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

Getting from Kobe Airport into central Kobe

What the airport itself publishes for each way in.

Port Liner

The automated line runs from the terminal into central Kobe.

Kobe-Kansai Bay Shuttle

A high-speed boat across Osaka Bay. The pier is a 5 to 6 minute walk from the terminal, or take the free shuttle bus.

Step by step from Kobe Airport

• Sannomiyafrom 340 yen · 18 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

Terminal 1 2F, Terminal 2 1F

How long it takes

Next day, or the day after for some areas.

Worth knowing

No refrigerated service.

Coin lockers

What it costs to put a bag down for the day.

Coin lockers are in the Terminal 1 departure lobby on the second floor.

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 Kobe Airport

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

Domestic terminal

Opening hours

06:00–24:00, the same for Terminals 1 and 2.

Lounge

Lounge KOBE (domestic), Terminal 1, after security (06:15 until 10 minutes before the departure of the last flight) — 1,050 yen at the door, or free with some gold credit cards.

Rest area

Free space, Terminal 1 1F (06:00–24:00).

Nearby hotel

Kobe Portopia Hotel / Hotel Pearl City Kobe / Ariston Hotel Kobe, on Port Island, north of the airport; not in the terminal.

ATMs

SMBC and an ATM inside FamilyMart, Terminal 1 2F, before security. The airport says there is no ATM after security.

Free Wi-Fi

Networks #AirportFreeWiFi-Kobe(T1) and #AirportFreeWiFi-Kobe(T1)2.4G.

Sending a bag on

FamilyMart (Yamato TA-Q-BIN parcel service), Terminal 1 2F, before security (06:00–23:00).

Leaving or sending a bag

Yamato Transport Baggage Service Counter, Terminal 1 2F, before security (09:00–18:00).

International terminal

Lounge

Lounge KOBE (international), Terminal 2 (international departure area), after security (08:30–19:00) — 8,800 yen at the door, or free for guests of EVA Air, Korean Air, Starlux and Asiana; Priority Pass, Dragon Pass and credit cards do not get you in.

Rest area

Free space, Terminal 2 2F (06:00–24:00).

Currency exchange

Foreign currency exchange machine, Terminal 2 1F, departure/arrival lobby.

Free Wi-Fi

Networks #AirportFreeWiFi-Kobe(T2) and #AirportFreeWiFi-Kobe(T2)2.4G.

Leaving or sending a bag

Yamato Transport Baggage Service Counter, Terminal 2 1F, before security (10:00–17:00).

Prayer room

Terminal 2 1F.

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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