The aircraft chartered by the US government left Tokyo's Haneda Airport in the early hours of Monday.
There were some 400 Americans on board the ship, which has been held since 3 February due to infections from the new coronavirus which has hit China.
The Diamond Princess has been quarantined in Japan's port of Yokohama with some 3,700 people on board.
The ship was held after a man who disembarked in Hong Kong was found to have the virus.
It has the largest cluster of coronavirus cases outside China. The Japanese authorities on Sunday said the number of new cases on board the ship had risen by 70 to 355.
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