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

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

Who runs it

Yamato Transport

Where the counter is

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

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

JAL ABC in the Terminal 3 arrivals hall charges 1,500 yen a bag and delivers the same day to hotels in Urayasu, Odaiba and Maihama if you drop it off by 13:00. One bag, up to 15kg.

Leaving a bag at a counter

Measured across the three sides added together, per bag per day. The limit is 300cm and 30kg, and they hold bags for up to two weeks.

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

Those are the Terminal 1 and 2 rates. Terminal 3, where international flights arrive, charges 500, 700, 900 and 2,000 yen per 24 hours. All lockers are outside the gates, and you can leave a bag for up to seven days.

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.

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.

What you can and cannot carry is in our what you can bring to Japan table, and the baggage allowance for your airline is in the airline baggage rules.

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

How it works here

International flights land at Terminal 3 and most domestic flights leave from Terminal 1 or 2. A free shuttle bus runs between the terminals, and the Keikyu line and the monorail also connect them.

Domestic check-in

JAL 05:30-11:00 and 13:30-19:45, ANA 05:30-19:30 at the domestic transfer check-in counter on the 2nd floor.

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.