Originally Posted by
TravelDream
Just a quick update from my trip.
Landed at 4pm last week (mid-week). The queue at immigration was a touch over 30 minutes for foreigners. The Japanese line was over twice as long as the foreigner one, but I don't know how long they had to queue for.
Our bags were waiting when we got to the baggage hall, but there was a fifteen minute queue at customs, which surprised me as everyone (Japanese and foreigner) was stopped and questioned.
The JR office also had a twenty minute queue.
So, overall it took over 90 minutes from getting to the gate to leaving the airport. A longest ever record for me. But Japan is totally worth it, trust me!
Just to confirm, this does indeed refer to NRT Terminal 2. I think I was fairly lucky at customs. The agent in my line didn't stop anyone for too long. In other lines when they stopped someone to search bags, the queue would just stop. I can easily see it being thirty minutes long.
I didn't see a Japan resident line, but the Japan citizen line was at least twice as long as the foreigner line. IDK how long they had to wait for though.