HOW TO GET FROM HANEDA and NARITA AIRPORT TO TOKYO: Transport, Costs, Tips on Landing

HOW TO GET FROM HANEDA and NARITA AIRPORT TO TOKYO: Transport, Costs, Tips on Landing

Hi everyone, welcome to my channel. My name is Tina. In today’s video, I want to tell you first of all how you will get from Haneda or Nadita airport to Tokyo to the city center and also a couple of things that you should check when you arrive at the airport. I’m working as a content creator and a tour guide in Tokyo and I see a lot of people who are coming for the first time to Japan who are overwhelmed by the amount of different options for public transport that they have and who are just in general overwhelmed by how to get around in Tokyo. So, we are going to start at the beginning your arrival at the airport in this video. Before I tell you exactly how you get from the airport to Tokyo, let me give you a general overview over how you can navigate in Tokyo. You arrive at the airport and then you will get somehow to Tokyo and you will very likely get to one of the major train stations first. Many of the major train stations that are Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ikuburo, Tokyo station and Shinagawa. And did I miss anything? All of them are on the Yamanote line. And the Yamanote line is like a loop line in Tokyo. It has a green color. All of the JR trains have a color so that you can recognize them pretty easily. But it’s still confusing because you have JR lines, you have private trains like Oda Q line, you have the subway, and all of that is going to be a little bit maybe confusing for you. But Yamano line, if you coming for the first time to Japan, you can navigate with the Yamanoto line because it’s a loop line and it is going to bring you to major train stations and the major attractions in Tokyo. So, you can’t do much wrong with it. And now, usually you would go from the airport, you would go to Tokyo, and then you would want to go to your hotel. And because I don’t know where your hotel is, I will give you some more general advice on how you hopefully will get there. You’re getting to Tokyo and you’re getting to one of the major train station. The next thing you want to do is you want to find a hotel. There are several apps that you can use for that. And um the easiest one, the best one is Google Maps. Before I use Google Maps, I was using Yahoo Nikai anai. This would be my recommendation if you can speak fluently or read Japanese because this was back then the best app. I think like I compared a couple of I tried out a couple of different apps and Yahoo, Nordikai, Ani was the most correct one regarding roots, prices. Google Maps however, so just recently I traveled a lot and in every country that I’ve been to, I’ve used Google Maps for navigation and it works in nearly every country. It’s just a huge help. It can show you exactly which kind of trains you have to take and at which platform you have to get on the train, where you have to change trains, where you have to get off the train. It shows you exactly how long it’s going to take and how much it’s going to cost. It’s very accurate. It also shows you a couple of live updates. For example, if there are any delays, which doesn’t happen a lot in Tokyo, but it happens, or if a train isn’t running, which also happens from time to time, um Google Maps is going to usually show that. So, Google Maps is my number one recommendation. There are a couple of others and that I don’t know anymore why I would use them. Jodan, Hipadia, I think are two apps that many people are using. These two would be in English. So maybe the best bet that you have if you don’t speak Japanese. Then you have Na’vi time. Yahoo Navi Yahoo Ni app like that that are in Japanese if they haven’t changed that in the meantime. How to get from Narita airport to Tokyo. Right. Nadita airport is a little bit further away from Tokyo. If you didn’t know, Nadita airport is in Chiba Prefecture and it’s more like a twohour train ride or car ride to get to Tokyo. If you’re getting one of the express trains, maybe it’s going to be an hour or so. So yeah, it’s a little bit inconvenient to go from or to get to Nadita airport and it has less to offer. You have a very nice scenic view if you’re getting from Narita to Tokyo. You can get one of the um station bentos called ekiban and just eat that on your way to Tokyo. Nadita was built first. Haneda came second. Haneda was supposed to be for national flights. So you have more options for international flights from and to Narita, but nowadays I feel like there are also tons of international flights coming to Haneda airport. I would always choose Haneda because it’s so much closer to the city. But don’t worry, I’m going to tell you exactly how to get from Narita to Tokyo. So from both airports, you have basically the same options to get to Tokyo. Option number one, get a taxi or a car ride. I would recommend you not to take taxis in Japan. They are very expensive and as I already mentioned, you have about a 2hour car ride from Narita. Hanida is going to be a little bit closer. So approximately you might be paying about 100 USD for Haneda for a car ride or maybe a little bit more even. And you might be paying, I don’t know, it’s just a guess, about $300 US from Narita. Yeah, it’s going to be a lot more expensive from there. So, my recommendation would be to not take