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Old Jul 20, 2025 | 8:36 am
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Originally Posted by The _Banking_Scot
Hi,
Do you have large /heavy luggage.? If you have a large case you may need to reserve an oversize luggage space on the shinkansen.
It is about 2hr 5 mins from Kyoto to Shinagawa then maybe 20-25mins on the train to HND

About 55mins by bus to Osaka Itami airport. ( not kansai) If choosing to fly JL from ITM to HND then JL will tag the bag through on separate tickets to the US

With a 4.25pm flight, either option would be good as you can leave kyoto mid morning.

I personally like exploring airports (and have lounge access) so would probably take the bus to ITM then fly ( if only hand baggage then i would take the shinkansen)

Regards

TBS
Thank you TBS very much for your reply.

Very helpful.

I too, like airports, my wife, not so much

Flying J so lounge access would be available at HND.

I will have to look into the relative costs for either option, but since we will have some larger pieces of luggage with us, I myself would like to check them in at ITM and be done with it!

Thanks again for your help,

Sincerely,

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