If you're landing in Narita, Japan for the first time, I recommend you take the Keisei line into Tokyo. It'll blow your mind just how big the city is. That was my first view of the city way back in 89 when I first came here and I just couldn't believe how built up it was..Literally a sea of high rise building that stretch as far as the eye can see... I ended up working at Narita airport for a few years. My Japanese wife also worked there, and now our son has just graduated from aviation school and is working at Tokyo's other big airport, Haneda, in aircraft maintenance for Japan Airlines. We live near Narita airport now. Close enough to smell the burning rubber of tires and hear the constant roar of Jet engines....I love Narita Airport. It has such a crazy history. It used to look like a gulag back in the 90's...surrounded by riot police and barbed wire. It still has that Stalag 13 feel about it in places but nothing as intense as it used to have back in the day...There's a little local shrine right smack in the middle of runway 34R and you can see it in this clip at 6:57. Probaly connected to the farm that refused to move, so they built the airport around them. There are also cherry tree there that are protected and other things that make Narita one of the weirdest airports in the world. Also for any old veteran pilots who used to fly into Narita back in the 90's you will probably remember the infamous watering hole in front of the ANA hotel..."The Trailer"....It was a crazy little dive where many of us local expats and many aircrew would go and get hammered...Lot's of fights, a few broken noses, a lot of sleaze and a few good friendships made...Well that place is gone now...The new build back better Narita has dispensed with many of the notorious places and gone woke, sterile and NWO...I miss the old days when Narita was like a truck stop for pilots.....I met aircrew there that I subsequently met on flights overseas by pure chance. I met one United airlines attendant I was friends with on a flight to Bankok so I was immediately lavished with VIP treatment LOL and had half the bar dumped in my lap as well as a free ride on the crew bus into the city...Narita was like that...because it's about an hour outside Tokyo, many flight crews just hang out there and they quickly find that there is a sizable community of foreigners who live and work there...Party time!! Anyway..... The farmhouse is the reason why runway 34R is so short. The great thing about that shrine is that A: Most people don't know it's there so it never gets crowds of people and B: Anyone can go there. You're basically as close to the runway as you can get yet still amazingly NOT inside the airport! It's a little pocket of outside that goes right up next to the runway; accessed by a public road that allows you to drive up and park your car under the planes as they land...It's bizarre. I go there a lot...It's got metal fences all around it though which seriously block the view, but when the planes come in they're right on top of you; just seconds from touching down....
Entre les divers FIR impossible à contacter, les accents à travers le monde, pas facile la vie du PNT 777 😆 Ai adoré le roulage :) Et très beau toucher, comme toujours 😏. Bonne escale à ORD, et bon retour!
I visited Japan a few times in the early and mid 90s to work in Tsukuba and entered/left via Narita. At that time the passenger vehicle entrance was barricaded and armed with soldiers and armed vehicles. I was told those field owners were *very* unhappy about the airport or new airstrip. It was all very curious.
I remember it well. It was very big deal before it was finally built. The very unhappy, furious farmers and radical students were fighting with police and military people,(government) It took many years for both sides to come to terms. I don’t exactly remember how long but security was very tight for a long time. My brother usually took me to the airport and both of us were searched carefully, especially my passport and ticket. They made me feel like a criminal. They stoped doing that last twenty years a so. A sad news : From 2020, a lot of international flights are now using HANEDA. I will miss NARITA.
I’ve been through Narita a few times and it seems like you spend as much time taxiing as you do actually flying there!! They sure do love their taxiways!!🤣🤣
There should be three but a family farm held for generations is in the way and the owner refuses to sell his land. Look up the history of Narita (there were even domestic terrorist attacks and protests against it when it was constructed)
I live in japan but in ten days I’ll be going to Narita and flying to the uk for a student program at Cambridge. I’m so excited to get back on a plane!!!!
I actually think that one of the reasons that people are struggling to understand ATC here is that the ATC transmission audio is quite clipped/distorted. I was able to understand other JP ATC calls in other videos (and some videos from this channel too!)
that's an insane taxi. when I landed in narita a couple of years ago it was the shortest taxi of my life. landed, make a quick left, and a right into the gate. from touchdown to seatbelt sign off was maybe 2 minutes.
Kon'nichiwa! こんにちわ! I visited Japan couple of years ago. Love it there. Want to return. (from London BTW, hello!) After viewing number of videos, now I can see clearly why your RU-vid channel is called "High Pressure aviation films" :) Proud to be your one of your many subscribers. Keep up a good work. Sayonara さよなら
Bonjour, superbe vidéo, quand vous parlez de séquencement qu'entendez vous que je puisse me renseigner plus en détail car je compte intégrer les cadets AF à l'issue de ma prépa. Vous vendez du rêve merci
This runway is short for some Japanese local specific reason, only 2300m or something, yet I recommend VREF+10 and auto brake level 3 since Narita is a stupid airport with a sudden wind shear after the decision height. For reference, the FedEx MD11 accident.
Oh my god are you from France? I’m japanese and live in japan(pretty close to Tokyo) but I’ve always wanted to visit France! How crazy is that? We both want to go where the other considers a part of their every day life.
As I understand it, flight crew's flight pay is only from take-off (wheels up) to landing, which means that long taxi time is on the crew's own time... : (
NRT.......One of the most important airport in Asia and Japan, and well equipped convenience facility, but has too many defects........ If original construction plan went well, NRT would have been the best airport of Asia earlier, with ICN and SIN. Also at least 3~4 runways should have been constructed.
The construction of Narita was very unethical. Too many farms and family lands passed down for generations were ruined by its existence. Unless Japan flexes its eminent domain muscles really hard and destroys that family farm, it will always be known as the airport that never made it to its proper glory.
