How to Travel from Narita Airport to Tokyo City

As for the transportation from Narita Airport to Tokyo downtown, the urban rail trains is the most popular way, while public bus and taxi are also available to reach the city center.

Tokyo Airport Trains

This is the most popular means of transportation from Narita Airport to downtown Tokyo. There are multiple choices of Tokyo airport trains to different destinations, operated by JR East and Keisei Electric Railway respectively. Narita Express (N’EX) of JR and Skyliner of Keisei are quite faster than other ordinary trains. Here are the alternative routes to go to some spots in the city of Tokyo.

To Shinjuku:

	Travelling Time	Fare
Narita Express	1.5 hours	JPY 3,250 (JPY 4,020 for the green class)
Skyliner + JR Yamanote Line (transfer at Nippori)	1.5 hours	JPY 2,790
Other JR lines (transfer at Chiba & Tokyo Station)	2 hours	JPY 1,520
Keisei Access Express + Toei metro Asakusa Line + Toei Shinjuku Line (transfer at Oshiage & Higashi-Nihonbashi/Bakuro-yokoyama)	1.5 hours	JPY 1,470
Keisei Main Line + JR Yamanote Line (transfer at Nippori)	1h 40min	JPY 1,270
Keisei Main Line + Toei Shinjuku Line (transfer at Keisei Yawata/Moto-Yawata)	1h 50min	JPY 1,260

To Shibuya:

	Travelling Time	Fare
Narita Express	1h 20min	JPY 3,250
Keisei Access Express + Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line (transfer at Oshiage)	1h 34min	JPY 1,460
Keisei Main Line + Keisei Oshiage Line + Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line (transfer at Aoto & Oshiage)	1h 50min	JPY 1,260

To Asakusa:

	Travelling Time	Fare
Skyliner + Keisei Oshiage Line + Toei Asakusa Line (transfer at Aoto & Oshiage)	57min	JPY 2,430
Keisei Access Express + Toei Asakusa Line (transfer at Oshiage)	59min	JPY 1,380
Skyliner + Tokyo Metro Ginza Line (transfer at Keisei Ueno, walk to Ueno station)	1h 3min	JPY 2,760
Keisei Main Line + Keisei Oshiage Line + Toei Asakusa Line (transfer at Aoto & Oshiage)	1h 20min	JPY 1,180

The ordinary car (standard class) and green car/class of N’EX can be selected, while the green class and reserved seats are more expensive somewhat.
There are up to 3 Skyliner trains an hour at most for your convenience, with reserved seats only.

Ticketing Site:

JR East Travel Service Center, B1F, T1 or T2

Skyliner & Keisei Information Center, B1F, T1 or T2
The entrance to the rail station is also on the underground floor.

JR East Service Center

Keisei Skyliner Counter

Airport Bus to Tokyo City

Limousine is perhaps the best-known and typical buses at Narita Airport, even though there are also buses operated by other companies like Keisei Bus, Narita Kuko Kotsu and Chiba Kotsu. These buses go to different destinations in Tokyo city, like the traffic hubs, attractions, and hotels. At the counters of the bus operator, you can get the bus ticket, confirm the timetable, boarding bus stop and more information.

For Limousine bus, a bus departs from Narita Airport every 10-30 minutes. Overall, there are 3-6 buses going to Shinjuku and 2-3 buses to Ginza per hour. The bus fare of Limousine is about JPY 3,200 averagely to the most places around Tokyo city.

Low-cost bus (LCB) is usually cheaper, at an average fare of JPY 1,000 for a single trip, making it a cost-effective way to go from Narita Airport to Tokyo. Nevertheless, you can’t carry big baggage probably when getting on a LCB.

Bus counters:

South Wing & North Wing, 1F, Arrival, T1

1F, T2 Center

1F, T3 Center

Tokyo Airport Taxi to/from Narita Airport

At Narita Airport, you can catch a taxi after queueing for it. Of course, if there is very few people, you can get a taxi extremely fast. At the taxi stand, you may decide to take the ordinary taxi charged by the distance you travel or the taxi at a fixed fare. The fixed-fare taxi goes through the expressway; if you want to travel via a route with no expressway, only the ordinary taxi can be selected.

Even without the additional late night surcharge and expressway toll, the basic taxi fare is also pretty expensive. Moreover, there is no guarantee to reach the destination in the scheduled time for traffic jams or dissatisfactory road condition. If there is a delay on the way, the fare would be increased as well.

Destinations	Haneda Airport	Odaiba	Shinagawa Higashi-yashio	Asakusa	Shibuya	Shinjuku
Ordinary taxi	JPY 39,800	JPY 33,000	JPY 35,200	JPY 28,900	JPY 35,100	JPY 33,700
Flat-rate taxi	JPY 30,000	JPY 26,000-29,000	JPY 26,000	JPY 27,000-29,000	JPY 29,000 / 30,000	JPY 29,000 / 30,000

The fare for ordinary taxies is estimated approximately, and expressway toll as well as more surcharges are not included especially for the flat-rate taxies.

Taxi stands:

T1: No.15 stop, South Wing, 1F

T2: No. 30 & No.31-A stops, 1F

T3: the wheelchair accessible boarding area near No.21 stop, opposite to No.6 stop across the road through the pedestrian overpass