Wing Shuttle

Wing Shuttle
Overview
Locale	Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan
Transit type	Automated guideway transit
Number of lines	2
Number of stations	6
Operation
Began operation	4 September 1994
Operator(s)	Kansai International Airport Co., Ltd.
Technical
Electrification	Conductor rails, 600 V 50 Hz 3φ AC
Top speed	35 km/h (22 mph)

Wing Shuttle interior

The Wing Shuttle (ウイングシャトル, Uingu Shatoru) is a people mover system at Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan. The system opened on 4 September 1994, with the opening of the airport itself. The driverless people mover lines link the main terminal building and the tips of two wings. All the stations are equipped with platform screen doors. Trains operate roughly once every 2 minutes and each route is 545 metres (1,788 ft) long.

After the Narita Airport Terminal 2 Shuttle System was decommissioned in 2013, this is the only airport people mover in Japan.

Lines and stations

There are two lines, each running on the North Wing and the South Wing. Both lines have two services; one each terminates at midways, another each terminates at tips. Stations of two lines share same names, although all of them are different stations.

Station name	Japanese	To Midway	To Terminal	Gates
North Wing
Shuttle Station	本館駅	+	+	16, 101–103
Midway Station	中間駅	+	-	1–3, 12–15
Terminal Station	先端駅		+	4–11
South Wing
Shuttle Station	本館駅	+	+	26, 27, 41, 111–113
Midway Station	中間駅	+	-	28, 29, 38–40
Terminal Station	先端駅		+	30–37

Trains stop at stations signed "+", skip at "-".

See also

• List of airport people mover systems
• People mover

External links

• (in Japanese) Wing Shuttle, from Kansai International Airport official website
• (in English) International Departure Procedures, from Kansai International Airport official website
• (in Japanese) Wing Shuttle, from the official website of Niigata-Transys, the car manufacturer.