Haneda Airport to Yokohama: Keikyu Train, Shuttle Bus, Taxis and Arriving at the Terminals

You step out of the arrivals lobby at Haneda with a suitcase, a phone full of screenshots and a port city on Tokyo Bay waiting at the end of the ride. Signs point toward trains, monorails, buses and taxi stands, and every one of them gets you into the Tokyo area. For Yokohama, the choice narrows to a train line, a shuttle bus or a taxi, and each gives the first hour of the trip a different feel.

How do you get from the airport to Yokohama?

Two public ways link Haneda directly with Yokohama Station, the Keikyu train line and a shuttle bus, and the train is the shorter of the two. A taxi is the third way, and it suits a different kind of arrival.

What decides is mostly what you are carrying and who is with you. A solo traveler with one bag can simply follow the signs to the Keikyu platforms and ride straight into Yokohama Station, the central stop of the city.

A group with heavy luggage may prefer the shuttle bus, where the bags ride below your feet and you stay seated until you arrive. A taxi keeps everyone and everything together from the curb to the hotel door.

Time of arrival matters too. Terminal 3 and the international area of Terminal 2 stay open around the clock, so a late landing still leaves you a clear route out of the building. Where you are headed in Yokohama also counts.

If your hotel sits near Yokohama Station, the train drops you almost at the door. If it sits elsewhere in the city, a taxi or a short onward ride from the station fills the gap.

Whichever you pick, Haneda lets you search routes, departure and arrival times and fares for trains, monorails and buses to your destination right from the passenger terminal. That is worth doing before you commit, especially if you are weighing the train against the bus for the first time.

Your options from the airport

Keikyu train to Yokohama Station

The Keikyu line is the rail link between Haneda and Yokohama Station, and it is the quickest of the public options. It ends at a station that is more central than Shin-Yokohama, so you arrive where the shops, the department stores and the connections to other lines are. From there, JR and several private railways fan out across the Yokohama area and toward Tokyo.

Haneda publishes a video that walks you from the Terminal 2 International Arrivals lobby to each transportation option, and another for the Terminal 3 Arrivals lobby. Watching the one for your terminal before you land takes the guesswork out of the first few minutes. The train suits travelers who like to see the city’s outskirts slide by and who can handle their own bags through a station.

Shuttle bus to Yokohama

A shuttle bus covers the same airport and Yokohama Station trip, taking a little longer than the train. Its appeal is simplicity. You sit down near the airport, you stay seated, and you get off in the city without changing platforms or carrying luggage up and down station stairs.

It suits families, groups and anyone arriving tired after a long flight who would rather not navigate a rail network yet. Use the route search in the terminal to see the bus departures and fares for your arrival. Haneda also runs a free inter-terminal shuttle bus on the landside, so if you land at one terminal and the bus you want leaves from another, you can move between them without paying.

Taxi from the terminal

Haneda has two kinds of taxi stands: general stands and stands for app-dispatched or reserved taxis. If you have arranged a ride through an app or by phone, you must use the dedicated stand for reserved taxis. A general stand is for taxis you simply step into.

A taxi suits a group that would otherwise be splitting up on a train, or a traveler who wants to be driven straight to a particular address in Yokohama. It also helps when the train and bus timetables do not line up with your landing. The route search in the terminal covers trains, monorails and buses only, so for a taxi you simply head for the stand that matches how you booked.

Airport transfer options compared

The gap between the two public options is ten minutes, and what you get for them differs. The train is the shorter ride and drops you at a major station with connections in every direction. The bus takes a little longer, but it spares you the station platforms and the stairs with your bags.

A taxi sits outside this comparison because its time depends on the road. It is the one choice that takes you from the terminal curb to a specific address, and it comes in two forms.

You can step into a taxi at a general stand, or you can arrange one through an app or by phone and meet it at the dedicated reserved stand. For a hotel far from Yokohama Station, that door-to-door run can matter more than the minutes saved on a train.

Travelers heading on by Shinkansen from Yokohama should know that the Nozomi stops at Shin-Yokohama Station, not at Yokohama Station. The two are separate stations, and Yokohama Station is the more central of them. If your plans include a long rail trip westward after your stay, it is worth keeping that in mind when you choose where to be dropped off.

Arriving at the airport

Haneda has three passenger terminals, and which one you land at shapes your first steps. Terminal 3 and the international flight area of Terminal 2 are open 24 hours a day, so international arrivals have a way out of the building at any hour. Terminal 1 and the domestic areas of Terminal 2 are open only from 5:00 am to 12:00 am.

Terminal 2 is where All Nippon Airways, Air Do and Solaseed Air operate their domestic flights, so a connecting traveler may pass through it even on an international trip. An underground walkway connects Terminals 1 and 2, and a free inter-terminal shuttle bus links all the terminals on the landside. If you land at one terminal and want a train, bus or taxi stand reached from another, you can move across without leaving the airport grounds.

Haneda publishes two route videos for new arrivals. One starts in the Terminal 2 International Arrivals lobby and the other in the Terminal 3 Arrivals lobby, and each shows the way to every transportation option. They are the most reliable way to see the layout before you walk it, and they cover the train, bus and taxi choices described above.

When you head back to the airport at the end of the trip, the airlines JAL and ANA offer services to search for and book transportation to Haneda. Those are JAL MaaS and ANA TRAVEL CUBE, and they work for travelers on those carriers who would like to plan the return leg in advance.

Drivers have one more detail. Parking spaces in lots P2 through P5 at Haneda can be reserved in advance, with the details on each lot’s own reservation page. That is relevant if you are picking someone up or leaving a car, but it plays no part in the ride into Yokohama described here.

Good to know before you go

An IC card, the rechargeable kind such as Suica or Pasmo, can be used on trains, buses and boats, and also in vending machines, convenience stores and some taxis. Most regions have their own IC cards with different names and characters, but these cards work throughout Japan, so one card carries you from the airport through the Yokohama area and on to other cities.

Yokohama is a port city on Tokyo Bay, and its harbor has been open since June 2, 1859. That history is the setting for the first view you get once you step out of Yokohama Station. Whichever transfer you chose, the ride behind you is short, and the harbor district is next.