Haneda Airport to Shinjuku and Central Tokyo by Train and Bus (2026)
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Haneda is close to the city. From the international terminal you can be on the platform at Shinagawa in 11 minutes, and almost nowhere in central Tokyo is more than 40 minutes away by train. The hard part is choosing between two railways, a dozen bus routes and a taxi rank that charges a flat fare, usually while tired and pulling a suitcase.
This guide covers the four places most visitors head for first: Shinjuku, Shibuya, Tokyo Station and Asakusa. Fares and times come from the operators' own websites and were checked in October 2026. Fares change, so treat every price here as correct as of October 2026, and check again close to your trip.
The short version
- Cheapest and usually fastest: the Keikyu line. Change to the JR Yamanote Line at Shinagawa for Shinjuku, Shibuya or Tokyo Station, or stay on a through train to Asakusa.
- Easiest with big luggage: the Airport Limousine bus. It costs two to three times as much as the train, but you hand your bags over at the curb and get off near your hotel.
- On a weekend, holiday or other sale day: the Monorail and Yamanote Line Discount Ticket takes you to any Yamanote Line station for ¥590.
- Landing after midnight: the trains have stopped. Take the late-night bus to Shinjuku or a flat-fare taxi.
Comparison table
Adult one-way fares from Haneda Airport Terminal 3 (the international terminal), as of October 2026. Train times are the operators' own estimates and include the change of train. From Terminals 1 and 2, add about three minutes on Keikyu.
Destination | Cheapest train | Train fare and time | Limousine bus | Taxi flat fare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Shinjuku | Keikyu to Shinagawa, then JR Yamanote Line | ¥590, about 30 minutes | ¥1,400, about 35 minutes or more | ¥9,000 plus tolls |
Shibuya | Keikyu to Shinagawa, then JR Yamanote Line | ¥540, about 23 minutes | ¥1,300, about 40 minutes or more | ¥8,500 plus tolls |
Tokyo Station | Keikyu to Shinagawa, then JR Yamanote Line | ¥540, about 20 minutes | ¥1,200, about 35 minutes or more | ¥7,600 plus tolls (Marunouchi side) |
Asakusa | Keikyu through train onto the Toei Asakusa Line | ¥610, about 34 minutes | ¥1,300, about 65 minutes or more | ¥9,100 plus tolls |
The bus times are for an empty road. Traffic on the expressway can add half an hour, and the operator of the Shibuya bus quotes 45 to 80 minutes. The taxi fares are the daytime flat fares; between 22:00 and 05:00 they are higher (see the taxi section).
Which terminal are you in?
Haneda has three terminals, and the railways give each its own station, so it matters which one you land at.
- Terminal 3 is international only. Almost every overseas airline uses it.
- Terminal 2 handles ANA, AIRDO and Solaseed Air domestic flights, and also ANA's international flights. If you fly ANA from abroad, you may well land here and not at Terminal 3.
- Terminal 1 is domestic only: Japan Airlines, Skymark, StarFlyer and Japan Transocean Air.
The airport keeps the current list of airlines by terminal. Keikyu has two stations, one at Terminal 3 and one between Terminals 1 and 2. The Tokyo Monorail has a separate station for each of the three terminals. At Terminal 3, both railways have ticket gates on the second floor, the arrivals level, so you can walk straight from the arrivals hall to the trains. A free shuttle bus links the terminals, every 4 minutes during the day and every 8 minutes in the evening, until about 01:30.
Keikyu line: the cheap, direct option
Keikyu is a private railway, red trains, and for most of central Tokyo it is the one to take. Shinagawa is 11 minutes from Terminal 3 and 14 minutes from Terminal 1·2. The fare to Shinagawa is ¥330 (¥327 with an IC card) from either station.
For Shinjuku, Shibuya and Tokyo Station, get off at Shinagawa and change to the JR Yamanote Line, the green loop line. The JR leg costs ¥260 to Shinjuku and ¥210 to Shibuya or Tokyo Station (IC cards pay a few yen less), so the whole trip is ¥540 to ¥590. The change at Shinagawa is inside the station: follow the green JR signs to the transfer gate. JR raised its fares in March 2026, so older guides quote lower JR prices.
For Asakusa, you may not need to change at all. Many Keikyu trains from the airport continue past Sengakuji onto the Toei Asakusa Line, through Shimbashi and Nihombashi to Asakusa and Oshiage. Check that the train's destination board names a station on the Asakusa Line (Oshiage, Aoto or Narita Airport, for example). The trip takes about 34 minutes from Terminal 3 and costs ¥610 (¥599 with an IC card): ¥330 for Keikyu plus ¥280 for the Toei subway.
Keikyu also accepts contactless Visa, Mastercard, JCB, American Express and other bank cards at the ticket gates, so you can tap in without buying a ticket. Two catches: tapping with a card gives no Toei transfer discount, and children pay the adult fare. Keikyu's English site for airport travellers is haneda-tokyo-access.com.
Tokyo Monorail: via Hamamatsucho
The monorail runs along the bay to Hamamatsucho, where you change to the JR Yamanote Line. The fastest trains, the Haneda Express, take 13 minutes from Terminal 3 to Hamamatsucho, 17 from Terminal 1 and 19 from Terminal 2, and trains leave about every five minutes. The fare to Hamamatsucho is ¥520 (¥519 with an IC card) from any terminal, as listed on the monorail's fare table.
