Narita Airport to Tokyo: how to get out of the airport

Getting from Narita Airport into Tokyo

What the airport itself publishes for each way in.

Keisei Skyliner

The fastest way in. Reserved seats only.

Narita Express (N'EX)

One way in an ordinary reserved seat. Holders of a foreign passport can buy the N'EX Tokyo Round Trip Ticket for 5,200 yen instead.

Narita Express (N'EX)

One way in an ordinary reserved seat. Holders of a foreign passport can buy the N'EX Tokyo Round Trip Ticket for 5,200 yen instead.

Narita Express (N'EX)

One way in an ordinary reserved seat. Holders of a foreign passport can buy the N'EX Tokyo Round Trip Ticket for 5,200 yen instead.

AIRPORT BUS TYO-NRT

The low-cost bus between Narita and Tokyo Station. Late-night and early-morning buses cost more.

Free shuttle buses link the terminals: 14 minutes between 1 and 3, 3 minutes between 3 and 2, 10 minutes between 2 and 1.

Step by step from Narita Airport

• Tokyo Stationfrom 1,500 yen · 53 min at the quickest
• Shinjukufrom 3,330 yen · 80 min at the quickest
• Shibuyafrom 3,330 yen · 90 min at the quickest
• Shinagawafrom 3,330 yen
• Ikebukurofrom 2,300 yen · 90 min at the quickest
• Ueno and Nipporifrom 2,580 yen · 36 min at the quickest
• Asakusafrom 3,100 yen · 110 min at the quickest
• Ginzafrom 3,600 yen · 90 min at the quickest
• Yokohamafrom 4,000 yen · 85 min at the quickest
• Tokyo Disney Resortfrom 2,900 yen · 56 min at the quickest
• Haneda Airportfrom 1,810 yen · 80 min at the quickest
• Roppongi and Akasakafrom 3,600 yen · 105 min at the quickest

Inside Narita Airport, terminal by terminal

Which airlines use which terminal, where the station is, and the lounges, showers, beds, SIM counters, ATMs and baggage counters in each building.

• Narita Airport Terminal 1NRT · 47 airlines
• Narita Airport Terminal 2NRT · 42 airlines
• Narita Airport Terminal 3NRT · 9 airlines

Sending your bags on, or leaving them here

Japan's courier network reaches this airport, so a case can go to your hotel without you.

Who runs it

JAL ABC, Sagawa Express and Yamato Transport

Where the counter is

Terminal 1 1F and 4F, Terminal 2 1F and 3F, Terminal 3 1F

Counter fee

660 yen on top of the delivery charge.

How long it takes

Next day, or the day after for some areas.

Same day to a hotel

Sagawa's counter takes same-day orders between 06:30 and 14:00 for ten Tokyo wards and selected hotels in Urayasu.

Worth knowing

Every baggage counter at Narita carries the government's hands-free travel mark, which means staff can serve you in English.

Coin lockers

What it costs to put a bag down for the day.

A day runs until midnight, not 24 hours from when you put the bag in. Lockers in Terminal 2 basement and Terminal 3 second floor charge by the hour instead: 300 yen for the first six hours in a small one, then 400 yen for each further 24 hours. An extra-large locker (H227cm) costs 1,200 yen per 12 hours.

The lockers that deliver to your hotel

The MULTIECUBE lockers let you search for a free one and reserve it (500 yen on top). Leave a bag by 11:30 and they will deliver it the same day to a participating hotel in ten central Tokyo wards or Urayasu. Membership registration is required for both.

Getting online

Rental counters are in the arrivals hall here, so you can sort a connection after you clear customs.

eSIM

Bought before you leave home and installed over Wi-Fi, so you land connected. Needs a phone that takes an eSIM and is not carrier-locked.

Prepaid SIM

Sold at the arrivals counters and vending machines at the larger airports. You swap your physical SIM — keep the old one safe.

Pocket Wi-Fi

A rented router for several devices at once. Picked up and dropped back at the airport counter, or posted back.

Free Wi-Fi

Available in the terminal. It stops when you leave the building.

What happens between the plane and the exit

The same order at every international airport in Japan.

1. Quarantine — a health check as you come off the aircraft.
2. Immigration — fingerprints and a facial photograph, for everyone aged 16 and over, then the landing permission seal in your passport.
3. Baggage claim.
4. Animal and plant quarantine — before customs. Meat, fruit, vegetables, seeds and plants go to this counter first.
5. Customs — green channel with nothing to declare, red channel otherwise.

Register on Visit Japan Web before you fly and you get one 2D code that covers both immigration and customs. You need a phone or tablet to show it.

Connecting onto a domestic flight

You clear immigration and customs here, at the first airport you land in.

How it works here

If you are flying on to a domestic flight from Haneda rather than Narita, the train takes about 90 minutes and costs 1,760 yen; the limousine bus takes 65 minutes and costs 3,600 yen.

Your bags

On one ticket with one airline they are normally checked through. On separate tickets, or across a low-cost carrier, you collect them and check in again.

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