Asahikawa Airport to central Asahikawa: how to get out of the airport

Getting from Asahikawa Airport into central Asahikawa

What the airport itself publishes for each way in.

Airport bus (Asahikawa Denki Kido, route 77)

Timed to meet the flights.

Dohoku Bus

Two runs a day each way.

Furano Bus Lavender

A regular route bus that does not wait for flights. Pay when you get off; no reservation.

Ideyu-go (Asahikawa Denki Kido, route 66)

Via Higashikawa (12 minutes, 500 yen). A regular route bus that does not wait for flights.

Step by step from Asahikawa Airport

• Asahikawa Stationfrom 750 yen · 35 min at the quickest

Getting online

This is a smaller airport, so arrange an eSIM before you fly rather than counting on a counter in the arrivals hall.

eSIM

Bought before you leave home and installed over Wi-Fi, so you land connected. Needs a phone that takes an eSIM and is not carrier-locked.

Prepaid SIM

Sold at the arrivals counters and vending machines at the larger airports. You swap your physical SIM — keep the old one safe.

Pocket Wi-Fi

A rented router for several devices at once. Picked up and dropped back at the airport counter, or posted back.

Free Wi-Fi

Available in the terminal. It stops when you leave the building.

Inside Asahikawa Airport

Opening hours, lounges, cash, SIM rental and free Wi-Fi at Asahikawa Airport, as the airport lists them on its own pages.

Opening hours

07:30–20:30.

Staying overnight

The airport says you cannot stay inside after closing, and sleeping in a car in the airport grounds is not allowed either.

Lounge

LOUNGE TAISETSU, 3F (08:00–20:00) — Only for gold-card members of some Japanese card companies; a companion pays 1,100 yen.

Rest area

AKJ Square, 3F, 33 seats, charging station (21 seats) and a kids space (during terminal building opening hours, 07:30–20:30).

Currency exchange

Currency exchange machine, 1F (07:30–20:30).

ATMs

North Pacific Bank and Lawson Bank.

SIM and pocket Wi-Fi

Mobile Wi-Fi rental (unmanned WiFiBOX machine), 1F, domestic arrivals lobby next to Exit 3 (07:30–20:00).

Free Wi-Fi

Network .AsahikawaAirport_Free_Wi-Fi (Fiber Gate).

Leaving or sending a bag

Sagawa Express (baggage delivery and storage), 1F (08:45–19:45).

Prayer room

2F (during terminal building opening hours).

What happens between the plane and the exit

The same order at every international airport in Japan.

1. Quarantine — a health check as you come off the aircraft.
2. Immigration — fingerprints and a facial photograph, for everyone aged 16 and over, then the landing permission seal in your passport.
3. Baggage claim.
4. Animal and plant quarantine — before customs. Meat, fruit, vegetables, seeds and plants go to this counter first.
5. Customs — green channel with nothing to declare, red channel otherwise.

Register on Visit Japan Web before you fly and you get one 2D code that covers both immigration and customs. You need a phone or tablet to show it.

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