Kansai International Airport

Is Free WiFi Spots availble as soon as I get there?

Japan rental pocket WiFi available!

Rent a pocket WiFi to enjoy your visit Japan! You would be connected as soon as you receive it at the airport.
Availabile at the following airports : Narita, Haneda, Kansai International Airport and more! Click here for more details.

Brand	NINJA WiFi	Vision Global WiFi	Wi-Ho! by Telecom Square	Softbank by Global Mobile	Japan WiFi	JAL ABC
Device image	Wi-Fi Router	Wi-Fi Router	City Wi-Fi Router	Wi-Fi Router	Wi-Fi Router	Wi-Fi Router
Data Limitation	UNLIMITED *1	UNLIMITED *1	UNLIMITED *1	UNLIMITED *1	500MB / day	UNLIMITED *1
Rental Fee per day (JPY)	¥772 / day	¥616 / day Converted at ¥110/USD. Payment in JPY not available.	¥770 / day Converted at ¥110/USD. Payment in JPY not available.	¥480 / day	¥858 / day	¥900 / day SPECIAL OFFER!!
Rental Fee per day (USD)	USD7.02 / day Converted at ¥110/USD. Payment in USD not available.	USD5.6 / day *Applies only to USD.	USD7 / day SPECIAL OFFER!!* *Applies only to USD.	USD7.09 / day Converted at ¥110/USD. Payment in USD not available.	USD7.8 / day Converted at ¥110/USD. Payment in USD not available.	USD8.18 / day Converted at ¥110/USD. Payment in USD not available.
Other Currency payment available	-	-	SGD / TWD / HKD / KRW / CNY / GBP / EUR / AUD / CAD / INR / PHP / THB / VND / MYR / IDR	-	-	-
Minimum rental period	1day	1day	1day	2days	1day	1day
Download Speed	Download : MAX 187.5Mbps (4G LTE) Upload : MAX 37.5 Mbps (4G LTE)	Download : MAX 187.5 Mbps (4G LTE) Upload : MAX 37.5 Mbps (4G LTE)	Download : MAX 187.5 Mbps (4G LTE) Upload : MAX 37.5 Mbps	Download : MAX 612Mbps (4G LTE) Upload : -	Download : MAX 150 Mbps (4G LTE) Upload : MAX 50 Mbps	Download : MAX 187.5 Mbps (4G LTE) Upload : MAX 10 Mbps
Pick-up Fee	At Airport / free	At Airport / free	At Airport / free	At Airport / free* *1,100 yen will be charged when your rental period is less than 7days.	At Airport / free	At Airport / free
Return Fee
Booking	in English in Simplified Chinese in Traditional Chinese in Korean	in English	in English	in English	in English in Simplified Chinese in Traditional Chinese in Korean	in English
Brand	NINJA WiFi	Vision Global WiFi	Wi-Ho!	Softbank	Japan WiFi	JAL ABC

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Free WiFi case : Can we survive only with Free WiFi?

Kansai International Airport offers Free WiFi service at the airport area. It covers almost all the buildings including Terminal 2 which is a little far from Terminal 1.

Imagine that you are at the airport, just arrived. What would you do first? Send a message that you've had a safe flight to your family or friends? Seach how you get to the big city like Osaka? Look for what time train / bus will leave? Search for what and where to eat tonight? In order to get those information you need to ask an information desk or need an Internet access to serch for. In Kansai International Airport you can access to KIX Free WiFi. Since Free WiFi is limited to the airport area you would need to finish to look for all the information you need before you leave the airport. It would take 20 minutes? It might be an hour? That you would have to wait before you head to your destination.

It's not only demerit of Free WiFi that it takes time before you leave the airport but also that free WiFi has almost no security. You wouldn't want to be stolen of your password or other personal information. So you'd better be careful when you use Free WiFi network.

Prepaid SIM case : Easy to get one via a vending machine but sufficient?

If you think about getting a prepaid SIM at the airport you would find a veding machine around arrival gate. It has 3 sizes of SIM card. There are 2 options for period of use, 14 days and 7 day and it depends but its data limit is sometimes up to 200MB per day. If you watch youtube or facebook with video you immediately run out of the data limit as you might notice. After you exceed its limit, the speed will be very slow like 200kbps. So if you're thinking about getting a prepaid SIM at the airport you'd better make sure how you going to use your smartphone during the trip. It might be enough unless you don't always connect to the Internet. You might not waste your time at the airport but you might always have to worry about data limit. One thing you should know is that the SIM card sold at the airport you have to return the SIM to the address written in the intruction.

Rental Pocket WiFi case : How much convenient would it be with a Rental Pocket WiFi?

Let's see what rental pocket WiFi case would be like. If you have prebooked a rental pocket WiFi you just go to their counter and pick up the device. (If you don't, you need to ask for at a walk-in counter of rental WiFi company.) The WiFi rental company counters are easy to find, just around the arrival gate after custom. Picking up the rental pocket WiFi you can set up at once easily. Then you would be connected. If you want to know the fastest way to get to the hotel you're going to stay tonight you would want to use GoogleMaps for navigation. GoogleMaps is very useful app when you're traveling abroad. Since you would be always online you could decide what to eat and check where your hotel exactly is on the way to Tokyo. You would have about one and a half hours anyway. You wouldn't waste any time at the airport and make the most of the transit time.

Conclusion

As a conclusion, it would be much more fun with a retal pocket WiFi because you're always online. That means you don't waste your time during your stay. You don't have to look for free WiFi spots anymore. Use that saved time going one more spot to see, for one more ramen to eat or exploring Japan one more step deeper!