Kansai Airport to Osaka: how to get out of the airport

Getting from Kansai Airport into Osaka

What the airport itself publishes for each way in.

Nankai Limited Express Rapi:t

All seats reserved. The 1,670 yen is the fare 970 yen plus limited express ticket 700 yen, regular seat.

JR Kansai-Airport Express Haruka

1,300 yen is the HARUKA One-way Ticket, sold only to holders of a foreign passport.

JR Kansai-Airport Express Haruka

2,200 yen is the HARUKA One-way Ticket, sold only to holders of a foreign passport.

JR Kansai Airport Rapid Service

No limited express ticket needed.

Step by step from Kansai Airport

• Nambafrom 970 yen · 34 min at the quickest
• Osaka Station (Umeda)from 1,800 yen · 65 min at the quickest
• Kyotofrom 2,200 yen · 75 min at the quickest
• Shin-Osakafrom 1,800 yen · 50 min at the quickest
• Tennojifrom 1,300 yen · 30 min at the quickest
• Kobe (Sannomiya)from 1,880 yen · 30 min at the quickest
• Narafrom 1,800 yen · 100 min at the quickest
• Universal Studios Japanfrom 1,800 yen · 50 min at the quickest
• Itami Airportfrom 2,200 yen · 75 min at the quickest
• Kobe Airportfrom 1,880 yen · 30 min at the quickest
• Wakayamafrom 1,400 yen · 35 min at the quickest
• Uehommachi and Shinsaibashifrom 1,800 yen · 61 min at the quickest

Inside Kansai Airport, terminal by terminal

Which airlines use which terminal, where the station is, and the lounges, showers, beds, SIM counters, ATMs and baggage counters in each building.

• Kansai Airport Terminal 1KIX · 85 airlines
• Kansai Airport Terminal 2KIX · 3 airlines

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

Terminal 1 North 4F, and 1F

Counter fee

660 yen on top of the delivery charge.

How long it takes

Next day, or the day after for some areas.

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.

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

Terminal 2 is not walkable from Terminal 1. A free shuttle bus runs between them, so allow for it when you connect.

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.

Related items

• Itami Airport
• Kobe Airport