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This page provides information about equipment and services for customers with hearing and speech disabilities.
The icons named Japan Domestic or International indicate differences in service for Japan domestic and international flights. Content not marked with an icon applies to both, Japan domestic and international flights.
Upon making your reservation, please inform us if you need any assistance when you will be traveling with your assistance dog.
For customers with hearing and speech disabilities, we offer relay services via TV phone, email, fax, and chat. When you use this service via email or fax, please use free format style.
Hearing dogs can accompany customers with hearing disabilities free of charge.
Upon making your reservation, please inform us if you need any assistance when you will be traveling with your hearing dog.
Please arrive at the airport with adequate time to spare.
We will check the hearing dog vest and "guide dog user ID or certificate" upon check-in.
For overseas assistance dogs, we will check the "Application for Temporary Certificate of Overseas Assistance Dog Users" and the "Application for Temporary Certificate of Overseas Assistance Dog Users" displayed on the bodice.
If you need assistance, please inform the airport counter staff at check-in.
For further information, please refer to Customers with Assistance Dogs.
If you board an international flight, your assistance dog may be subject to quarantine depending on the country. You are therefore asked to direct any inquiries about immigration conditions, etc., to the consulate of the country you will be visiting or your nearest animal quarantine office in Japan. Furthermore, certain procedures must be completed upon taking your assistance dog out of Japan and upon bringing it back. Please see the Animal Quarantine Service (AQS) page on the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries website for further information.
Please also see the Notice to Assistance Dog Users from Overseas on the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare website if you will be travelling to Japan together with your assistance dog.
Some of these medical devices are provided with remote control or transmitter functionality. For devices with emit radio waves, they must turned off during the flight.
(Operation of the main part of devices is permitted.)
Guide dogs, hearing dogs, and mobility assistance dogs are permitted on board.
Please contact the ANA Disability Desk for details, as some codeshare partner airlines may accept guide dogs, hearing dogs, and mobility assistance dogs on board.
Please arrive early at the airport in order to have leave enough time for necessary procedures.
60 minutes prior to the departure time
120 minutes prior to the departure time
In order to facilitate smooth communication with deaf and speech-impaired customers, and foreign customers, we have installed a writing board and a communication board at the counters at airports in Japan. There are two types of communication boards, a paper version and an electronic version. The paper version is written in 4 languages, Japanese, English, Chinese, and Korean, and the electronic version is written in 17 languages *.
Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Korean, Hindi, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Vietnamese, Myanmar language (Burmese), Khmer, Malay, French, German, Tagalog, Spanish
Writing Pads
Communication Board (paper and electronic versions)
Remote Sign Language Communication
Remote Sign Language Communication: Using a designated tablet device, the operator simultaneously interprets the communication between the customer and the airport staff in sign language and speech.
Voice-to-text Service
Voice-to-text Service: Recognize the speech of staff and display it in text.
Sapporo (New Chitose), Tokyo (Haneda), Nagoya (Chubu), Osaka (Kansai), Osaka (Itami), Fukuoka, Okinawa (Naha): At the Special Assistance Counter
Communication support tools are available to make our staff clearer and easier to understand. Please ask a member of staff if you wish to use these tools.
Tokyo (Haneda): At the Special Assistance Counter (no.8) next to security checkpoint B
For safety reasons, all customers must undergo the security checks. Please note that the security check may involve contact inspection.
Communication boards have been installed at the security checkpoint.
Passengers with hearing disabilities and foreign nationals can use the boards while pointing at each other to facilitate the security check.
Available in Japanese, English, Chinese, and Korean.
If you download the app, you can document the automatic voice announcement that is flowing at the boarding gate and display it on your smartphone.
In addition to Japanese, English, Chinese, and Korean are also supported, and can be translated and displayed in the language of your choice.
This service is available at departure gates for domestic airports in Japan.
From here, you will be redirected to an external site.
50 domestic airports in Japan
Pre-boarding service is available for passengers who need assistance.
If you wish to use the pre-boarding service, please inform the staff at the boarding gate. Once the aircraft preparations have been completed, you will be allowed to board first. Please note that depending on the flight status, this service may not be apply.
For smooth communication on board the aircraft, cabin attendants use tablet devices.
Cabin attendants who are qualified with 4th or upper level of the Sign Language Proficiency Test*, will wear a sign language badge with them and can provide assist with using sign language. Please feel free to ask for assistance.
Available on some flights.
Some of our in-flight movies and other video contents are available with closed captions. Closed captions provide audio information including the casts' speech, narrations, and sound effects. This service is available in Japanese and English.
If you have requested assistance for disembarkation, please remain seated until our staff comes to your seat to escort you off the aircraft. Our staff will escort you to the arrival lobby or to the person meeting you for pickup. Please feel free to ask. Please inform us upon reservation, or contact the ANA Disability Desk in advance.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact the ANA Disability Desk.