Introduced at Haneda Airport Terminal 1

In a space where people come and go, riding the wave, connecting journeys. Several vehicles circulate along the busy corridor, following its flow. We designed the mobility from the space — how people move, the scenery around them — and designed its operation around the diversity and purposes of its users.

On September 1, the new iino model iino type-S950 began operating at the North Satellite Facility of Haneda Airport Terminal 1. It travels autonomously from the passage to the North Satellite Facility to Gate 29.

Living Flow

In a space where people come and go, riding the wave, connecting journeys.
From here to somewhere. From now to what comes next.
Connecting places, layering time, carrying feelings.

The iino type-S950 is mobility that designs flow. Several vehicles circulate along the busy corridor, carrying travellers to their boarding gates.

Flexible and comfortable — a moving space that fits its place. It designs the moment of departure for the highly fluid environment of an airport.

Design born from the place

The S950’s design starts from how people move through the terminal, its dimensions, the scenery and even its scent. People hurrying to the gate with suitcases; people spending a moment with family or friends before they leave. The beautiful timber interior, and the forest scent of fresh conifer rising through the terminal. We read each element that makes up the space and turn it into design.

The vehicle is 950 mm wide: the width at which two iino can pass each other in the roughly 4 m corridor beside the moving walkway while keeping a safe distance from people around them. Based on ridership data, it carries up to four people to handle peak demand.

So that people of all ages can ride with confidence, there is space to lean while standing and seats to sit back in. The height and curve of the handrails were fine-tuned so that people with suitcases and small children can ride safely.

The smooth, wave-like timber body and compact scale blend with the space and reduce the vehicle’s sense of bulk, bringing reassurance and comfort and helping it share the space with pedestrians.

The riding space is laid out so your gaze naturally turns outward — to the warm timber interior and the aircraft lined up beyond the large windows. Sound from the mobility layers gently over the forest scent, and pre-flight tension slowly eases.

The time spent moving becomes a moment of feeling the place. A form born from the airport becomes part of its scenery, connecting travellers to their next place.

Operations that fit the place

If design starts from the place, we believe operation should be designed from the place too. Haneda, Japan’s gateway to the skies, is used by all kinds of people and is always changing. Rather than “always the same”, we aim to build a service that responds flexibly to the situation.

In future, iino linked with flight information will change its route and shift where it waits to match passengers’ movement, then take riders to their gate automatically.

iino will also be deployed for people uneasy about moving through the large airport, families with small children and people with heavy luggage, supporting smooth movement. Responding to the movement of the whole terminal, we aim for operation that fits that time and place — changing placement, routes and the number of vehicles.

Drawing the future of getting around

Designing form from the place, and designing its operation.

Into the vehicle’s dimensions and materials, its seat layout and sound design. Into the way it moves, tuned down to 0.1 km/h and a few centimetres of route. We weave that space in, piece by piece — and in that rich process, we want to draw the future of getting around.