Oita Airport to Beppu, Oita and Yufuin: the Airliner Bus, Fares, Paying and Beppu's Bus Passes

Oita Airport sits on the Kunisaki peninsula, across Beppu Bay from the hot spring town, and the Airliner bus run by Oita Kotsu is how most visitors get to Beppu and Oita. If you are continuing round Kyushu, Fukuoka, Kumamoto and the bus and streetcars in Nagasaki have their own guides, and the JR Kyushu passes are in our pass guide.

The airport bus

The airport lists these routes and adult fares:

Primary school children pay half. Children from 1 to 5 ride free, one per paying adult. You cannot get on at intermediate stops on a bus leaving the airport, and departure times shift if a flight is late. No reservation is needed; it is first come, first served.

Paying

Buy a ticket from the machines beside the bus information desk in the arrivals lobby or at the bus stop. Only the machine beside the desk takes credit cards. On board you can pay with a transit IC card, though not at a discounted fare. Oita Kotsu also sells a pair of one-way tickets for 3,000 yen, only through its Bus Chiketto Oita mobile ticket app.

Kamenoi Bus passes in Beppu

Kamenoi Bus runs Beppu’s local buses and sells these free-ride passes on its official ticket site:

The passes cover all Kamenoi route buses in Beppu, including the Guruspa loop buses to Kannawa and Myoban. The current passes are valid from 1 July to 31 December 2026. Paper passes are also sold at Kitahama Bus Center, at the WANDER COMPASS BEPPU counter in JR Beppu Station, in Kannawa and at Yufuin Station Bus Center.

The wide pass mentions the Yufurin sightseeing bus to Yufuin, but Kamenoi’s news page carried a notice on 30 September 2026 that all Yufurin services are suspended. Check before you plan on it.

The pass site, the bus tracker and the airport bus times all want a connection. Set up Saily at home and you land in Oita online, and if you fly on to another country, top up the same Saily profile there.

Emergency numbers

The Japan National Tourism Organization lists 110 for police and 119 for fire and ambulance. Its Japan Visitor Hotline, 050-3816-2787, runs 24 hours a day in English, Chinese and Korean.