Take Out Sushi Narita Airport

寿司持ち帰り 成田空港

Take-out sushi is not the most common way of eating sushi. At its most casual, sushi usually means dropping in to a kaiten-zushi restaurant, where plates of pre-prepared sushi go past you on a conveyor belt.

At its most elegant, sushi involves taking a reserved seat at a three-star Michelin establishment that seats less than a dozen guests, and leaving it up to the sushi master to serve you what he sees fit.

But at Narita Airport you can enjoy the rare experience of ordering your sushi as you would at a hamburger drive-thru, but, of course, on foot.

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Narita Airport Zoo

成田空港動物園

A zoo at Narita Airport? Well, the closest you'll come to one is after you exit immigration (if you're on your way out of Japan). Just a few paces to your left, on the left hand side of the corridor, you will see a crocodile, a bit of a python, and some beautiful birdwing butterflies - unfortunately all dead as dodos.

The glass case that encloses the miniature stuffed alligator, the python skin biwa (traditional stringed musical instrument) and the once-gay pair of birdwing butterflies, is a display of prohibited imports and exports.

Japan's neighbor, China, is a growing market for rare and exotic specimens, and, much like China, Japan, too, has numerous cultural artifacts that traditionally use now endangered species in their manufacture.

Presumably these specimens and artifacts on display were among those impounded by Japanese Customs officers. Fate has decreed that these unfortunates should find a little fame and ongoing utility as a warning to all who would hunt and kill their dwindling kind.

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Green Tea Kit-Kat at Narita Airport

宇治抹茶キットキャット

Narita Airport is not the most modern of airports anymore, but it lacks little in the way of conveniences for the international traveler.

Seen at a Narita Airport drug store-cum-souvenir shop was this stand of Uji Maccha Kit-Kats. Maccha is a rich, thick form of green tea with the strongest flavor of any variety. And Uji is Japan's green tea capital: a town near Kyoto that has been supplying the old capital with tea for hundreds of years.

This "Japan Exclusive," as it was labeled, is aimed at those who want something quintessentially Japanese as a twist on top of that familiar chocolatey sweetness.

They were giving out samples, and, sure enough, a vague hint of traditional Japan somehow made it through the sugary, biscuity crunch.

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Haneda Airport v Narita Airport

東京の空港

Fierce competition has broken out between the two airports serving the Tokyo metropolitan area: Haneda Airport and Narita Airport.

For a long time Narita, further out to the west of Tokyo in Chiba Prefecture was considered Tokyo's main international airport, while Haneda (Tokyo Interntional Airport), much closer to central Tokyo in Tokyo Bay, was predominately a domestic hub.

Now things are changing. Haneda has opened a new 5-storey, 24-hour terminal extension and increased the number of its international and low cost flights to Asia and America with both scheduled and budget carriers to and from Tokyo.

Haneda now serves many international destinations with flights from JAL, ANA, Thai Airways, Eva Airways, Malaysian Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Delta, Hawaiian Airlines and American Airlines from its 4-runway airport.
Hanada can be accessed in as little as 13 minutes on Keihin Electric Express trains and Tokyo Monorail fm downtown Tokyo.

JTB travel agency is offering package tours to 22 overseas destinations from Haneda between October to January with connecting flights to Haneda costing only 1,000 yen per round trip.



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The Keisei Sky Access

スカイライナー

The Keisei Sky Access service began running on Saturday between Ueno Station and Nippori Station in Tokyo and Narita International Airport.

The new Skyliner trains run at a top speed of 160kph on the 51.4km route and completes the journey in just 36 minutes.

The train stops at both Narita Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 stations. The first service from Nippori is 6.35am with the last Skyliner at 5.50pm. Trains begin the journey 5 minutes before at Ueno Station.
Keisei Main Line trains run until 10.06pm from Nippori Station.

The present fare from Nippori to Narita is 2,400 yen. The new service is a direct competitor of JR's Narita Express from Tokyo Station.

Keisei's Access Limited Express connects Narita and Haneda Airports via the Toei Asakusa Line with the journey taking 1 hour and 40 minutes.

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