Expanded International Sakura Lounge at HND and Improved Int'l-Domestic Connections

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Jul 26, 2014, 4:36 pm

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Expanded International Sakura Lounge at HND and Improved Int'l-Domestic Connections

Inside undivided F section on both 4 & 5 floors, Champagne Marie Weiss Brut was placed yesterday.

Jul 26, 2014, 9:42 pm

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Inside undivided F section on both 4 & 5 floors, Champagne Marie Weiss Brut was placed yesterday.

That's an improvement since I was there. Last couple of trips where Narita based, so have not been since mid June.

Aug 6, 2014, 8:42 pm

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Has anyone heard rumours of a specific opening date for the renovated F lounge. We are in August, so a few more details than 'end of August' should be available.

Aug 23, 2014, 4:39 am

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Has anyone heard rumours of a specific opening date for the renovated F lounge. We are in August, so a few more details than 'end of August' should be available.

I was in the Sakura lounge at HND a couple of days ago, and I asked one of the staff at the front desk when the F lounge would open. She then replied that it would be finished 29th of August. Haven't been able to confirm this, but sounds likely

Aug 27, 2014, 11:35 pm

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Press Release is out for the opening of JL's F Lounge which is tomorrow 29 August. English details not yet available.

https://www.jal.co.jp/inter/lounge/hnd_first/

*RED Suite - 4 themes located at the far-end corner of the F Lounge - Library, Bar, Gallery and Play Rooms
*So there will be shoe shine service at the RED Suite in collaboration with John Lobb.
*Enhanced dining menu - chefs cooking for you "special" pancakes in the morning and Wagyu/Pork Hamburg Steak
*Free massage will also be available aside from the massage chairs

Meanwhile Narita's Main F Lounge will have sushi chefs to make nigiri sushi.

F Lounge menu until 30 Sep can be found here below

https://www.jal.co.jp/inter/lounge/pdf/first/food.pdf

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Aug 28, 2014, 12:31 am

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Press Release is out for the opening of JL's F Lounge which is tomorrow 29 August. English details not yet available.

https://www.jal.co.jp/inter/lounge/hnd_first/

*RED Suite - 4 themes located at the far-end corner of the F Lounge - Library, Bar, Gallery and Play Rooms
*So there will be shoe shine service at the RED Suite in collaboration with John Lobb.
*Enhanced dining menu - chefs cooking for you "special" pancakes in the morning and Wagyu/Pork Hamburger
*Free massage will also be available aside from the massage chairs

Meanwhile Narita's Main F Lounge will have sushi chefs to make nigiri sushi.

F Lounge menu until 30 Sep can be found here below

https://www.jal.co.jp/inter/lounge/pdf/first/food.pdf

It look very nice, looking forward to test it soon.

On a linguistic note, what the chefs will be offering in the evenings is not a hamburger in the internationally understood sense as a meat patty in a bun. But the in Japan quite comon "Hamburg Steak". Press release says "hanbaagu", not "hanbaagaa" (transcriped from katakana)

Aug 28, 2014, 12:42 am

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lol. Thanks for the correction. This is one of the effects of living for a while in Japan where one makes linguistic errors more often due too many katakana/japanized english. Correcting my comment above.

Aug 28, 2014, 1:10 am

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looks great. The sakura J lounge was perfectly pleasant during the renovations if a bit crowded downstairs so looking forward to trying the new F lounge next month

Aug 28, 2014, 5:30 am

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Katakana is sometimes terrible to get the right word out of. Particularly when dealing with a french menu. ;-)

Aug 28, 2014, 8:27 am

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Some pictures of the lounge were uploaded by JL on their official FB page.

https://www.facebook.com/jal.japan/p...type=1&theater

Sep 16, 2014, 3:39 pm

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Can someone help translate the times on the dinner menu? https://www.jal.co.jp/inter/lounge/pdf/first/food.pdf

5-10pm; 5-9pm; 10pm-

Are these locations? Are only certain items offered within each of the timeslots? Thanks.

Sep 16, 2014, 3:54 pm

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I'm not Japanese but I was able to make out the following

Narita Main Wing 3rd Floor
Breakfast: 0730-1100
Lunch: 1100-1700
Dinner: 1700-2200

Narita Main Wing 4th Floor
Breakfast: 0730-1230
Lunch and Dinner - No info (closed?)

Narita Satellite
Breakfast: 0730-1100
Lunch: 1100-1700
Dinner: 1700-1900

Haneda
Breakfast: 0430-1100 (Sky View: 0600-1200)
Lunch: 1100-2000
Dinner: 2200-Close (What happened to 2000-2200?) (Something about Skyview which I can't read)

H: Haneda only
N: Narita only
S: Narita satellite only
B: Breakfast only
D: Dinner only

Sep 16, 2014, 5:55 pm

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Haneda
Breakfast: 0430-1100 (Sky View: 0600-1200)
Lunch: 1100-2000
Dinner: 2200-Close (What happened to 2000-2200?) (Something about Skyview which I can't read)

The Skyview lounge isn't open during the afternoons and evenings -- only during the morning peak time of European departures.

I guess that during the slow period of 20:00-22:00 they only have the items listed on the last page.

Sep 16, 2014, 6:01 pm

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The note just says that the Skyview lounge is not open at that time.

Sep 16, 2014, 6:14 pm

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Expanded International Sakura Lounge at HND and Improved Int'l-Domestic Connections

Went to newly renovated HND F lounge last week. Appreciated Attentive staff, massage chair and Champagne (brand forgotten). Sky view lounge has F section with no barrier and no significant difference from C section. Better to visit proper F lounge.

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