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| Narita Airport (New Tokyo International Airport,
http://www.narita-airport.jp/en/index.html ) is about 70km-80km train ride from downtown
Tokyo. It is located in eastern part of Tokyo
(geographically, not in Tokyo but in Chiba,
another state or prefecture), perhaps this page would explain without words at single glance.
Precisely, it is 69.3km from Keisei Ueno station on Keisei railway line, or 79.2km from JR Tokyo station on JR East railway line. Each lines have two stations, one for Terminal 1 (end of the lines, real terminal of the
lines), and the other for Terminal 2 (2nd stop from the end of the lines, not
the real terminal stations so you may not
get your seat if you don't have reserved
one before boarding). Regardless you arrived
at either terminal, 1 or 2, once you cleared
the customs and immigration area with best
smile (and finger prints!), you are entering
officially into Japan (^_^) Welcome and Yokoso. |
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Statistically, more than 80 percent of passengers
take Airport Limousine Bus for downtown Tokyo, and the rest would take
either Keisei railway line or JR East railway line . Small percentage is well-off enough to
get cab/taxi with spending around US$250
- US$300 including toll fee. If you were
planning ahead to be picked up, we highly
recommend that you could contact with Tokyo City Tour which would cost actually less than cab/taxi,
and very convenient if you had heavy luggage.
Ready to roll your baggage by yourself? Highway
buses are departing from the same leveled
floor of customes and immigration, so just
walk out of another exit door to inhale true
Japan Air (outside of terminal building),
and you shall find buses line up there.
They are for destinations of T-CAT (Tokyo City Air Terminal), Tokyo station,
Nihonbashi, Ikebukuro, Mejiro, Kudan, Korakuen,
Hibiya, Akasaka (not Asakusa by highway bus),
Shibuya, Takeshiba and Rinkai Fukutoshin,
Minami Osawa, Keio Tama Center, Seiseki Sakuragaoka,
Tachikawa, Y-CAT (Yokohama City Air Terminal), Shin-Yokohama,
Fujimino, Niiza, Shiki, Asakadai, Tokyo Disney
Resort Hotels, Haneda Airport, Shinjuku,
Kinshicho, Toyocho, Shinkiba, Ginza, Shiodome,
Roppongi, Shiba, Ebisu, Shinagawa, Kichijoji,
Chofu, Hachioji, Minatomirai, Shin-Koshigaya,
Soka, Yashio, Fukaya, Kagohara, Kumagaya,
Shinrin Koen, Shin-Urayasu, Chigasaki, Tsujido,
Fujisawa, Totsuka, Nakayama, Hashimoto, Sagami-Ono,
Machida, Honatsugi, Shin-Yurigaoka, Tama-Plaza,
Chiba, Kimitsu, Kisarazu, Matsudo, Kashiwa,
Omiya, Sakado, Kawagoe, Oizumi-Gakuen, Wako,
Tokorozawa, Hitachi, Utsunomiya, Tsuchiura,
Tsukuba Center, Takasaki, Maebashi, Shizuoka,
Kofu, Isawa, Katsunuma, Ota, Oizumi, Tatebayashi,
Kiryu, Ashikaga, Fukushima, Koriyama, Odawara,
Numazu, Gotenba and more! |
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| Cheapest way to get into downtown Tokyo?
Keisei railway line is the route with only
1,000yen one way. Better and full explanation
can be referred at this page, but here's brief information as well. Within
the same one company (Keisei railway line),
there are four types of trains from Narita
Airport to city center, Skyliner is the fastest
and most comfortable with two seaters (2-aisle-2)
reclined at 2,400 yen one way (via Access
Line). A bit slower and less freaquent in
similar comfort car with two seaters (2-aisle-2)
reclined at 1,920yen one way, is called Cityliner
(via Main Line). Access Express is communal
type of seat, long bench style seat, cost
1,200yen one way. Limited Express (via Main
Line) is also communal type of seat, long
bench style seat, cost 1,000yen one way (the
cheapest). Skyliner and Cityliner stops at
Nippori, then terminate at Keisei Ueno Station,
at both of which stations, you may transfer
to JR trains. Access Express and Limited
Express goes also to Keisei Ueno station,
but some hours have trains bound for Asakusa,
Shinagawa and Haneda Airport (via Toei Asakusa Line and Keikyu Line). |
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| Are you a Japan Rail Pass (JR Pass) holder? As you might have noticed by reading
above, skipped reading? well, since it is
only 1,000yen to get into city center, it
is not wise to exchange your voucher to actual
JR Pass at Narita Airport. If you intend
to pass through Tokyo and continue train
riding to another cities, say Nagano, Nikko,
Takayama, Kyoto and more, then of course,
please go ahead and activate the JR Pass
at Narita Airport JR station (both terminal
1 and terminal 2) which has the exchange
office. Sometimes, you may find long queue
with more than 1 hour waiting line (no kidding),
in which case, it is wise to pay the 1,000yen
on not JR but Keisei railway line to downtown
Tokyo. On the same day or later days, you
may be able to exchange/activate the pass
easier at major JR downtown stations like
Tokyo, Ueno, Ikebukuro, Shinjuku, Shibuya,
Shinagawa and more. Please be noticed that
each station has different opening hour for
their counter. This page include where you can do so. |
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Are you a fan of airliners and/or A380 families? Narita Airport has
five routes for the big whale (bird), Frankfurt
(FRT) by Lufthansa, Paris (CDG) by Air France (re-started for Summer 2012), and Singapore
(SIN and LAX) by Singapore Airlines. The least seats (more individual space
with only 407 seats in all) of ever by Korean Air, too, which is for Seoul (ICN). Their time
schedule for departures and arrivals are
as shown below, all activities are based
on Japan Standard Time. Skymark just firmed to order first Japan's A380
commencing service on 2014, perhaps to London
and/or to Frankfurt. Not a fan of AirBus
but looking for B787? Her first commercial
flights over Japan sky in November 2011.
LH-710 lands 08:35 gate 45 terminal 1 South
LH-711 departs 10:25 gate 45 terminal 1 South
AF-276 lands 09:10 gate 15 terminal 1 North
(restarts 2012?)
AF-275 departs 12:45 gate 15 terminal 1 North
(restarts 2012?)
SQ-012 lands 17:05 gate 45or46 terminal 1
South
SQ-011 lands 19:05 gate 45or46 terminal 1
South
SQ-012 departs 18:50 gate 45or46 terminal1
South
SQ-011 departs 20:50 gate 45or46 terminal
1 South
KE-705 lands 20:45 gate 26 terminal 1 North
KE-706 departs 09:10 gate 26 terminal 1 North
You are right to be excited to see two A380s
right next each other as they spot side by
side (gate 45 and gate 46). Daily status
can be checked at this site, please.
Let's find and track your flight on http://www.flightradar24.com/. |
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