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There are two SCs, both with showers and beer machines. There's also a very bad KE lounge. Unfortunately the AF lounge is gone. I don't know how the area looks now, but there had been a Virgin lounge under construction next door to the KE lounge and a large open area in front with some interesting furniture for relaxing and some artwork.

IMO NRT is efficient and pleasant enough, very clean, but not charming and lacks any special features to make it unique. The shops and food outlets near the DL gates are very limited and generally not interesting, although it can be fun to look at some of the food offerings. [Taking food home tends to cause delays and/or trouble with customs, so look but don't buy.] Around the DL gates, you can find bad souvenirs, low quality Japanese "silk" clothing and accessories, sudoko books and Japanese comic books, a limited selection of English language periodicals (generally expensive for what it is), and some cute cheap little electronic toys such as mini robots for entertainment, such as little dog-like things.

If you walk toward the UA and other *A gates, at about the halfway point, where originating passengers emerge from security, there is a small collection of elegant expensive duty-free stores. Window shopping here can be fun for a very brief period of time. Usually there are multi-lingual young models passing out free samples of alcohol or perfume here.

If you walk farther to the *A gates, you're likely to see some interesting aircraft, such as SQ, TK, NZ, TK, LH, LX, etc., including A380s and 787s. It's a long walk buy mildly amusing if you want some exercise or have time to kill. Note also the entrance to the ANA Suites lounge; it's nice. There's also a large UA lounge with a FC section upstairs; somehow the interior reminds me of the old Oasis at JFK T4, now reincarnated as the wingtips lounge there, but what you can see is nothing at all special and in fact the lounge seems tired and dated.