{"id":6981,"date":"2010-06-02T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2016-12-16T13:45:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T19:45:26","slug":"back-to-the-future-for-travel-to-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/back-to-the-future-for-travel-to-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the future for travel to Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Joe Brancatelli<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Business travelers headed to Tokyo<\/strong> have spent the last generation flying to the distant, charmless Narita Airport<\/strong>. Closer-in (albeit equally charmless), Haneda Airport<\/strong> has beenoff-limits to virtually all international flights since 1978. But thanks to a recent open-skies agreement between the United States and Japan<\/a>, Haneda will again be open for intercontinental flights beginning late\u00a0in the fall.<\/p>\n

After a brief period of consultation and petitioning, the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded Haneda flights to American Airlines<\/a>, Delta Airlines<\/a> and Hawaiian Airlines<\/a>. American will get to launch a daily New York\/Kennedy-Haneda flight<\/strong>, Delta gets daily flights from Los Angeles<\/strong> and its Detroit<\/strong> hub and Hawaiian Airlines will be permitted to launch daily service from Honolulu <\/strong>to Haneda. And that’s not all: Bankrupt Japan Airlines<\/strong> will move its San Francisco flights<\/strong> to Haneda from Narita and launch its own Honolulu-Haneda service.<\/p>\n

For those familiar with Tokyo’s extensive rail network, Haneda is accessible via the Keikyu Airport Line<\/strong>. The travel time to Tokyo Station<\/strong> is about 30 minutes. Extensive bus service is also available; the travel time to central Tokyo hotels<\/a> is about 50 minutes.<\/p>\n

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