diff --git a/hbase-mapreduce/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableSnapshotInputFormatImpl.java b/hbase-mapreduce/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableSnapshotInputFormatImpl.java
index 501209f1c902..903aa1039f8a 100644
--- a/hbase-mapreduce/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableSnapshotInputFormatImpl.java
+++ b/hbase-mapreduce/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TableSnapshotInputFormatImpl.java
@@ -424,74 +424,76 @@ public static List<InputSplit> getSplits(Scan scan, SnapshotManifest manifest,
 
     Connection connection = null;
     RegionLocator regionLocator = null;
-    if (localityEnabled && useRegionLoc) {
-      Configuration newConf = new Configuration(conf);
-      newConf.setInt("hbase.hconnection.threads.max", 1);
-      try {
+    List<InputSplit> splits = new ArrayList<>();
+    try {
+      if (localityEnabled && useRegionLoc) {
+        Configuration newConf = new Configuration(conf);
+        newConf.setInt("hbase.hconnection.threads.max", 1);
+
         connection = ConnectionFactory.createConnection(newConf);
         regionLocator = connection.getRegionLocator(htd.getTableName());
 
         /* Get all locations for the table and cache it */
         regionLocator.getAllRegionLocations();
-      } finally {
-        if (connection != null) {
-          connection.close();
-        }
       }
-    }
 
-    List<InputSplit> splits = new ArrayList<>();
-    for (RegionInfo hri : regionManifests) {
-      // load region descriptor
-      List<String> hosts = null;
-      if (localityEnabled) {
-        if (regionLocator != null) {
-          /* Get Location from the local cache */
-          HRegionLocation location = regionLocator.getRegionLocation(hri.getStartKey(), false);
-
-          hosts = new ArrayList<>(1);
-          hosts.add(location.getHostname());
-        } else {
-          hosts = calculateLocationsForInputSplit(conf, htd, hri, tableDir);
+      for (RegionInfo hri : regionManifests) {
+        // load region descriptor
+        List<String> hosts = null;
+        if (localityEnabled) {
+          if (regionLocator != null) {
+            /* Get Location from the local cache */
+            HRegionLocation location = regionLocator.getRegionLocation(hri.getStartKey(), false);
+
+            hosts = new ArrayList<>(1);
+            hosts.add(location.getHostname());
+          } else {
+            hosts = calculateLocationsForInputSplit(conf, htd, hri, tableDir);
+          }
         }
-      }
 
-      if (numSplits > 1) {
-        byte[][] sp = sa.split(hri.getStartKey(), hri.getEndKey(), numSplits, true);
-        for (int i = 0; i < sp.length - 1; i++) {
+        if (numSplits > 1) {
+          byte[][] sp = sa.split(hri.getStartKey(), hri.getEndKey(), numSplits, true);
+          for (int i = 0; i < sp.length - 1; i++) {
+            if (
+              PrivateCellUtil.overlappingKeys(scan.getStartRow(), scan.getStopRow(), sp[i],
+                sp[i + 1])
+            ) {
+
+              Scan boundedScan = new Scan(scan);
+              if (scan.getStartRow().length == 0) {
+                boundedScan.withStartRow(sp[i]);
+              } else {
+                boundedScan.withStartRow(
+                  Bytes.compareTo(scan.getStartRow(), sp[i]) > 0 ? scan.getStartRow() : sp[i]);
+              }
+
+              if (scan.getStopRow().length == 0) {
+                boundedScan.withStopRow(sp[i + 1]);
+              } else {
+                boundedScan.withStopRow(Bytes.compareTo(scan.getStopRow(), sp[i + 1]) < 0
+                  ? scan.getStopRow()
+                  : sp[i + 1]);
+              }
+
+              splits.add(new InputSplit(htd, hri, hosts, boundedScan, restoreDir));
+            }
+          }
+        } else {
           if (
-            PrivateCellUtil.overlappingKeys(scan.getStartRow(), scan.getStopRow(), sp[i], sp[i + 1])
+            PrivateCellUtil.overlappingKeys(scan.getStartRow(), scan.getStopRow(),
+              hri.getStartKey(), hri.getEndKey())
           ) {
 
