rucksack

I'm looking at booking a trip to Asia and the only routing I can find with OP availability has me connecting in Tokyo, but into HND and out of NRT. A few questions:

1. If you're in J (specifically OP), does Delta provide complimentary transfer between the airports?
2. The connection is a hair under 4 hours; this strikes me as rather short for a connection that includes a change of airports. It's being sold as a single ticket so there's not any financial risk of missing the connection -- only the inconvenience. Any experience here transferring from HND to NRT and how much time one should allow for a connection?

flyerCO

4 hours is doable. I would take the train, but there's buses and limos. No Delta doesn't pay for the transfer unlike LGA/JFK where they do.

estedman

I have done it before. Take the train it is very easy and can be done in 2 1/2 hours with getting through immigration.

rucksack

@flyerCO @estedman thanks!

noah95

Are you saying that this can be done w/o having to deal with immigration? or were you saying one could get from HND to NRT in 2 1/2 hrs NOT including time in line with immigration?

estedman

I did it going through immigration at HND then going to NRT via train in roughly 2 and 1/2 hours.

CPMaverick

Take a longer connection if you can, and have a nice meal in Tokyo Plenty of luggage lockers in Tokyo train stations.

Zorak

FWIW the MCT in EF is 3.5 hours. I looked at a few of the recent Google results for "site:flyertalk.com connection hnd nrt" and the consensus seems to agree that 4 is sufficient and 3 is probably not advisable.

mnbp

Here's an excellent primer on transferring from HND to NRT:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/japan...er-thread.html

oaken

At some point a bright entrepreneur will establish a reliable service between the airports. Airport Express only goes certain hours and the trains can be a pain to deal with.

fairhsa

If it were me I would probably take the airport limousine bus. Changing trains in central Tokyo if you are not familiar with how it works is not easy. And it's not cheap at all.
https://www.limousinebus.co.jp/en/bu...da/narita.html

Insiderdude

Yup, MCT is 210 minutes - 3.5 hours. Having done it a few times, I'd definitely try to extend this time as it takes me an average of 3 hours via train plus the deplaning, walking, security, etc. Throw in some delay (either in the air or on the transfer) and your margin for time can be eaten up pretty quickly:

TYO ** EXCEPTIONS EXIST **
DD DI ID II
STANDARD HND 030 120 120 060
NRT 020 060 100 060
TERMINAL: NRT 1 TO 1 030 100 100 060
1 TO 2 050 110 110 090
1 TO 3 080 115 120 130
2 TO 1 050 110 110 090
2 TO 2 030 100 100 090
2 TO 3 080 115 120 130
3 TO 1 080 125 110 130
3 TO 2 080 115 100 130
3 TO 3 060 095 090 100
INTER-AIRPORT: HND TO NRT 210 210 210 210
NRT TO HND 210 210 210 210

securesmaskfirst

I am doing the same thing...well but from NRT to HND. I assume I will not have to transfer the checked bags..right? It is all one ticket.

flyerCO

Of course you have to transport the bags. How do you think they get between airports?

securesmaskfirst

A very long conveyor belt?