Indeed, Yokota's remoteness and lack of adequate transportation links might even make travelers nostalgic for Narita.
In November, the police discovered a mummified corpse in a hotel near Narita, Tokyo's airport.
Tokyo's Narita Airport is updating its website about the status of arriving and departing flights.
"They're still in a learning phase, " said Yasuhiro Narita, a trading house analyst at Nomura Securities Co.
Solution: Narita City, a short ride away and a microcosm of a bygone Land of the Rising Sun.
Others have to land at Narita, clear customs and then fly to Haneda.
Paul, New York-LaGuardia, New York-JFK, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Salt Lake City and Tokyo-Narita.
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Jetstar and Air Asia are using Narita airport as their hub, which is expensive and time-consuming to get to from Tokyo.
Some 13, 000 people were stranded at the Narita airport, and 10, 000 were stuck at the Haneda airport, the news agency said.
The company plans to begin domestic flights using the 787 in May and possibly launch the Denver-Narita (Japan) route on June 10.
Fortunately the town of Narita is under 10 minutes away by train.
American lawyer Heather Reilly Powell had just checked in for her flight at Tokyo Narita International Airport when the magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck.
The flight time to Hong Kong is four-and-a-half hours, and it takes almost that long to get to Narita airport from my home in Tokyo.
Its launch of Denver-to-Tokyo Narita flights is still planned for June 10, but that will depend on installing the battery fix by then, she said.
Tourist information counters at the airport or in Narita City have maps and other info in English, and in town many shops have English signage.
Teams of Japanese inspectors fly into Port Lincoln to examine each harvest before it's flown off to Narita and trucked to the giant predawn Tsukiji Fish Market.
More than 20 years after Narita opened, diehard farmers refuse to sell their tiny parcels of land, strategically sited across the proposed path for a second runway.
After landing in Narita, I took a shuttle bus straight to Shibuya where I knew I'd find the epicenter of all that defined what I thought I would find.
But Haneda is located just 14km south of city with taxi fares in the 7, 000 to 9, 000 yen range, vs 20, 000 to 25, 000 yen from Narita, located 60km away.
Japan alone scored four airports in the top 20 (Tokyo Haneda, Central Japan, Tokyo Narita, and Kansai), China scored three ( Hong Kong International, Beijing Capital, and Shanghai Hongqiao).
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Minutes after the Boeing 787 aircraft landed at Boston's Logan International Airport from Tokyo's Narita, cleaning staff discovered smoke near a kitchen at the back of the plane, the report said.
Take the Narita Express train just one stop (about a 10-minute ride) to the city of Narita, where a trail of local shops and restaurants line the path to the Naritasan Shinshoji Temple.
"It was good that she could be brought back but I have no words to describe the fact that she has to be brought back in this state, " he told journalists at Narita airport, east of Tokyo.
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More importantly, locals hope that Nagoya's new international airport will ease foreigners' access (tourist magnets such as Kyoto, Nara and Kanazawa are fairly easy to reach from Nagoya), without having to pass twice through Tokyo and its Narita airport.
Hitachi has earned enough trust to get trial installations at Narita International Airport and a Tokyo subway station this coming spring, but we have a hunch that some airport officials would demand a more thorough screening, no matter how much it's actually needed.
Future American CEO Doug Parker, also speaking at the JP Morgan conference, acknowledged Monday that the carrier will not have as many routes to Asia as either Delta or United, which benefit from having acquired the Tokyo Narita hubs established by merger partner Northwest and defunct Pan American World Airways.
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