Haneda Airport International Terminal

We arrived to Haneda on a direct flight from Honolulu, party of 5 with a senior citizen and 2 kids included. We were happy that our flight time was shorter than anticipated (strong tail winds) BUT unfortunately the airport was not ready to accept us at the gate.
The longest part was going through the immigration line, because it had been a long flight, and we arrived rather late in the evening. The area was PACKED, like sardines packed. It has been many years since my last international flight, so it was a little bit of a shock. Trying to keep the kids up during that line was a challenge, but we somehow managed.
The airport itself was very clean and relatively easy to navigate. We located a nearby store that set us up with mobile WiFi hotspot service which was a lifesaver! Because it was late and we had a family member came to pick us up for the ride into Tokyo, we didn’t get to really explore the airport.
The very next day, we actually had to return to Haneda to collect one of our suitcases which had been missed the night before. We did not realize how easy it was to commute by train and monorail from our hotel and back, and were pleasantly surprised by this little side adventure discovery. We browsed around the little sundry stores and picked up a few items before catching the monorail and connecting train back to the hotel. Our confidence in navigating through this foreign country was growing!
On our departure out of Haneda 11 days later, we were running late (due to the senior in our group directing us to a different longer train route) so we were unable to eat at any of the restaurants outside of security… oh how delicious everything smelled as we rushed by to get thru! We did get a chance to stop for curry and ramen at a shop inside closer to our terminal.
We will definitely make more time to explore this airport on our next trip through!

I like Haneda over Narita airport. It is closer to Tokyo with a lot more easier connections. Since it is closer, it is also generally cheaper. There is plenty to keep one occupied here while on a lay over or waiting for friends to fly in.
The second floor where the shops and restaurants are located is designed to look like village so it does not feel like an airport. There are many places to sit and some hidden areas for kids to play.
There is a free bus that connects the international terminal to the 2 domestic terminals.

I’ve only flown a RT to Haneda once and realized that in the future it should be a must booking if one can choose between there and Narita with the same price. It is just one convenient fourteen minute monorail ride to Tokyo — Minato and drops you off at the famous JR Yamanote Line at Hamamatsucho Station, which then takes you to wherever else you need go. Super convenient, much faster and cheaper than the services from Narita, which takes about an hour.
The airport has a few gift shops and restaurants to chose from but basic stuff, nothing close to the vast emporium of goodness one can find at Narita. This I know from several layovers I’ve had here on the way to and fro to other cities. Haneda is quickly perused and honestly, it is lacking in choice. It is a smaller airport than Narita and was the primary one for Tokyo until Narita was built in the 70’s but it has added a 4^th runway and a special terminal for international travel and is challenging Narita for business.
So it should considerably up it’s food game.
On second thought, if I could I would fly in to Haneda and fly out of Narita. That way I’d get the convenience of LAX type closeness to the city coming in and a multitude of excellent restaurants and great shopping on the way out, so I could enjoy a great last meal and a plentiful choice of shops and duty free goods.
4 stars. Class it up and I’ll give you 5.

This is THE airport you want to fly into if you are visiting Tokyo. Narita (the other one) is the massive International airport more than an hour outside of downtown Tokyo and Haneda is super conveniently a 15 minute ride on the monorail from downtown. It’s seriously that awesome. If one has a choice when visiting Tokyo why you would fly to Narita? I came to Tokyo with 3 brothers for a holiday. Two flew to Narita and had a 1.5 hour customs wait upon arrival. Our customs wait at Narita was 5 min. Even better if you are transiting through its that close that you could zip downtown Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ginza or elsewhere for a few hours and bounce back to catch your connecting flight. How awesome would that be?
The airport has multiple restaurants before security and strong selection after security as well. There are gift shops on the upper levels. Before security there is a convenience store (buy up those mini Japanese green tea flavour Kit Kat bars and other Japanese snacks). Pricing in the convenience store is reasonable.
After customs and security there is quite a bit of shopping and as mentioned food options. I had sushi (will come in my next review) and was blown away by the quality of airport sushi. Read my next review to hear more.
The monorail is connected to the airport. Tsukiji fish market is a couple of stops away. Hurry up if you want to visit as they are moving to a new location later in ²⁰¹⁶⁄₁₇.
On the upper level there is a nice observation deck in which you can get outside to see and hear the planes taking off. This is nice at an airport as its good to get some fresh air and not many airports have this. It’s fenced in well so no one can jump onto the tarmac.
WIFI is free and seemed to work okay but you have to resign on every so often.
Overall it’s clean, seems efficient and a pleasure to fly through!

Excellent terminals, clean, spacious, bright and entertaining. Plenty of personnel (staff) all over to ask directions. (not all speak English).

