Arriving in JAPAN. How to Travel from Narita Airport to City Centre, Tokyo.
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- How easy is travelling in Tokyo after arriving at the airport in Japan as a tourist? I am arriving at Narita Airport in Tokyo during summer 2024. It always feels a little stressful when I arrive in a different country. I’ve travelled a lot, visited almost 50 countries, mainly in Europe and Asia. It doesn’t feel that much of a culture shock when I arrive in a new Asian country nowadays. It’s just that initial confusion of immediately needing cash and having to withdraw money from the ATM hoping that my card will be accepted. Well, I have a number of cards now. You need a few backups as one of the might not work or be blocked. A couple of my bank cards only work with a bank app, so need wifi to use them.
Most airports nowadays have free wifi you can use on arrival. You can also buy a sim for that country at the airport, although generally sims are more expensive at airports and you don’t always get the best deal. So I try and purchase a sim in a city store the following day, as long as I’m able to navigate my way to my hotel without needing the internet. I mean c’mon we managed 20 years ago easily enough, so why not now?
On my first trip in 2007, Chiho my Japanese flatmate who I’d lived with in London softened my arrival in Japan by meeting me at the airport with her father and took me back to their house just outside Tokyo.
But this time on my arrival I need to find my own way into Tokyo CITY.
I’m staying at a hotel in Nippori for one night. Then the following day I’m moving into an apartment that I’ve booked online for a month. I chose the hotel in Nippori as it’s close to the Tokyo station which the train from the airport goes directly to and also close to Shinjuku where I need to go the following day to the Sakura House agency who’re renting out the apartment.
So I’ve made screenshots of the train lines I need to use to take me to Nippori station and also of the route to my hotel in Nippori which I’d booked for a night on Agoda.
I’ve always had an interest in Japan. In my late teens and twenties I was really into music, listening to punk, new wave and mod bands. Popular subcultures were a big thing in the 70’s and 80s and I dressed accordingly, kept in touch with my favourite groups and musicians by reading the New Musical Express and Sounds weekly music newspapers, plus The Face AND SMASH HITS magazines. Fashion styles were constantly changing.
Groups were now creating music videos which were showcased on the the MTV channel. The Face magazine would publish a lot of Japanese influences. David Bowie, my idol was big in Japan. One of my favourite new wave groups were called Japan. Be Bop Deluxe another one of my favourite groups also had a song called er you guessed it……. Japan.
So Japan was very much on my radar. But also very out of my reach as it was considered a very expensive country to visit. Unlike India which was the first south-east Asian country I visited in 1987. So I bought The Lonely Planet guide to Japan which I placed on my bookshelf and left it there gathering dust for 2 decades.
In 2007 I was living in London. I’d been working in a library for 6 years. Both my parents had recently died and I came into some inheritance. Over the past 30 years the yen has fluctuated between 120 - 260 yen to the British pound. During summer 2007 it was hovering around 240. The highest it had been against the £ for almost 10 years. So this was the time for me to go and I made plans to stop work, give up my flat and travel to Japan for the first time. I arrived on New Year’s Eve, not realising just how cold Tokyo gets during winter. I hate the cold, so this was a bit of a schoolboy error on my part.
But I rented an apartment and stayed in Tokyo for 5 months at the start of 2008 before travelling to other neighbouring Asian countries. Over the years I’ve yearned to return to experience Japan during the summer. But I can’t believe It’s taken me 16 years to go back there. Having gone to the Beijing Olympics in China in 2008, I proposed that I’d return to Japan in 2020 to coincide with the Tokyo Olympics. But covid scuppered those plans. The Olympics was put back a year to 2021, but sadly no spectators were allowed.
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The nurse was cute, I hope you got her contact information.
The mass transit system looks intimidating. If it was me I might be lost there for years.
When you have no return ticket, who cares? Get lost all day.
Love the Asian 7/11 convenience food culture. I do remember alot of Chinese influence in the food in Tokyo. Surprised you went to Japan. Look forward to your videos from there!
