Midnight arrival flight at Haneda Airport

Haneda Airport operates 24 hours a day. Even after midnight, there are flights arriving at Terminal 3. However, it’s too late to take the last service of major public transportations by the time you come to the arrival lobby after going through the immigration and customs.

• Keikyu bound for Shinagawa leaves at 0:08
• Tokyo Monorail bound for Hamamatsu-cho leaves at 0:08
• Airport Limousine bound for Shinjuku and Ikebukuro leaves at 2:20
  • as of February, 2025　

In that case, you have the option of staying at The Royal Park Hotel Tokyo Haneda or Villa Fontaine Grand Haneda Airport, which are directly connected to Terminal 3. However, since many arriving passengers have other hotels or destinations, you will have to take a taxi waiting in line for vistors even late at night, or, as a last option, you will have to wait in the terminal until the first services of public transportations.

When I arrived at the curbside of Terminal 3 at around 1:00 a.m. in mid-February, unlike the daytime scene, there were few cars and people around, and the cold wind bit me. Around the entrance of the terminal building, a cold wind blew in every time the automatic doors opened. Going a little further in, I came to an area with benches, where many travelers were killing time in their own way.

When we went up to the arrival lobby on the second floor, the area around the arrival exit and the areas without benches were quiet, but the areas with benches were full, just like the first floor.

The only stores open are Lawson on the first floor and Tully’s Coffee on the second floor. There’s nowhere to go other than the benches.

Vietjet Air flight 820 arrived from Ho Chi Minh City just after 1:00 a.m., almost on time. We met up with the couple who had come to pick up their parents, who had come to Japan on this flight, in the arrival lobby just before 2:00 a.m. This couple also had a busy schedule, arriving at Narita Airport from Toronto in the afternoon of the previous day, checking in at Hotel Gracery Shinjuku, and picking up their parents at Haneda Airport. While we were delivering the wheelchair that had been rented for their mother and explaining how to use it and how to return it from Haneda Airport when they will leave Japan, the parents came out to the arrival lobby. We immediately had the mother sit in the wheelchair and guided her to into Wilgo cabin. Everyone was probably tired from the long journey, but there was lively conversation in the vehicle on the way to their hotel. We drove through the crowded back streets of Shinjuku Kabukicho, even though it was late at night, and arrived at Hotel Gracery Shinjuku just before 3:00 a.m. They said they would be enjoying their stay in Japan for about 10 days.

Wilgo offers a wheelchair rental service in addition to taxi services for airport transfers and sightseeing. In most cases, wheelchair users who come to Japan bring their own wheelchairs, but some use rental wheelchairs because they feel uneasy about walking long distances while sightseeing, or because they have unfortunately been injured during their stay in Japan. The rental wheelchair can be delivered to your hotel, or, as in this case, it can be handed over to you when we pick you up from the airport. In the latter case, the rental wheelchair delivery fee is free. Click here for more information about the rental service.

The parents came from Vietnam, and the couple came from Canada. There’s no doubt that the four of them will have a memorable stay in Japan.