Immigration and customs weren’t too painful although they didn’t like family members going to the counter together and we ended up in separate lines.
Baggage drop-​off was a little unclear and we waited in the line to drop off parcels for shipping! At least our baggage carts were free (it was $ 5 in American airports!)
We took the shuttle from the international to domestic terminal which was relatively painless.
Overall clean and efficient, just like Japan as a whole.

Good Airport, nothing to complain. Usually the imigration is working fast, ground Transport is organized very well. The departure area is offering a lot of silent Areas with seating possibilities. Good duty free offer and other Fashion Shops.
I personally prefer Haneda instead of Narita due to ist proximity to downtown area and railway Connection.

One of my favorite air ports. It is clean and beautiful. There are always amazing art exhibits up & the lighted trees are stunning. It’s super easy check in for delta just use the terminal to make it simple for yourself. The duty free shops are huge. There are plenty of free carts to use before and after bag check. Everyone pretty much speaks English. They have a kids play station over by gate 146. There are tons of places to eat at. It’s pretty nice.

AMAZING airport with trees lit up for the holidays. I couldn’t even believe this was an airport given how nice it was. Again the Japanese manage to out do themselves, not even at the airports! This was during the New Years so they had all these new year activities like festival/​omatsuri booths, a live geisha/​ninja show, lottery booths, free gifts etc. All the dress up characters (ninjas, geishas) were walking everywhere giving us lottery tickets. My mother, sister and I all got a lucky key chains. It was awesome. I don’t think I have been to a nicer airport. I was explaining to my host family that the WORST restaurants are the ones that have chains in the airports in the USA such as Wendy’s, Burger Kings, McDonalds, Panda Express, Subways, etc (you get the point and I’m sorry if these are some of your favorite restaurants-​they are all fast food of course). On the contrary, the Japanese manage to put the most famous top restaurants/​affiliations in the Haneda airport. What a treat ;) There are plenty of small cute stores for you to buy gifts Japanese omiyage everywhere. The contrast between airports in the USA and Japan tis so great that my Japanese Family almost did not believe me. Did you know that there are also showers in the arrivals terminal? In case you wanted to bath just before leaving the airport to look and feel you best– logical but totally random and totally japanese (they are very clean people). People should just come, visit, eat and hang out at the Haneda airport. Great food and New Year’s activities to pass the time. The security was efficient and organized. Again — another Japanese feat. Wonder if we Americans can ever do anything like that?

Flew out of here for the first time last week on my way to Bangkok. Much better than Narita and way closer to the city as well. Try to fly in and out of here when visiting Tokyo for convenience, though this is still mainly known as the domestic airport. The terminals here are much newer and nicer overall than Narita as well. It’s way cheaper and easier to get to Haneda as well (around $ 6 vs the $ 12−30+ to Narita).

Beautiful terminal with an observation deck to see planes take off and landing! Love all the shops! Restrooms are very new and clean. We had ramen (六慶會？） by gate 114, it was awesome. This is my favorite terminal so far!

30 minutes closer to the city center of Tokyo. I think Japan Guide might be paid to endorse Narita International, cause that’s all you see from this site. Great service at both and easily accessible by train. One of the best airports in the world. MY favorite bathroom airport is at this location hahaha. If you’ve been in the international terminal then you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t, then you have yet to use the best restroom of your life.

If you’re lucky enough to book a flight to Tokyo, you’re event luckier if you nab a ticket to/​from Haneda. It’s the smaller (perhaps older?) of the two area airports but it’s much closer to central Tokyo and will take much less time to get to/​from if you’re traveling around Tokyo between hub stations like Tokyo Station, Shinjuku, etc.
If you’re wild about Duty Free and looking for tons of options, then this is not the perfect airport for you. There are still high end shops, souvenir shops and restaurants, but not nearly as many.
In true Japan style though, it’s clean and easy to navigate. I’ll always look for flights to Haneda to save on travel time!

Haneda Airport has a lot to offer!
If you only have a short time in Tokyo, that’s will be the best airport to fly into as it is really close to the city. A 15 minute ride and a cost of 500 Yen, Monorail will transport you to Central Tokyo. Imagine if you can even schedule a 20 hour layover and just go into the City for some sushi and ramen instead of just waiting in the airport itself.
For short layover, there is a lot of option inside the terminal. The food court opens ²⁴⁄₇ so you can have some decent Japanese food any time your flight landed. There is also a lot of quiet area to chill out.
The only complain maybe is the WIFI connection. There are only some specific area that you can get a strong signal and there are a lot of dead zone… But at least it is free?!

