Walking between NRT T2 & T3
 

Hello everyone!

After a few weeks of Googling and still unable to get a clear answer, I have decided to talk to the experts.

I am spending a few days in Tokyo and moving on. My outbound is a low cost carrier departing at Terminal 3. I would like to use my Priority Pass in Terminal 2. Can I walk airside between Terminals 2 and 3?

All my search results show a running track-like path but it's land-side, and nothing definitive about airside walking transfers.

Thanks for all the help, and hopefully, anybody needing this info in the future will have this page as a search result.

There is a shuttle bus between T2 and T3, but it's doubtful you'll be allowed into T2 with a boarding pass for a T3 departure, lounge or not. You'll need to enter the airport at T3, clear security/immigration there, then ask at the shuttle bus stop if they can take you to T2 so you can use the lounge. They may refuse.

Is that capsule hotel at Narita not within the airport but like in the parking lot area? They require boarding pass for priority pass. Interesting

There is an airside bus between the T3 and T2, but it only runs very limited times of the day. So it might not even be a practical option. But I also doubt that they would allow the transfer without a boarding pass for T2.

It is within the airport area, but indeed in the parking structure, but it is only a brief walk from the passenger terminal.

Thanks, bocastephen and CPH-Flyer for the replies. Today, I learned that there is an airside bus shuttle in NRT T2 and T3. I am trying to understand how I can be refused to take a shuttle from T3 to T2 after I have cleared at T3. Will they check the BPs of all riders? Is this shuttle service not a loop? All airports are different, and I want to understand how NRT operates.

The two Priority Pass lounges operated by IASS at T2 don't really seem to be worth the effort. Although I still like peeking inside lounges when i can.

Japan is very by-the-book in terms of rules and often anything that isn't explicitly allowed, can be denied, even if the request is reasonable. So, my assumption is the request will be denied because you are departing from T3 and hold a boarding pass for T3, and there is no logical reason for you to go to T2 - and visiting the lounge will probably not be a logical reason in the mind of the attendant at the bus stop.

It's still worth a shot if you can explain it well enough to the bus stop attendant - but if you're denied, don't be surprised.

Looking at the PP app, the IASS Executive Lounge seems to be land side, where as the IASS Superior Lounge is airside. So just use the landside lounge and save some of the trouble.

It is easy to manage the transfer restrictions, just ask to see the boarding pass. Heathrow stopped allowing inter terminal transfers without a boarding pass for the relevant terminal. I guess too many people getting caught by the transfer time needed and missing flights.

Thanks for all the insights. My resolution/plan is this:

I will access the landside IASS lounge.
After, and if allowed, I will clear through T2 to access the airside IASS lounge at T2. Then I will try to use the airside shuttle bus to get to T3.

I will report back later and post here the results. Hopefully, the plan works. I will also post how that shuttle bus works. Until then!

If you are let in to T2, the bus is quite simple, from gate 70.

It has been expanded in the hours since last I looked. But only afternoon and evening

https://www.narita-airport.jp/files/...25d2fd0db71214

Presumably your T3 departure is international otherwise this is a non-starter. Frustratingly T2 and T3 international are connected (same building) but walled off, so it is not walkable. Immediately after COVID, T3 arrivals were sent into T2 to pass through immigration but that has obviously since stopped.

Anyway I digress. It is exceptionally unlikely you will be able to do this. I do not believe the T2 boarding pass scanners at security will accept a T3 boarding pass to let you airside in any event, and it's likely the agents will be helpfully trying to redirect you elsewhere.

Also a fellow avid Priority Pass user, the Narita options are dire. The T2 landside lounge is dreadful, it's more of a waiting room. The airside one is nominally better, especially after they opened the extension, but I still wouldn't go out of my way to visit it. Get something in the T3 food court and chill instead.

Safe travels and do let us know how you get on if you choose to try.

The landside lounge at NRT really sucks. It's like a hospital waiting room, and the only free alcohol you get is one measly can of beer.