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

Getting from Fukuoka Airport into central Fukuoka

What the airport itself publishes for each way in.

Fukuoka City Subway

The station is under the domestic terminal. From the international terminal, take the free shuttle bus first.

Nishitetsu Airport Express

Non-stop from the international terminal, stand 8. 480 yen with an IC card.

Nishitetsu Bus

From the international terminal, stands 6 and 7, every 15 minutes on weekdays. No cash: pay by card or IC card, which takes 20 yen off.

A free connecting bus runs between the domestic and international terminals and takes about 10 minutes.

Step by step from Fukuoka Airport

• Hakata Stationfrom 260 yen · 5 min at the quickest
• Tenjinfrom 260 yen · 11 min at the quickest

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

international terminal 1F, domestic terminal 1F

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.

Coin lockers that take IC cards are spread through the terminal; the floor maps mark them.

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.

Inside Fukuoka Airport

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

International terminal

Opening hours

05:00–22:40 on 1F and 05:00–21:40 on 2F to 4F; the times can change with the flight schedule and delays.

Between the terminals

Free shuttle bus, about 10 minutes, every 5–6 minutes in the daytime; first bus 06:18 and last bus 23:21 from the international terminal stop.

Lounge

Lounge TIME International, 3F, near Gate 56 in the boarding waiting room, after security (from the start of immigration to 21:00) — 1,100 yen at the door, or free with some gold credit cards.

Lounge

Korean Air Lounge, 3F, in front of Gate 56, after security (from two hours before departure to the scheduled departure time) — Airline lounge: the airline decides who can enter.

Lounge

Lounge Fukuoka, 4F — Airline lounge shared by about 25 airlines; Priority Pass members can also use it when there is room.

Currency exchange

Travelex, arrivals lobby (31 currencies), 1F; Trip.com Foreign Exchange, 1F (07:00–21:00); Fukuoka Bank (17 currencies), 1F (07:30–21:00); Fukuoka Bank (17 currencies, with a yen exchange machine), 3F (07:45–19:30); SBJ Bank (13 currencies), 3F (07:30–19:00); Travelex, departures north (31 currencies), 3F, after security (07:00–20:30); Travelex, departures south (31 currencies), 3F, after security (07:00–20:30).

ATMs

Seven Bank.

SIM and pocket Wi-Fi

Global WiFi (counter), 1F (07:00–21:30); Imoto's WiFi (counter), 1F (07:30–21:30); Telecom Square (counter), 1F (07:00–21:00); Sakura Mobile (counter), 1F (07:00–21:00); JOURNEY SIM and eSIM, 1F (05:00–22:40); Global Wi-Fi SIM vending machine, 1F (05:00–22:40); GLOBAL SIM For JAPAN vending machine, 1F (05:00–22:40); WiFiBOX (self-service rental), 1F (05:00–21:40).

Free Wi-Fi

Networks AirportFreeWiFi-2.4G and AirportFreeWiFi-5.0G, in both terminals.

Sending a bag on

Yamato Transport, 1F (07:30–20:00); CARGO PASS (same-day delivery to hotels in central Fukuoka), 1F (08:00–19:30); DELIBAG, 1F (08:00–18:00).

Leaving or sending a bag

Sagawa Express (also keeps bags too big for the lockers), 1F (07:30–21:40).

Prayer room

3F; 4F.

Domestic terminal

Opening hours

05:30–22:30; the times can change with the flight schedule and delays.

Between the terminals

Free shuttle bus, about 10 minutes, every 5–6 minutes in the daytime; first bus 06:00 and last bus 23:19 from the domestic terminal stop.

Lounge

Lounge TIME / North, 1F, before security (06:00–20:30) — 1,100 yen at the door, or free with some gold credit cards.

Lounge

Lounge TIME / South, 2F, inside the departure lounge, after security (06:00–21:00) — 1,100 yen at the door, or free with some gold credit cards.

Lounge

JAL Lounge, 2F, inside the departure lounge (06:00 until the last flight departs) — Airline lounge: the airline decides who can enter.

Lounge

ANA Lounge, 2F, inside the departure lounge (06:00 until the last flight departs) — Airline lounge: the airline decides who can enter.

ATMs

Seven Bank, AEON Bank, Japan Post Bank, Fukuoka Bank and Nishi-Nippon City Bank, on B1F, 1F and 2F.

Sending a bag on

Yamato Transport, 1F north (07:00–21:00); Japan Post, 1F (07:00–21:00).

Leaving or sending a bag

CARGO PASS (storage, and same-day delivery to hotels), B1F (08:30–20:30).

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

Allow for the shuttle bus between terminals — about 10 minutes plus waiting — if you land internationally and fly on within Japan.

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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