Kansai International Airport Terminal Map
Osaka · Japan· Kansai International AirportKansai International Airport (IATA: KIX, ICAO RJBB) is a large airport serving Osaka, Japan, with 2 terminals and 38 gates, about 50 km from central Osaka.
Kansai International Airport (KIX) serves Osaka, Japan. It has 2 terminals with 38 gates in total and handles about 21 million passengers a year. The airport is about 50 km from the city centre. Ground transport into the city: rail, bus and ferry.
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Kansai International Airport is built on an artificial island in Osaka Bay, about 38 km from central Osaka, and handles around 34 million passengers a year (2025). Its structure is not complicated, but the two buildings serve entirely different traffic: the T1 main building across the sea bridge carries every traditional airline, while T2 on the far side of that bridge is the low-cost terminal — the terminal number on your boarding pass decides directly whether you have an extra shuttle bus ride ahead of you.
The two terminals
| Code | Name | Main carriers | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| T1 | Terminal 1 | JAL, ANA and the international airlines | Domestic and international flights |
| T2 | Terminal 2 | Peach and other low-cost carriers | LCC only |
How to work out where you are: full-service airlines are all at T1; see Peach and other low-cost carriers and they are almost always at T2. T2 has no direct link to the bridge, so from the railway station side you reach it by free shuttle bus.
Our diagram draws T1 as the signature extra-long slab and T2 as a separate small building precisely to mark the shuttle link between the two.
Transfers and connections
- A T1-to-T2 transfer needs the shuttle bus; allow more than 90 minutes for the connection. A transfer within one building saves the most time.
- International-to-domestic and domestic-to-international transfers are both completed inside the T1 main building, with the process concentrated under one roof.
Routes and flights
| Aspect | Details |
|---|---|
| Routes | The gateway to the Kansai region, operating 24 hours a day; about 33.55 million passengers in fiscal year 2025, of which 21.2 million were international foreign visitors, a record; the network covers East and Southeast Asia, North America and Hawaii |
| Flights | Around 33.55 million passengers in fiscal year 2025, with international and domestic traffic roughly balanced |
| Aircraft | Peach Aviation is one of the main bases, with the low-cost T2 terminal dedicated to it; JAL, ANA and ANA Wings also fly A320-family aircraft from T1 |
Getting into Osaka
- Nankai Rapi:t — a limited express reaching Namba in about 38 minutes, with carriages and a timetable both designed around travellers.
- JR Haruka limited express — about 30 minutes to Tennoji and about 50 minutes to Shin-Osaka, with some services running through to Kyoto in about 80 minutes; useful if you are continuing elsewhere in western Japan.
- Airport buses — cover the main districts of Osaka and Kobe.
- Taxi — a considerable distance once across the bridge, so it only pays when shared.
Practical tips
- Osaka also has Itami Airport (ITM), which handles domestic routes only. When a search turns up "Osaka", always check the three-letter code: international and low-cost flights are mostly at Kansai (KIX), while ANA and other domestic flights are mostly at Itami.
- T2's facilities are pared back, with fewer places to eat and fewer check-in counters than T1, so arrive earlier still for a low-cost flight.
- On an artificial-island airport, strong winds can bring speed limits on the bridge, so if you are pressed for time choose the railway rather than the bus.
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Gate ranges, main airlines and facilities for each terminal at Kansai International Airport.