Originally Posted by
msb0b
Just took this bus to Narita Airport this morning. I hoped to take it into the city too but I just missed it.
The bus is almost brand new. It has 4+1 seats per row. The fare box has a felica reader for ic cards such as suica, but when I inquired the driver said cash only. The bus does not have onboard lavatory. There was another company rep along to assist with loading and unloading of luggages.
I boarded the bus at the starting bus stop near Yurakucho station. 4 passengers in all boarded here. The Yurakucho station is also used for other routes depending on time of hour. The bus left right on time at 7:25.
At the Yaesu stop, the bus picked up about 7-8 pasengers. The bus departed about 3 min late, but still made it to T1 at scheduled time of 8:40. We did not encounter any traffic during the outbound trip.
In all I am very happy with the price and performance of this service.
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How is this viable? 12 passengers equals 12,000 yen. Do buses actually pay the posted tolls? Large vehicles are normally double so it's 900 for the Shuto and then ~1400 yen so 2300 x 2 = 4600 yen in tolls alone.
The Limousine bus got on and off the Shuto to avoid the back-up over the Rainbow bridge (he took the non-toll portion). Getting on and off incurs more cost for a regular vehicle even with the new distance based tolls.