Angenehmer, kleiner und somit recht übersichtlicher Flughafen, den man nun auch aus dem deutschen Sprachraum direkt anfliegen kann, was oft recht bequem ist, weil viele Inlandsflüge von da weggehen.

Beautiful spacious airport. There are 3 young Southeast Asian guys guys in handcuffs boarding my Cathay Pacific flight to Hong Kong… A first for me. But as I was boarding I noticed Japanese men dressed in dark navy suits with «Immigration» badges. On the flight the 3 no longer had handcuffs and were seating among the passengers. I assume it was a simple overstay case.

This international terminal is on the another station from the domestic terminal.
And between the terminals, you can take free bus shuttle.
If you arrive this terminal from the abroad and have enough time to transit a domestic fright, you should take airport shuttle better than the JAL or ANA buses.
The JAL and ANA buses go inside the security gate.
Inside the gate you have less choices than the outside in the terminal building.
Just go out this international terminal and take a shuttle.
電車やモノレールでも違う駅になる国際線ターミナル。
大阪に帰るのなら、むしろ成田の方が便利なのが正直なところ。
帰国便では到着後、入国審査、そしていったん荷物を受け取り税関を通過して到着ロビーへ。
そこからJAL、ANAのカウンターで乗り継ぎができるのですが、今回はちょっと失敗。
なぜなら次の乗り継ぎ便までかなり時間があったにもかかわらず、国際線の到着ロビーで手続きしてしまったから。
そうすると、そのまま荷物チェック受けてバスで国内線ターミナルへいき、もう出発ゲート前に来てしまうわけです。
お腹空いてたので、ターミナルの中で何か食べたかったんだけど、荷物チェック後は選択肢が減りますよね。
ということで、時間がある方はそのまま無料のバスで国内線ターミナルへ行ってから乗り継ぎの手続きしても良いと思います。

A very clean and well organized airport. The minute you step off the train at the international Keikyu station, there are free trolley carts for your luggage and you can get your refund for your passmo right at the information counter. Very convenient.
Once you take the lift up, stop by the 7 – 11 to grab some cool flavoured kit kats! Amazingly, they are cheaper than other places!!!
The passport control is pretty smooth sailing on a weekday morning at 7am. All counters were open and we got through immigration within 5−10mins!
There’s free wifi at haneda. Just gotta provide your name and email address but they won’t verify the email address. The Internet is fast! There’s a bunch of shops in haneda, namely Royce chocolate and tokyo banana to grab for a quick souvenir!

Since the United just started a new route from SFO to HND, I wanted to try this route arriving in Japan late in the evening.
I arrived here once before when ANA started from LAX, but this one arrives early in the morning, make is convenient for theose with connecting JP domestic flight.
If I arrive in Narita, I will arrive at the late afternoon and I will get decent sleep, but arriving so late at Haneda, I wasn’t sure how I will feel. So staying up the whole time from SFO, I was very tired when the flight arrived at HND shortly after 10pm.
Immigration line is always long. Not much different from Narita. I wish they will open up more booth for foreign visitors. Haneda international terminal is smaller than Narita, walking to the immigration area seemed to be shorter than Narita.
After clearing immigration and customs, I was glad I chose to fly into Haneda. My hotel was located at the domestic terminal 2, which was only a short bus (free) ride from the international terminal. I was in my room relaxing by 11pm. I had six decent hours of sleep and was on my way to the next flight.
I also took a train from Haneda to downtown Tokyo before. Quick express train to Shinagawa is a little over 10 mins. How close is that! Can’t go anywhere in 10 mins from Narita.
Since I didn’t fly out of Haneda, I can’t comment on other facilities, but this location is so good, I would fly in here again.

Haneda Airport (HND) is a first class airport. Modern amenities, easy transportation to and from the heart of Tokyo via the trains (about 30 minutes), drive in yourself, easy access in and out of the airport. Everything is new, modern, nice and appealing to the tourist traveler or frequent traveler to Japan.
The departures level is easy to maneuver. Checkin counters are easy to find, the airline agents are nice (Japanese people are nice), the departure immigration lines aren’t super long, departure gates have comfy seats, there are tons of great restaurants (find that Katsu restaurant), and duty free shops galore. Free wifi throughout the airport as well.
Arrivals level is easy as well. They have a paid to use shower rooms for the needy traveler. Love it!
I’d fly out of Haneda airport before Narita anytime!

Yeah it aint Narita but what is?
Haneda is a very efficient airport to zip in and out. It is not as large as it’s sister but it runs just, if not more, efficiently.
Very easy to get in and out. Great bus system to all of the prefectures at a very reasonable price. Taxi or car service is very expensive into Tokyo.