokyo International Airport (HND) to Avalon Airport (AVV)plane HND - AVV
- Take the bus from Avalon Airport/Outside Terminal to Skybus Coach Terminalbus
19h 36m$494–2,037Train, train to Narita International Airport, fly to Avalon Airport, bus
- Take the train from Sendai to Ōmiyatrain
- Take the train from Nippori to Narita Airport Terminal 2·3train
- Fly from Narita International Airport (NRT) to Avalon Airport (AVV)plane NRT - AVV
- Take the bus from Avalon Airport/Outside Terminal to Skybus Coach Terminalbus
23h 21m$608–2,055Bus to Yamagata Airport, fly to Avalon Airport, bus
- Take the bus from Hirose dori Ichiban-cho to Yamagata Kencho-maebus
- Fly from Yamagata Airport (GAJ) to Avalon Airport (AVV)plane GAJ - AVV
- Take the bus from Avalon Airport/Outside Terminal to Skybus Coach Terminalbus
23h 21m$795–2,647
Narita International Airport (NRT) to Melbourne Airport (MEL) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Sendai to Melbourne is to train and fly which costs $410 - $1,100 and takes 15h 47m.
The fastest way to get from Sendai to Melbourne is to train and fly which takes 15h 47m and costs $410 - $1,100.
The distance between Sendai and Melbourne is 8580 km.
It takes approximately 15h 47m to get from Sendai to Melbourne, including transfers.
Melbourne is 2h ahead of Sendai. It is currently 1:05 PM in Sendai and 3:05 PM in Melbourne.
There are 5345+ hotels available in Melbourne.
What companies run services between Sendai, Japan and Melbourne, VIC, Australia?
Starlux Airlines, China Airlines, and five other airlines fly from Sendai Airport (SDJ) to Melbourne Airport (MEL) 3 times a day.
- Website
- qantas.com
Flights from Narita International Airport to Melbourne Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $500–1,800
Flights from Narita International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Brisbane
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $500–1,900
Flights from Narita International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Cairns
- Ave. Duration
- 14h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $330–1,200
Flights from Yamagata Airport to Melbourne Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $700–2,600
Flights from Yamagata Airport to Melbourne Airport via Osaka Itami, Narita International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $750–2,600
Flights from Tokyo International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $600–2,200
Flights from Tokyo International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Sydney, Canberra
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 45m
- When
- Wednesday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $600–2,200
Flights from Shonai Airport to Melbourne Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $1,200–4,300
Flights from Sendai Airport to Melbourne Airport via Taiwan Taoyuan
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $650–2,300
Flights from Sendai Airport to Melbourne Airport via New Chitose, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $800–2,800
Flights from Sendai Airport to Melbourne Airport via Osaka Kansai, Cairns
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $500–1,700
Flights from Sendai Airport to Melbourne Airport via Osaka Kansai, Brisbane
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $500–1,800
Flights from Tokyo International Airport to Avalon Airport via Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $600–6,000
Flights from Narita International Airport to Avalon Airport via Cairns, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $500–1,900
Flights from Narita International Airport to Avalon Airport via Melbourne Airport, Adelaide
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 45m
- When
- Wednesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- $850–3,000
Flights from Narita International Airport to Avalon Airport via Cairns, Gold Coast
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $500–1,900
Flights from Yamagata Airport to Avalon Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $700–7,500
Flights from Yamagata Airport to Avalon Airport via New Chitose, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 15m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $1,200–4,100
Flights from Yamagata Airport to Avalon Airport via Osaka Itami, Tokyo International Airport, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–4,000
Flights from Yamagata Airport to Avalon Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Osaka Kansai, Brisbane
- Ave. Duration
- 28h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,600
- Website
- jetstar.com
Flights from Narita International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Brisbane
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $340–1,200
Flights from Narita International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Cairns
- Ave. Duration
- 14h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $330–1,200
Flights from Sendai Airport to Melbourne Airport via Osaka Kansai, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $500–1,800
Flights from Sendai Airport to Melbourne Airport via Osaka Kansai, Cairns
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- $500–1,700
Flights from Sendai Airport to Melbourne Airport via Incheon, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $550–2,000
Flights from Sendai Airport to Melbourne Airport via Incheon, Brisbane
- Ave. Duration
- 24h 45m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- $550–1,900
Flights from Tokyo International Airport to Avalon Airport via Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 51m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $600–6,000
Flights from Narita International Airport to Avalon Airport via Brisbane
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $500–1,900
Flights from Narita International Airport to Avalon Airport via Ngurah Rai
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,300
Flights from Narita International Airport to Avalon Airport via Cairns, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $500–1,900
Flights from Narita International Airport to Avalon Airport via Cairns, Gold Coast
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $500–1,900
Flights from Yamagata Airport to Avalon Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $700–7,500
Flights from Yamagata Airport to Avalon Airport via Osaka Itami, Tokyo International Airport, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $1,000–3,100
Flights from Yamagata Airport to Avalon Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Osaka Kansai, Brisbane
- Ave. Duration
- 28h
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,600
- Website
- virginaustralia.com
Flights from Yamagata Airport to Melbourne Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $600–1,900
Flights from Tokyo International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $390–3,900
- Website
- jal.com
Flights from Narita International Airport to Melbourne Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $440–1,400
Flights from Yamagata Airport to Melbourne Airport via Osaka Itami, Narita International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $600–2,000
- Website
- philippineairlines.com
Flights from Tokyo International Airport to Melbourne Airport via Manila
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 35m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $430–1,400
- Website
- ana.co.jp
Flights from Shonai Airport to Melbourne Airport via Tokyo International Airport, Sydney
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 55m
- When
- Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $800–8,000
- Website
- china-airlines.com
Flights from Sendai Airport to Melbourne Airport via Taiwan Taoyuan
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $650–2,300
- Phone
- 050-2016-1603
- Website
- jrhokkaido.co.jp
Train from Sendai to Ōmiya
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- $65–100
- 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
- $65–95
- Reserved seat
- $80–100
- Green seat
- $100–140
- Phone
- 0570-081-160
- Website
- keisei.co.jp
Train from Nippori to Narita Airport Terminal 2·3
- Ave. Duration
- 36 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $22–24
- Website
- https://www.keisei.co.jp/keisei/tetudou/skyliner/us/index.php
- Phone
- 0570-081-160
- Website
- keisei.co.jp
Train from Nippori to Narita Airport Terminal 2·3
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 14m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $7–11
- Website
- https://www.keisei.co.jp/keisei/tetudou/skyliner/us/index.php
- Website
- yamakobus.co.jp
Bus from Hirose dori Ichiban-cho to Yamagata Kencho-mae
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- $7–10
- Schedules at
- yamakobus.jp
Bus from Sendai eki mae to S-mall Bus terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $19–25
- Schedules at
- yamakobus.co.jp
- Website
- shonaikotsu.jp
Bus from Sendai eki mae to S-mall Bus terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $14–35
- Schedules at
- shonaikotsu.jp
- Phone
- 1300 759 287
- info@skybus.com.au
- Website
- skybus.com.au
Bus from Avalon Airport/Outside Terminal to Skybus Coach Terminal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- $28
- Website
- https://www.skybus.com.au
- Schedules at
- https://www.skybus.com.au/timetables/
- Book at
- https://www.skybus.com.au/buy-tickets/
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