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

Getting from Hiroshima Airport into central Hiroshima

What the airport itself publishes for each way in.

Limousine bus

IC cards accepted, but not PiTaPa.

Limousine bus

The bus center is near the Peace Memorial Park and the prefectural office.

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

How long it takes

Next day, or the day after for some areas.

Worth knowing

You can also send a bag ahead to the airport with the Airport TA-Q-BIN service.

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 Hiroshima Airport

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

Opening hours

06:00–22:30.

Lounge

YAMANAMI VILLA (Hiroshima Airport Lounge), 3F domestic boarding area, after security (06:45–20:40, may change with flight operations) — 1,760 yen at the door, or free with some gold credit cards; most cards issued abroad do not count.

Lounge

JAL Lounge / ANA Lounge, 2F domestic departure lobby — Airline lounge: the airline decides who can enter.

Lounge

International Gate Lounge Maple, 2F international departure waiting area, after security — Closed from 17 August 2026 to 28 February 2027 for the terminal expansion (the dates can change); passengers of the airlines that use it get a shopping voucher at check-in instead.

Nearby hotel

Hiroshima Airport Hotel, about 5 minutes on foot from the terminal, with a free shuttle.

Currency exchange

Travelex, 1F international arrival lobby (08:00–16:30); Hiroshima Bank exchange machine (in the ATM corner), 1F international arrival lobby (08:00–21:00, every day).

ATMs

One shared machine for Hiroshima Bank, Momiji Bank and four other local banks, 1F international arrival lobby (08:00–21:00).

Free Wi-Fi

Network Hiroshima Free Wi-Fi, 1F to 3F; one hour per session, as many sessions as you like.

Sending a bag on

Yamato Transport (Airport TA-Q-BIN), 1F domestic arrival lobby (08:30–18:30); Hands-Free Travel Service (same-day delivery to hotels in Hiroshima), 1F domestic arrival lobby (reception 08:30–10:30, luggage arrives at the hotel 14:30–17:00).

Prayer room

1F international arrival lobby.

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.

Related items

• Izumo Airport
• Okayama Airport
• Yonago Kitaro Airport