New Chitose Airport to Sapporo: how to get out of the airport

Getting from New Chitose Airport into Sapporo

What the airport itself publishes for each way in.

JR Rapid Airport

No change of train. The station is in the basement of the domestic terminal.

Sending your bags on, or leaving them here

Japan's courier network reaches this airport, so a case can go to your hotel without you.

Who runs it

Yamato Transport

Where the counter is

domestic terminal 1F and 2F, international terminal 3F

How long it takes

Next day, or the day after for some areas.

Coin lockers

What it costs to put a bag down for the day.

Three days maximum. There is also a refrigerated locker, and a staffed baggage storage counter for longer stays.

Getting online

Rental counters are in the arrivals hall here, so you can sort a connection after you clear customs.

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.

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.

Connecting onto a domestic flight

You clear immigration and customs here, at the first airport you land in.

How it works here

International arrivals walk through to the domestic terminal along a connecting passage. Domestic check-in is on the second floor.

Your bags

On one ticket with one airline they are normally checked through. On separate tickets, or across a low-cost carrier, you collect them and check in again.

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