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Old Feb 28, 2015 | 9:32 am
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Originally Posted by BuildingMyBento
GMP is one of my favorites. Convenient - to both Seoul and ICN, good pre-security food court and has a nostalgic feel to it.
I didn't get there early enough to stop at a food court, security was really backed up (though it moved pretty quickly), I don't know that I even really saw it. But I went from the lower level check-in immediately to the security line on the upper level.

I will say GMP looked better departing than arriving, the customs hall was really what stuck out to me as old/out dated. I did love the location though, easy to get to and easy to find your way into the city, though ICN looks about the same, just farther.

Originally Posted by grumbler
HND is an excellent airport, and not just because of proximity to Central Tokyo. Contrary to what a previous poster has suggested, the retail there is actually of a higher quality than NRT (if you are able to rip yourself away from Hermes scarves) and food offerings are superior. I also like the fact that the security and immigration formalities (at least on outbound - inbound immigration can be a bit of a pain) are reasonably efficient. The only downside is that onward connections ex-Japan are not as varied as through NRT, though domestic connections are much better. Plus, who doesn't love monorails ?

GMP is still a bit of a work in progress, unfortunately, but overall trip time to cities on HND-GMP routing is at least 2 hours time saved as opposed to NRT-ICN.
Wait wait...NRT has a monorail!? Gotta make sure I visit NRT at some point. I have to say both inbound and outbound immigration were incredibly fast at HND. Maybe my times were conducive to this, but I hardly waited at all in either direction. The only thing that slowed me down outbound was a group of tourists from East-Timor (or Timor-Leste, not sure which is official) were going through security and clearly hadn't done this many times, they all got stopped for metal or prohibited foods and such.
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