This page introduces how to get to Wakayama from various parts of Japan and to various places within Wakayama Prefecture.
Please use this as reference for your trip.
Access from major cities in Japan
Access from Tokyo to Wakayama (by air)
To Kansai Airport/Shirahama Airport
- Haneda Airport → Kansai Airport: approx. 1h10m (16 flights/day)
- Haneda Airport → Shirahama Airport: approx. 1h10m (3 flights/day)
- Narita Airport → Kansai Airport: approx. 1h30m (7 flights/day)
From Kansai Airport to Wakayama
- Kansai Airport → Hineno → Wakayama: 50m-1h10m
- Kansai Airport → Izumisano → Wakayama City: 50m-1h
Access from Tokyo to Wakayama (Railway)
Shinkansen（to Shin-Osaka）
- Tokyo → Shin-Osaka：2h25m
- Hakata → Shin-Osaka：2h30m
From Shin-Osaka to Wakayama/Shirahama
- Shin-Osaka → Wakayama：1h10m（特急くろしお）
- Wakayama → Shirahama：1h30m（特急くろしお）
Access from Kansai (Osaka) and various parts of Wakayama Prefecture
Check out the rail access map for the area you want to visit.
Wakayama City area
- JR Wakayama Station
└ JR Wakayama Line → Iwade, Kinokawa, Hashimoto, Koyasan, Nara
└ JR Kinokuni Line (Kisei Main Line)
→ Kinan
→ Nankai Wakayamashi Station
└ JR Hanwa Line
→ Osaka
└ Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line
→ Kinokawa City (Kishigawa Town) - Nankai Wakayamashi Station
└ Nankai Main Line → Osaka
└ Nankai Kada Line → Kada (Wakayama City)
└ Nankai Wakayamako Line → Wakayama Port (Wakayama City) → Ferry to Tokushima
└ JR Kisei Main Line → JR Wakayama Station
Koyasan area
JR/Nankai Hashimoto Station
└ Nankai Koya Line → Koyasan
→ Towards Osaka
└ JR Wakayama Line → Towards Wakayama City
→ Towards Nara
Kinan （South Wakayama）area
JR Kinokuni Line (Kisei Main Line)
Wakayama Station
→ Yuasa Station
→ Gobo Station
→ Kii-Tanabe Station
→ Shirahama Station ← Shirahama Airport
→ Kushimoto Station
→ Kii-Katsuura Station
→ Shingu Station → Towards Mie