On a normal weekday the monorail costs more than Keikyu: from Hamamatsucho, JR adds ¥200 to Tokyo Station and ¥260 to Shibuya or Shinjuku, so you pay ¥720 to ¥780 in total. The views over the water are better, though, and the monorail is the easier choice if your hotel is near Hamamatsucho, Shimbashi or Tokyo Tower.
On Saturdays, Sundays, holidays and some other dates, the monorail sells the Monorail and Yamanote Line Discount Ticket: ¥590 from any Haneda terminal to any station on the Yamanote Line, Shinjuku, Shibuya and Tokyo Station included. It is sold only from the ticket machines at the three airport monorail stations, only on the day you travel, and you cannot break the journey. On those days it matches Keikyu to Shinjuku and costs ¥50 more than Keikyu to Shibuya or Tokyo Station.
Airport Limousine bus
The limousine buses are coaches with a luggage hold, run mostly by Airport Transport Service and partly by Keikyu Bus and Tokyu Bus. You load your suitcase underneath, take a seat, and get off at a station or a big hotel. Nobody stands, so a full bus is a full bus: wait for the next one.
- Shinjuku (West Exit, Busta Shinjuku and several hotels): ¥1,400. A separate route goes to Tokyu Kabukicho Tower.
- Shibuya (Shibuya Mark City): ¥1,300.
- Tokyo Station (Yaesu North Exit, Tekko Building): ¥1,200.
- Asakusa (Asakusa View Hotel, on a route that also serves Kinshicho and Toyocho): ¥1,300.
Buy the ticket before you board, from the ticket machines (Terminals 1 and 2) or from the machines or the bus ticket counter (Terminal 3). IC cards are accepted. Each terminal uses different stop numbers; the airport's bus page lists them by destination. Timetables are on the Airport Limousine website.
Take the bus when you have heavy bags, are travelling with small children, or your hotel is one of the stops. Otherwise the train is cheaper and does not get stuck in traffic.
Taxi: flat fares to central Tokyo
Taxis from the Haneda taxi ranks charge a flat fare set by the Tokyo Hire-Taxi Association to most of the 23 wards. You do not need to book from the airport rank. Expressway tolls are paid on top, and the flat fare covers one drop-off only. The fares below have applied since 20 April 2026:
Ward | Covers | Flat fare | 22:00 to 05:00 |
|---|---|---|---|
Chiyoda | Tokyo Station (Marunouchi side), Imperial Palace | ¥7,600 | ¥9,000 |
Shibuya | Shibuya, Harajuku | ¥8,500 | ¥10,000 |
Shinjuku | Shinjuku, Kabukicho | ¥9,000 | ¥10,700 |
Taito | Asakusa, Ueno | ¥9,100 | ¥10,800 |
Chuo ward (Ginza, Nihombashi and the Yaesu side of Tokyo Station) and Minato ward (Roppongi, Shimbashi) are not on the flat-fare list, so taxis there run on the meter. Split four ways, the late-night taxi fare to Shinjuku comes to about the same per person as the late-night bus, before tolls.
Arriving late at night or early in the morning
Plenty of long-haul flights land at Haneda late in the evening or before dawn, when the railways are closed or about to close.
- Last train: the last Keikyu train from Terminal 3 to Shinagawa leaves at 00:08, every day of the week, according to Keikyu's late-night page. If you need JR from Shinagawa, check that your connection is still running too. The monorail also stops around midnight; check its timetable for your date.
- First train: the first Keikyu train from Terminal 3 leaves at 05:26 and reaches Shinagawa at 05:46.
- Late-night bus: Airport Transport Service runs late-night buses to Shinjuku and Ikebukuro, leaving Terminal 3 at 00:20, 01:00, 01:40 and 02:20 (Terminal 2 has a departure at 00:05 and Terminal 1 at 00:10). The fare is ¥2,800, double the daytime fare. The airport notes that the times can change with flight schedules.
- Taxi: the late-night flat fares in the table above apply between 22:00 and 05:00.
If you land around 05:00, there is no point in rushing: the first trains run soon after, and they cost a fraction of a taxi.
IC cards: Welcome Suica and TOURIST PASMO
An IC card is a rechargeable fare card you tap at the gate. It works on Keikyu, the monorail, JR, the subways and most buses, and it saves you working out fares at the ticket machine. Visitors have two cards made for them, both sold at Haneda:
- Welcome Suica (JR East): sold from Welcome Suica machines and the JR EAST Travel Service Center at the Terminal 3 monorail station. No deposit; usable for 28 days; leftover balance is not refunded. JR East also has a Welcome Suica Mobile app for iPhone, valid for 180 days.
- TOURIST PASMO: a new card for short-term visitors, on sale since May 2026 at the Keikyu stations at Haneda in amounts of ¥1,000 to ¥10,000. No deposit; usable for 28 days from issue; no refunds, unused balance included.
The PASMO PASSPORT card that older guides recommend stopped selling in 2024; TOURIST PASMO replaced it. If your phone already has Suica or PASMO in its wallet, you do not need either card.
The JR line that is not there yet
There is no JR train to Haneda today, which is why every train route above has a change of train. JR East is building the Haneda Airport Access Line, which will run straight from Tokyo Station to the airport. Construction is under way, and JR East plans to open it in fiscal 2031, the year that ends in March 2032. Until then, Keikyu and the monorail are the only railways into the airport.
Have a good trip to Tokyo!