Prayer Room for Moslem at Haneda and Incheon Airports

Last new-year holiday I flew out of Tokyo on Korean Air, headed to my homecountry. Departed from Haneda (Tokyo, Japan) and transited at Incheon airport (Incheon, South Korea). Here I am sharing some info regarding prayer room for Moslem provided by both airports. In Haneda airport, the prayer room was relatively easy to be found. It is located at the 3rd floor. If you go up using the elevator, as the door open you'll find an information desk. Then turn left, walk to the very corner. It is also clearly written on the homepage of Haneda Airport (http://www.haneda-airport.jp/inter/en/premises/service/others.html#pray) as the map is easy to understand.

The door of the prayer room is always locked. You should click on the intercom's button (hanged on the wall, right side of the door) and ask for permission to the officer to use the prayer room. They will always give you permission to use that room after you speak in the intercom either in English or Japanese.

You can take wudhu inside the room. Your compass or qibla director may not work inside the airport, but don't worry since the prayer room also provides wind-direction indicator at the corner of the roof. Let's keep the prayer room clean, do not eat or sleep inside :)

Move to the prayer room at Incheon Airport. Since the airport itself is very huge, it was quite difficult for me to find the prayer room. Well, it seems that there are several prayer rooms there (for many religions) so that one could not find Moslem's prayer room just by following information written on the homepage of Incheon Airport (http://www.airport.kr/iiacms/pageWork.iia?_scode=C2603030900). Even if you ask to some airport's officers, it may difficult for you to find since only few officers know where the Moslem's prayer room is and also very few of them noticed that the info on the web is different from the actual location. I realized this after looking around the airport and talked to several officers. Some of them didn't know and some of them gave me wrong info. Until finally I found the officer that showed me the exact location and told me that it's different from the location mentioned in the homepage. Honestly this is the reason I am writing this article. On the webpage, it's written that prayer room is located near to gate 29.

Actually, Moslem's prayer room at Incheon Airport is located near to gate 24 (duty-free area).

It is on the side that facing the windows (of the airport) and some chairs for departures waiting, not on the side that facing the main corridor. Find the following:

The room doesn't provide water faucet for taking wudhu. However you could find toilet not so far from the gate 24. As shown in figure bellow, the Qibla is drawn (by somebody else, not by me!) on the wall. In the case of that drawing has already been removed, hmmm let me try to remember. The arrow was drawn on the back side of the wall standing right in front of the door. So, the Qibla maybe 45 degree to the left from the door. But I really am not sure! Please figure it out by yourself, I am sorry.

However, I hope this article could help you to find Moslem's prayer room in these airports. Especially in Incheon Airport where the actual location of Moslem's prayer room is different from that is written on the homepage. Good luck!