Getting to Oita City

Ferry - ferry to Kobe (13 hours 30 mins) or Osaka (13 hours). Regular ferry services run between between Oita and Kansai via Matsuyama. Overnight ferries also available. Cars and bicycles carried.

Diamond Ferry Kobe - Oita: 13 hours 30 mins

Kansai Kisen Osaka - Beppu: 13 hours 10 mins (stopping service), 11 hours 30 mins

Trains - train to Fukuoka/Hakata 2.5 hours. Connects with the Shinkansen bullet train for Kobe, Osaka, Kyoto, Yokohama and Tokyo. From Fukuoka: 2 hours. From Kokura: 1 hour 20 mins.

Air - There are air connections to Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kagoshima, Seoul and Okinawa. Beppu to Oita airport by hovercraft. Regular buses run to and from Oita Airport from Oita Station, the Cosmopia Shopping Center in Beppu and the bus station in Yufuin.