[Alas Babylon!]

No. As this map shows, six Japanese carriers left their home port in the Kuril Islands (1) and made their way across the stormy, cold North Pacific, under total radio silence and in infrequently travelled seas (due ot the many storms in the late Fall).

They launched their aircraft from a point only 200 miles North of Oahu (2). After worrying that the American carriers weren't there and the potential of American submarines, the Japanese carriers went bake to Japan (3).

[POWG]

In the Japanese movie The Admiral there is more background. Nagumo was under strict orders to return all of the carriers safely to Japan. Since the American carriers were not at Pearl Harbor he worried that they were in the area and could attack at any moment. He was following orders.