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

Getting from Aomori Airport into central Aomori

What the airport itself publishes for each way in.

Step by step from Aomori Airport

• Aomori Stationfrom 980 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 Aomori Airport

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

Opening hours

06:00–22:00; the airport says the hours can change with flight operations.

Lounge

Airport Lounge, 2F (from 1 hour before the day's first scheduled departure until 15 minutes before the last scheduled departure) — 1,100 yen at the door, or free with some gold credit cards; Priority Pass accepted.

ATMs

Aomori Michinoku Bank.

Free Wi-Fi

Network FreeWiFi-AOMORI (Aomori Airport FREE Wi-Fi).

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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