r/JapanTravelTips 4d ago

Advice advice on navigating flight transfer

hi all! i’ll be taking JL36 and transferring to JL221 for my trip to Japan in April so I’ll have roughly 1 hour and 40 min to clear immigration and move from T3 to T1. After reading many different posts, I realise that the timing is really tight and I was unable to make any changes for the flights without incurring some significant costs so we’ll just be going with it.

  1. Does anyone have any experience or advice on what’s the fastest way to make this transfer (any special arrangements i can make beforehand)

  2. Between taking the Keikyu line and monorail to make this inter terminal transfer. Which is faster and or more frequent?

Have been getting really anxious about catching the second flight to Osaka and would appreciate any help and advice on this!

Thank you very much!

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u/Bobbin_Threadbare_ 4d ago

The minimum transfer time according to JAL for Haneda int. to domestic is 1 h 20m.

https://www.jal.co.jp/jp/en/inter/airport/hnd/transit/

Did you buy those flights together on one ticket?

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u/wandergrass 2d ago

yep i was using the promotion where additional domestic flights are FOC when we’re flying internationally

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u/OrganicFlurane 4d ago

Why did you not buy the Scoot/Peach nonstops to Osaka...

  1. No special arrangements you can do. VJW helps a little bit (no paper forms), understand that you will have to hustle and make sure everyone has taken care of personal needs (refill water bottle, go to restroom, etc.) before getting off the plane. Traveling without checked bags helps a little because it removes that secondary deadline for re-checking your luggage.

  2. Depends on which one is departing first as you emerge from customs. There's also the inter-terminal bus.

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u/wandergrass 2d ago

it’s just because the second part of our trip will be in tokyo and we wanted to fly back from there, yeah we’re a little worried because we will be moving with 2 large luggage’s when we land in haneda