a taxi. And if you really want to take a car, book one in advance so that you know how much it is going to be because if don’t if you might be surprised if not like you know, if you just take Japanese taxi drivers are probably not going to rip you off. Japanese people are very honest. There is no reason here to rip tourists off in any shape or form. But still, it’s going to be expensive. And if you don’t want to be like like really shocked about it, just check in advance. Ask your option number one is ask the taxi driver. Also, very easy and way cheaper. Take a bus. You know, uh you can book them in advance online if you want to make sure to really get a seat. I I can’t predict how busy it’s going to be. You will probably also get a seat if you just arrive and buy a ticket there. There are ticket counters for the buses. There are different companies to choose from from like the normal bus to a limousine bus. Bit more like the better version I would suppose. Also night buses. So if you arrive very late, you have mainly these two options. If you’re arriving late at the airport, you can take a car, a taxi or a bus because trains stop running around midnight in Japan on average. Like some are maybe like shortly after midnight. But if you have to get off the plane and then get to your train etc etc you have to calculate all that in and wait for your luggage and blah. So all in all if you’re arriving very late maybe you try to get a bus ticket or worst case is you’re getting a hotel room at the airport somewhere there are enough hotels as well so you’re not going to be stuck anywhere. it’s only going to cost a little bit extra because you would have to pay for the hotel room or you would have to pay for a taxi which is expensive or night buses are also a little bit more expensive than the ones that are running throughout the day. I heard I hope that’s correct that a normal bus can be like,300 yen and a night bus would be like 2,600 yen. Usually buses will have enough space for your luggage which can also not be said for a taxi. Yeah, you don’t know depending on how much luggage you have. It’s also I don’t know if a taxi can accommodate for all that luggage if you have like several suitcases. You know what I mean? So in that case anyway you would probably need to book like an airport transfer an airport um how are they called and right from the airport basically that has enough space for your luggage as well. And um buses obviously they’re going to have enough space for luggage if you’re not having like five different suitcases. Hm. Just in case you feel uncomfortable dragging around your luggage, you can also get it delivered. There are now delivery services available. I think one of them is by Kuro Neco Yamato, right? And there are some others. Just look into that if you feel more comfortable doing that. If you’re arriving at a very normal time at the airport, I would honestly recommend taking the train. So, some people take the bus. Um, anyway, it’s up to you, but you can take the train as well. It’s incredibly easy. You don’t have to change trains, at least not very often. Like it brings you to the city center and then from there it’s also very easy. Just try to avoid the rush hour. The rush hour is usually between well, let me guess, 7:10 a.m. And then after 5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. it’s getting crowded again on trains in Tokyo. Not the one from the airport. The one from the airport will be mostly reserved by people that are coming from the airport. But if you’re then in Tokyo and you try to get to your hotel with your luggage, maybe try not to do that during rush hour. For your own convenience, let me just look at my notes while I’m telling you exactly what kind of trains you can use. From Nada, you have the the Nadita Express that directly connects to Tokyo, Shinagawa, Shinjuku, Shibuya. It’s about 3,000 yen or a little bit more than 5,000 yen for the cream car. Cream car is like first class. You have to be careful for some trains in Tokyo. There are green cars and you have to be careful if you’re only having a normal ticket not to accidentally get on the green car. These are often like two storied cars like the bigger ones. And there’s this green clover on it. The sign look be careful. Even like Japanese people sometimes don’t know you have to stand at a certain point when getting on the train. And only certain train lines, not all of them. Nadita Express is going to be a little bit faster. about 1 hour to get to Tokyo with it. Like the fast trains are really fast in Tokyo. You can also take the K skyliner that um goes from terminal one and that will bring you to Kuino station or Nepoi station which are again on the Yamanote line, the loop line and from there it’s easy to get anywhere else. Even though Nepi station is a little bit confusing, um the Casey Skylliner is about 40 minutes and 2,500 yen. Option number three is to take one of the slower trains, the JR lines directly from the airport. Then it will take you about two hours to get to Tokyo. You have different options for different routes. So, I don’t want to list up all the different options that you have. For that, use one of the apps that I mentioned or use Google Maps. It would cost you around 1,000 yen to do that. It’s really cheap compared to the others and will take you an hour more. But then, yeah, depends. If