Haneda Airport

We had a long layover in Tokyo.

We had planned to exit immigration and head into the Ginza for lunch, look around a bit and return to have a shower at the lounge before our 7:30pm flight.

Haneda had other thoughts about that. There were over 1000 people in the immigration hall and the que stretched back into the walkway between gates. After a quick assessment of the lines we decided to spend the day airside and went back through security and on to the Sakura Lounge.

The Sakura lounge is pretty busy as it services about 5 flights out of Haneda in the morning. Food options are not the best so we headed to the Cathay Lounge which we had almost to ourselves. 10am being the only Cathay departure until 4pm.

Having had an issue securing a shower last year we went back to the Sakura lounge early and booked our spots, had our showers and prepared for the overnight flight to Sydney.Read more