Originally Posted by
hamburgler
The NEX conductors have a slick little PDA that they use to see what seats are reserved and which seats are not. Thus, they only approach folks that move from their assigned seat (once heading out to NRT the conductor went right up to the one seat on his map that wasn't assigned and collected the fare, then marked it as locked on his PDA).
Correct. The Narita Express conductor normally only checks passengers who are sitting in seats that are non-reserved. They will also ocassionally ask passengers who are standing near the restrooms for their tickets.
Even if one could evade the conductor with the OP's proposed scheme, you would still most likely encounter a problem when you try to leave the train station back at Narita. The ticket readers are electronic and I am not sure they have the "Platform ticket" exception in Narita which allows passengers to enter the platform area and then leave without boarding a train (like they do in many other stations).
I completely agree there is not enough time to take any train to Tokyo and back in the time frame the OP has mentioned. Better to ship it.
I do have another question. If the OP is ticketed to HKG, how are you planning to get 2 computers offloaded at NRT? Assuming these are not laptops since you mentioned they are heavy, I assume you will have to check them. Or are you hoping to carry these 2 computers on board with you?
