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

Getting from Kagoshima Airport into central Kagoshima

What the airport itself publishes for each way in.

Nangoku Kotsu and Kagoshima Kotsu

Every 10 minutes.

Nangoku Kotsu and Kagoshima Kotsu

The same bus, 8 minutes after Kagoshima Chuo Station. Drop-off only.

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

1F

How long it takes

Next day, or the day after for some areas.

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 Kagoshima Airport

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

Domestic terminal

Opening hours

From 06:00 until 30 minutes after the last arrival.

Lounge

Nanohana Sky Lounge, 2F (07:00–20:00, 365 days) — 1,100 yen at the door, or free with some gold credit cards; most cards issued abroad do not count.

Lounge

JAL Sakura Lounge, 2F, gate area (from 6:30 until the last flight of the day) — Airline lounge: the airline decides who can enter.

Lounge

ANA Lounge, 2F, gate area (from 6:15 until the last flight of the day) — Airline lounge: the airline decides who can enter.

Bath

Oyattosa natural hot spring foot baths (free for all visitors), 1F (09:00–19:30).

ATMs

Kagoshima Bank airport branch and Seven Bank.

SIM and pocket Wi-Fi

Multifunctional Service Counter: same-day Wi-Fi router rental, 1F (08:00–18:00, 365 days).

Free Wi-Fi

Free Wi-Fi throughout the domestic and international terminals.

Leaving a bag

Temporary baggage storage at the Multifunctional Service Counter, 1F (08:00–18:00).

Sending a bag on

Yamato Transport, 1F (08:00–20:00, 365 days).

International terminal

Opening hours

Open only around international flights: from 3 hours before the first departure to 1 hour after the last, and from 2 hours before each arrival to 1 hour after it.

Staying overnight

The international building opens and closes around the flights, so it is closed when there are none.

Currency exchange

Currency exchange machine (Smart Exchange; foreign currency to yen only), 1F (only while the international building is open).

SIM and pocket Wi-Fi

Global WiFi Smart Pickup machine, 1F (only while the international building is open); SIM cards (2GB, 20GB, unlimited), 1F (only while the international building is open).

Free Wi-Fi

Free public wireless LAN.

Prayer room

3F.

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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