-            Scan boundedScan = new Scan(scan);
-            if (scan.getStartRow().length == 0) {
-              boundedScan.withStartRow(sp[i]);
-            } else {
-              boundedScan.withStartRow(
-                Bytes.compareTo(scan.getStartRow(), sp[i]) > 0 ? scan.getStartRow() : sp[i]);
-            }
-
-            if (scan.getStopRow().length == 0) {
-              boundedScan.withStopRow(sp[i + 1]);
-            } else {
-              boundedScan.withStopRow(
-                Bytes.compareTo(scan.getStopRow(), sp[i + 1]) < 0 ? scan.getStopRow() : sp[i + 1]);
-            }
-
-            splits.add(new InputSplit(htd, hri, hosts, boundedScan, restoreDir));
+            splits.add(new InputSplit(htd, hri, hosts, scan, restoreDir));
           }
         }
-      } else {
-        if (
-          PrivateCellUtil.overlappingKeys(scan.getStartRow(), scan.getStopRow(), hri.getStartKey(),
-            hri.getEndKey())
-        ) {
-
-          splits.add(new InputSplit(htd, hri, hosts, scan, restoreDir));
-        }
+      }
+    } finally {
+      if (connection != null) {
+        connection.close();
       }
     }
-
     return splits;
   }
 
diff --git a/hbase-mapreduce/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TestTableSnapshotInputFormat.java b/hbase-mapreduce/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TestTableSnapshotInputFormat.java
index c24f8e62c816..3c1753421335 100644
--- a/hbase-mapreduce/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TestTableSnapshotInputFormat.java
+++ b/hbase-mapreduce/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/TestTableSnapshotInputFormat.java
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HDFSBlocksDistribution;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Admin;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RegionInfo;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Scan;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Scan.ReadType;
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.ImmutableBytesWritable;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.mapreduce.TableSnapshotInputFormat.TableSnapshotRegionSplit;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.snapshot.RestoreSnapshotHelper;
+import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.snapshot.SnapshotManifest;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.snapshot.SnapshotTestingUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.testclassification.LargeTests;
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.testclassification.VerySlowMapReduceTests;
@@ -683,4 +685,49 @@ public void testReadFromRestoredSnapshotViaMR() throws Exception {
       }
     }
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Tests that TableSnapshotInputFormatImpl correctly caches and uses region locations when
+   * locality is enabled
+   */
+  @Test
+  public void testRegionLocatorUsesCache() throws Exception {
+    final TableName tableName = TableName.valueOf("testRegionLocatorCache");
+    Configuration conf = UTIL.getConfiguration();
+    try {
+      // Create table with multiple regions
+      createTableAndSnapshot(UTIL, tableName, "snapshot", getStartRow(), getEndRow(), 3);
+
+      conf.setBoolean(SNAPSHOT_INPUTFORMAT_LOCALITY_BY_REGION_LOCATION, true);
+
+      Path tmpTableDir = UTIL.getDataTestDirOnTestFS("snapshot");
+
+      // Get snapshot manifest and region info
+      SnapshotManifest manifest = TableSnapshotInputFormatImpl.getSnapshotManifest(conf, "snapshot",
+        CommonFSUtils.getRootDir(conf), UTIL.getTestFileSystem());
+      List<RegionInfo> regionInfos =
+        TableSnapshotInputFormatImpl.getRegionInfosFromManifest(manifest);
+
+      Scan scan = new Scan();
+
+      List<TableSnapshotInputFormatImpl.InputSplit> splits = TableSnapshotInputFormatImpl.getSplits(
+        scan, manifest, regionInfos, tmpTableDir, conf, new RegionSplitter.UniformSplit(), 1);
+
+      // Verify that splits contain proper locality information
+      Assert.assertNotNull(splits);
+      Assert.assertTrue(splits.size() > 0);
+
+      // Verify locations are populated from cache
+      for (TableSnapshotInputFormatImpl.InputSplit split : splits) {
+        String[] locations = split.getLocations();
+        // Locations should be populated from cache
+        Assert.assertNotNull(locations);
+      }
+
+    } finally {
+      UTIL.getAdmin().deleteSnapshot("snapshot");
+      UTIL.deleteTable(tableName);
+      conf.unset(SNAPSHOT_INPUTFORMAT_LOCALITY_BY_REGION_LOCATION);
+    }
+  }
 }