Tokushima Awaodori Airport to central Tokushima: how to get out of the airport

Getting from Tokushima Awaodori Airport into central Tokushima

What the airport itself publishes for each way in.

Tokushima Bus airport limousine

Runs to meet the flights; no reservation, and it leaves when full. Stops at Tokushima University and Tokushima Chuo Park on the way. Buy a ticket at the 1F machine or pay on the bus by cash, IC card or contactless credit card.

Tokushima Bus route bus

From stop 2; the same fare to the Otsuka Museum of Art.

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

The airport's hands-free sightseeing service

Where the counter is

1F information desk, 08:30–11:45

How long it takes

The same day, between 18:00 and 21:00, at accommodation in Tokushima Prefecture.

Worth knowing

It costs 500 yen a bag, up to 160cm (three sides added) and 25kg. Yamato Transport parcels are handled at the 1F Seven-Eleven.

Coin lockers

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

On 1F, cash only. Up to 3 days, and a new day starts at midnight; ask at the information desk for longer. The desk does not hold luggage.

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 Tokushima Awaodori Airport

Opening hours, lounges, cash, SIM rental and luggage counters at Tokushima Awaodori Airport, as the airport lists them on its own pages.

Opening hours

Closes at 21:30, or when a late last flight has arrived.

Lounge

Airport Lounge VORTIS, 3F departure lobby, before security (from 1 hour before the first departure to the last boarding call) — 1,100 yen for 2 hours at the door, or free with some gold credit cards.

Currency exchange

Currency exchange machine (unmanned), 1F (while the terminal building is open).

ATMs

AEON Bank and Seven Bank.

SIM and pocket Wi-Fi

Wi-FiBOX (self-service Wi-Fi router rental), 1F information desk (06:00–21:30).

Sending a bag on

Hands-free Sightseeing Service (to accommodation in Tokushima Prefecture), 1F information desk (reception 08:30–11:45).

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.

What you can and cannot carry is in our what you can bring to Japan table, and the baggage allowance for your airline is in the airline baggage rules.

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