Japan is a great country.
The food is so very good. The Ramen soup soylu miso ramen with thin slices of roasted pork and the large bowls for around $5 oe $6.
Their versions of a hamburger is awesome.
The public transportation was very good and not too expensive.
Going to an underground shopping mall was cool. So many sweet woman attending you.. .
The lodging was sorta expensive. But found if you go to a Love hotel after 10pm. The rate till morning was alright..
Lodging costs was the big money issue.
I really liked the the people...
I hope your travels there is very good...
This is Japan, Jack Green
The last shot looks as if you are being admitted to the Psych ward.
Have fun in Japan Philip! Your nurse friend was cute!
Thank you for the transportation information, it was very helpful.
When traveling to the Philippines
I stop in Tokyo to sight see
Amazing city
Have fun
The museums and parks are very nice
Wishing you health and prosperity big mate always big fan of your content
Nice change of pace to go to Japan. It’s so different.
I love the Japan content! I'll miss your interactions with the trike drivers though haha
I saw Be Bop Delue back in the 70's in San Francisco. Live In The Air Age... 🎸
Nice surprise, and change of scenery.
Hardly any eye contact from people in public. The Japanese seem to be quite reserved. I look forward to seeing more. Thanks for capturing your travels.
Enjoy your time Phillip. Back in 1980 I had the first album of the band "Japan". That's quite a score for a country boy stuck in the middle of Missouri US. I liked it quite a lot. I hope the organized urban feel of Japan will sooth the city boy angst you felt so often in PH. For me, I've already seen enough to say no thanks. I choose the Filipino people and beaches. Happy trails. Peace and Love, B Goat
I was there in early 90's. You had to pay per channel on the room tv and had to pay an exit fee at the airport in cash, which you took out of a hard to find ATM at the other side of the terminal. I will never go there again.
Looks like a nice change from Phils. Hope you find a rich Japanese sugar mama.
Starter was sea weed, okra and dried skipjack tuna shavings.
I saw you using Google translate in real life situations. I found that particularly interesting .
They have a great public transportation system. Enjoy your time there. Food is inexpensive and delicious. Japan is much different than the P.I. Cheers!😊
You should have tried to fly into Haneda, much closer to the city centre. I saw you walked past Torikozoku, should go there, many 199-299 yen items on the menu. The 300 yen fee in some of those places is basically in replacement of a tip, but that's also why you get the free appetizer at the start of the meal. This should be a good series!
Would have, should have, could have.
Nice change after the PH. Very civilised. Hot in summer though.
Thought you'd been to Japan before? That's table charge and is everywhere in Japan.... it's standard but they should give you a light bite at the beginning.
Don't want to hog your comment section
Two years ago stayed in Roppongi, amazing cemetery their.
Are you reading this?
No.
Great choice!
Thanks!
It is to complicated to travel for an elderly man today, we are not updated...
"too" complicated
Japan, wow! I really want to visit there. It seems like another planet. I would love to be there without a limit on my time. I hope you visit some cool places, not just pace up and down the boardwalk. Does Tokyo have a boardwalk or boulevard?
When I travel internationally I just use an eSIM vendor like Airolo. You just purchase before taking off and it just works. The translate apps thrill me and remind us that we really are living in an age of incredible technology.
Japan I guess India , enjoy
looks extremely complicated if you can’t read Japanese
I would have probably taken a taxi and taken the financial hit 🤷♀️
Tokyo sucks. Osaka is better IMO
Why do you prefer Osaka?
NOO! Keep Japan a secret. Way too many foreigners around nowadays already! Had a great time when I had it all to myself during covid :)
That is just about the worst advert imaginable to entice anyone to visit Japan
Why? Kind of makes me want to go. I thought I would have to pay more than that for a hotel which has kept me away. Sounds cheaper than Singapore.
@@samiam8114well, just about anywhere in the world is cheaper than Singapore. 😂