you’re really on a budget, try that. I mean the buses are also very cheap so it doesn’t make a big difference in the end and you would have to change the train if you take the normal JR lines you would need to change the train you can for example the Narita airport k line to kabashi station and transfer to the sou line to Tokyo station so and there are a couple of others that are very similar to summarize that taxis are the most expensive but they will bring you directly to your hotel but I would really book it in advance so that you make sure you know how much it is. Buses are quite convenient because they are cheap. You will get a seat because you need to buy a ticket either like in advance or at the airport. There’s space for your luggage and um they bring you to one of the like Tokyo station or Shinjuku station and from there if you have a hotel that’s not too like far away. It should be pretty easy as well. There’s going to be other tourists on the bus that you can also communicate. And the train is I think my favorite. I’m always using the train in Tokyo. Tokyo is a city that train travel is such a thing here in Japan and there are the the fast narida express kana very very fast trains that bring you in the blink of an eye the to the city center and yeah but it depends what’s the best for you again you can also let your luggage be delivered okay so how to get from airport to Tokyo yeah it’s more or less the same thing so Haneda airport is a little bit closer and so you’re faster in Tokyo Haneda is really cool. They just reasonably build it. Like it’s not that old and there is a lot to do. Like you can spend a whole day there. You can do sightseeing at Haneda airport. So you have shopping options and dining options there. At Hanida airport you have a robotics lab. You have an observation deck. You have the Nihon bashi bridge that they built for that. You have a shrine. More dining and shopping options than at Nadita. It’s like a little bit of a theme park that they built there. You know what I mean? So, Han is interesting. Some YouTubers have made videos about Han airport because you can do so much there that you can make a separate video about it. Yeah, if you have the option, check out airport. The other thing about Nadita, I did not even mention that. Very good thing about Narita airport is Narita shrine. Narita, you have a big shrine there and I visited it the last time I went there and it’s very impressive. Haneda airport has maybe a shrine inside the airport, but it’s not as cool as the Narita temple. Help Narita shrine or temple because it’s Narita Sun. Which is it? Narita Shinji Temple. Good, good, good. The cool thing about Narita is that there is a big temple close by. And at Hanida, you might have a temple or a shrine, a shrine inside of the airport, but close to Narita, there is Nadasan and a big big temple. I went there the last time I was there and it’s really impressive. Like you can um you have it’s close to Nadita station um like maybe 10 15 minutes from the airport and I got a hotel there and if you have a little bit of time left, you should visit that temple. The temple is impressive and the street that leads to the temple. There are a lot of cute shops and souvenir shops and street food and restaurants. It’s a nice area to hang out. Can highly recommend. Okay, back to the topic. So, how to get from Honey Day to Tokyo? We have basically the same options. Option number one is taxi. Not my favorite. Um, it’s going to be cheaper obviously than from Nadita already mentioned probably around $100 US and it’s going to take you 30 to 40 minutes to get there. Same thing with the buses. There are several bus companies. Maybe it’s good to book one in advance. If not, I’m sure you will get a ticket at the airport when you arrive. And there are night buses and normal buses. And yeah, third option from Haneda, the trains from Haneda airport, you can use the mono rail that will bring you to Hamamatsu station which is again on the Yamanuta line. It’s close to Tokyo Tower and then you can switch to the Yamanuta line that will bring you to any other of the major train stations. Also, you can take the KQ line which is going to bring you to Shinagawa station. Same concept. You’re going to be on the Yamanot line and from there and the Yamanot line is going to bring you to all the other major train stations. They’re both about 500 300 yen each. So quite cheap. In general, transportation in Tokyo, it’s maybe I don’t think it’s possible to use a JR pass in Tokyo that much. But um rest assured, transportation in Tokyo isn’t that expensive if you use trains and subway. Uh, usually in the city center for one train ride you would pay on average between 100 300 yen for one train ride. So I think it’s pretty cheap for one day of sightseeing. If you do one day of sighting using trains and subway, you would probably usually use less than 2,000 yen every time. I’m having like a job as a tour guide. I’m never charging my IC card more than 2,000 yen and it’s always enough. So, I’m never spending more than that for a whole nearly whole day in Tokyo. And now, let me give you a quick checklist of things that you might want to think about when arriving at the airport. Number one, check the time if you’re arriving very late or not. I think I mentioned that, but trains stop running at midnight. That’s just as it is, unfortunately. So, if