Fukuoka Airport is situated near the center of the city, only five minutes by subway from Hakata Station and 11 minutes from Tenjin. The nearby expressway interchange makes it convenient for people from throughout Kyushu. The air network connects Fukuoka to 22 domestic cities and 16 Asian cities, serving a total of about 17.29 million people in 2008. Our geographical location resulted in the major growth in the ratio of visitors from Korea, China, Taiwan and other East Asian lands in 2006, setting a new record of about 890,000 international passengers. International trade, including both import and export values, was 1,202,400 million yen, and again, major trading partners were East Asian countries such as Korea, China and Taiwan. The annual economic effect of Fukuoka Airport has been estimated at 791,300 million yen for the Kyushu region overall, and 333,700 million yen for Fukuoka City. The airport plays a major infrastructural role not only in Fukuoka’s travel and distribution industries, but also in economic, cultural and academic exchange, and contributes to the continued development of the extended city region and all of western Japan.
In 2008, Fukuoka Airport handled a total of about 135,000 take-offs and landings, approaching its annual runway capacity of 145,000 flights. The airport faces a number of urban problems caused by its location, such as noise pollution and regulations on building height, and continues to operate only with the understanding and cooperation of the people of the region.

Hakata Port has flourished as a center for exchange with the Asian continent and Korean Peninsula for over two thousand years, and has developed together with the city.
Today, Hakata Port imports a diverse range of freight related to daily life, including grain, furniture, fruit and vegetables, and clothing and daily necessities, while exporting products including tires, reusable materials such as post-consumer paper waste, industrial machinery, chemicals and automobile components. The economic and employment effects of Hakata Port’s distribution functions have been estimated as accounting for more than a quarter of Gross City Products and employment – an evidence of its crucial role in supporting daily life and the economy in Kyushu and western Japan.
In particular, there has been a steady increase in seaborne container freight in recent years, surpassing 760,000 TEU in 2008. Hakata Port is connected to major ports around the world by 166 regular containerships a month (as of February 2009) on 31 routes.
It also services a number of domestic and international passenger liner routes, with multiple ferry and Jet-Foil routes connecting Fukuoka to nearby Busan, Korea. In 2008, over 850,000 passengers passed through Hakata Port making it the ocean gateway between Kyushu and the rest of East Asia.