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

Getting from Kumamoto Airport into central Kumamoto

What the airport itself publishes for each way in.

Step by step from Kumamoto Airport

• Kumamotofrom 1,400 yen · 45 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

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.

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 Kumamoto Airport

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

Opening hours

06:30–21:30; the closing time can change with the flight schedule.

Staying overnight

The airport says passengers who arrive before 06:30 for an early flight are not let in, for security reasons.

Lounge

Lounge ASO, 3F, boarding waiting area, after security (06:30 until the last flight departs) — Free for airline lounge guests and some gold card members.

Lounge

Lounge G, Sorayoka Visitor Center (09:00–19:00) — A themed rest space with free massage chairs, for departing and arriving passengers.

Currency exchange

Foreign exchange machine (passport required), 1F Arrival Lobby (08:00–21:00).

ATMs

Higo Bank, Kumamoto Bank and Seven Bank, 1F lobby.

SIM and pocket Wi-Fi

Town WiFi rental locker, 1F.

Free Wi-Fi

KUMAMOTO Free Wi-Fi.

Sending a bag on

Yamato Transport counter, 1F Arrival Lobby (08:00–18:00).

Leaving or sending a bag

Yamato Transport counter inside the boarding lounge, 3F, inside the boarding lounge (10:00–19:00).

Prayer room

1F Arrival Lobby (06:30–21:30).

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.

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