you’re arriving late, you can either take a taxi again, maybe book something in advance um to make also sure that you get where you want to get to or take one of the buses, night buses, or just get a hotel at the airport. There are also lots of hotels. It’s going to cost a little bit more, but you know, I think that are the options. Number two, money exchange. The common consensus is don’t exchange money at the airport. It’s going to be the rates are bad. either exchange it before you come to Japan or when you’re in Tokyo. I personally never done that. My recommendation would be to just get money at an ATM. I have not met anyone in a long time who was not able to get cash at an ATM. There are ATMs everywhere, at every hotel, probably at every convenience store, at every bank, at every shopping mall. You will and if one of the ATMs doesn’t work, then try an international bank like City Bank. But usually really I haven’t had someone in a long time uh who couldn’t get cash at an ATM here. You can get an IC card at the airport. IC cards are the cards that you use on trains for the subway and for buses. You know, you just charge them and then you can get on all of the public transports. You can also now get it in Tokyo. A couple of things have changed. You can get a SUA card now also in Tokyo. And you can also download it on your phone if you’re using an iPhone. Uh you can link it to your Apple wallet. That works as well. You can do that before you come to Japan. The thing is, if you get an IC card, if you want a physical IC card, get it at the airport because then you can use it right away. If you’re using the bus or if you’re using the train, if you’re not planning on getting a taxi anyway, then an IC card, you can already get it at the airport and then yeah, can check that off your list. You can get SIM cards at the airport or pocket Wi-Fi. Um, they might be more expensive because like the airport there are a lot of tourists. I don’t know. I’ve never gotten one. I was using an eim all the time while I was traveling and personally I think that’s the most convenient thing ever. You do not have to go anywhere. You just have to download an app and install it. It’s very easy. Don’t know why people still buy SIM cards because then you actually have to go to the shop. You usually pay more. EIMS can be quite cheap. They have less data volume than regular SIM cards. If you want more data, you should get a regular SIM card probably or a pocket Wi-Fi. Again, I’ve never gotten one, but they cost more money. Eims, I’m using Alo. It’s the cheapest one as far as I know. It has worked in 99% of all countries that I’ve been to. I’ve been to a lot of countries. It has worked perfectly here in Tokyo. Um, even better than my phone contract that I have right now actually. So, mobile. So, anyway, Eralo, I’m using um I have the link in the description below if you want to check them out. You can check on their homepage which which phones are compatible with erlo and then yeah usually 99% of all phones are compatible can be sometimes tricky to install it but the support is very quick in helping you so that was not a promotion that was genuinely I’m using this one and it was good you can get your luggage be delivered I mentioned that in this video there are luggage delivery services if you’re feeling like dropping everything and just getting to your hotel as quick as possible I can understand that feeling. I did that too. So, luggage delivery is an option. Language barrier. I think many people at the airport should be able capable of talking to you in English. Uh, rest assured, many Japanese people actually understand English to a certain degree. It’s more that they know they are very shy sometimes and don’t use it because of that or they are aware that they are not very good in like speaking. They learn to write and read it. So anyway, if you’re coming to Japan and are worried about the language barrier at the airport, it should be fine. Also in Tokyo, it kind of should be fine. Like the worst case is that you try to talk to someone and this person is running away because they don’t understand it or they are just afraid. I don’t like this is the worst case scenario probably. That’s it. That was my starter guide for people arriving in Japan for the first time probably. So I hope this video helped you prepare your trip to Japan. If I missed anything, if you feel that I missed anything, please let me know in the comments. Again, my name is Tina. I’m kind of a long-term resident in Japan and I’m working here as a content creator and as a tour guide. You can book me as a tour guide. Hi. I hope you enjoyed this video. Um, if you found this video useful, don’t forget to give it a like and also subscribe if you haven’t yet. Uh, if you want to see more videos like this, I’m going to make more videos like this in the future. Uh, yeah. Thanks for watching and I see you then in the next one. Bye-bye.

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00:00 Introduction
00:54 Navigation in Tokyo, Apps
03:42 Narita Airport to Tokyo
04:49 Taxi or airport transfer
05:54 Highway bus, night bus
08:20 Train: Narita Express, Keisei Skyliner
11:55 Haneda Airport to Tokyo
14:09 Taxi or airport transfer14:23 Highway bus, night bus
14:35 Train: Monorail, Keikyu Line
15:59 Checklist for Arrival

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