Kochi Ryoma Airport to central Kochi: how to get out of the airport

Getting from Kochi Ryoma Airport into central Kochi

What the airport itself publishes for each way in.

Airport bus

By the Kochi Tobu Expressway. 900 yen to anywhere in the centre, from Kochi Station to Saenbacho. Pay when you get off.

Step by step from Kochi Ryoma Airport

• Kochi Stationfrom 900 yen · 25 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 Kochi Ryoma Airport

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

Opening hours

Opens 1 hour before the first departure and closes after the last flight; the airport posts each month's hours (06:10–20:50 in October 2026).

Lounge

Card Lounge Blue Sky, 2F departure lobby, before security (from 1 hour before the first departure until the last departure, reception ends 20 minutes before the last departure) — 1,100 yen for 2 hours at the door, or free with some gold credit cards.

ATMs

Bank of Kochi, Shikoku Bank, Kochi Shinkin Bank and AEON Bank.

Free Wi-Fi

Network kochiairport-free-5; 10 minutes free without registering, longer once you register with an email address or a social media account.

Sending a bag on

Parcels at the shop Big Sun, 2F.

How you get to Japan if you are flying here

Kochi Ryoma Airport has no scheduled international flights.

Fly into Kansai or Haneda and connect onto a domestic flight, or cross from Okayama by train over the bridge into Shikoku.

• Kansai AirportThe international airport for this region
• What you can bring to Japan147 items, checked twice
• Baggage rules by airline17 airlines

Immigration and customs happen at the first airport you land in, not here.

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