You can ask them to check to Haneda, or you can check all the way through to Chicago. For the latter, you need to go to the counter for international connections.

You don't mention the exact airline(s) and number of tickets, but generally, you should get your boarding passes in Fukuoka if you check through, and you can go straight to security the next morning.

Thank you!
Flying Japan Airlines

Departing NRT T1 early evening. Will arrive the night before. Hilton (Gold) or Crowne Plaza (Platinum)? Price for the base room is about the same, including breakfast. Any recommendations? TIA!

Hi,

If arriving the night before and leaving in the early evening , why not stay in tokyo itself and get an afternoon bus/narita express train to the airport? ( unless arriving too late for transport)
That said, looks like the crown plaza is a little closer ( few minutes difference) to Narita
I think the Hilton Narita gets reasonable reviews ( and a a HH gold you would get a free breakfast buffet if booking directly with Hilton so no need to pay extra for breakfast))
No personal experience with the hotels yet ( possibly spending 3 nights at the Hilton Narita in May)

Regards

TBS

+1

At the Hilton and Crown you are isolated in a castle on the highways around the airport. AFAICT there isn't much to choose between them.

With the best part of a day to kill, I'd prefer to be in Tokyo or Narita City, where I can wander around and visit a temple or a shopping street. YMMV

The Hilton tends to be very inexpensive compared to other chain properties around Tokyo, and the rooms are quite nice. If you have status and qualify for free breakfast, I’d say it’s a solid choice especially if you are arriving late in the evening. There is not much to do on site or nearby, so you would probably want to check out and take the hotel shuttle into downtown Narita after breakfast, wander around and have lunch, then go from there directly to the airport by train.

Thank you for the input. In this case, I'm a bit behind with a project for my VFD and need to spend some time to get it completed so that I enjoy the remainder of my 30 day trip. :) I'm hoping for a 1/2 day to go into Narita itself though.

I'll be doing exactly what you suggest when I return to NRT mid-February prior to my NRT SPN GUM ROR MNL run!

In any case, based on the other comments, Hilton it is!

Unless we're able to change our tickets between now and June for a later next day connection, it looks like this will be our first overnight at NRT with an a morning departure the next day. After 20+ years, we've never stayed in Narita. Given the 9AM departure the next morning and the desire to be in the JAL Sakura Lounge for breakfast before departure, we will likely choose a nearby hotel with a shuttle bus, but we want to be able to find a good place for dinner, specifically sushi the evening after arrival.

Do the western airport hotels offer a shuttle to the train, or do we need to take the shuttle to the hotel, check-in, then take it back to the airport to get the JR train over to Narita city? I don't think we want to spend the time and money to take the train all the way into Tokyo for dinner, so ideally there is a location of Sushi No Midori in or near Narita accessible from the JR train, or something similar - and very local, not a restaurant that caters to tourists.

I would probably opt to stay in a local hotel in Narita city itself, but among the Western hotels, Hilton Narita offers shuttle connections to JR Narita station in Narita City and to Terminals 1 and 2. You should probably call the hotel to verify current status of the timetable.
https://www.hiltonnarita.jp/pdf/acce...irport_tmp.pdf

As for Sushi restaurants that don't cater to tourists... I wasn't sure what that might mean until I saw this photo from Sushi Yamato. Don't think I've seen that in Japan before:
https://tblg.k-img.com/restaurant/im...23/2223395.jpg

Highest rated on Tabelog, with 3.45 stars is Narita Edokko Sushi on Omotesando - about five minutes walk from JR Narita station. Tatsu Sushi in the terminal gets almost the same rating. I recently ate at the T3 branch .... It was OK. I forgot to ask if they got their tuna from Tokyo or from the Choshi fish market, on the coast to the east of Narita.

FWIW, the highest rated restaurant on Tabelog is an Unagi place - Surugaya
https://www.surugaya-unagi.net/

I took JAL 9 a.m. departure from NRT before. I had the same thought about grabbing breakfast at the Sakura Lounge before the flight. JAL check-in counter at NRT Terminal 2 does not open till 7 a.m. and I was not the only person with the thought of grabbing breakfast at the Sakura Lounge. The Sakura Lounge that early in the morning was a lot busier than I thought. I did not feel as I had to rush through check-in and the Sakura Lounge, but I remember it was a lot less leisure pace than I thought trying to grab breakfast at the Sakura Lounge before the flight. This was back when NRT had two Sakura Lounge location, one at the Main Building of Terminal 2 and the Satellite Building of Terminal 2.

We would check-in online (if we don't get connecting boarding passes at our origin point) and use our business class priority to go through security quickly, and get to the lounge - we just need about 30 minutes in the lounge for breakfast and get to the gate by 830AM for boarding. So I'm guessing that means being in the terminal by 730AM.

I am really hoping JAL will release more award space to AS on either a later-in-the-day Narita or Haneda flight to TPE, I am not a fan of these early morning flights from anywhere.

Hi. If I bought tickets with the connection in HND (FUK-HND-US), and layover is almost 24 hours.
Is there an option to pick-up our checked luggage in Haneda and then check it back in to US flight the next day?

Yes, just go to the regular domestic counter rather than the counter for international connections, and if they ask just tell them that you would like to reclaim luggage in Tokyo rather than check through.

Thank you! And in Haneda on the next day there is a regular check-in process (I don't believe there is bag drop-off)?

You would need to go and check in as if you were originating basically.