Tokyo-Narita 17-03-2017 (photo heavy!)
Hello everybody,
this week I'm working to fix an item on my bucketlist; spotting at and visiting Tokyo. Here's an impression of my first afternoon at Narita. I arrived at 10.30 with SAS via Copenhagen from Amsterdam. After passport control and customs I went up to the observation deck on Terminal 1:
1. Narita is a heaven for Dreamliner-lovers with many airlines operating the type with ANA and JAL, like this one, are the most common:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3671/3...f75e82d4_b.jpgB788-JAL-JA836J-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
2. Korean Air B737-800 taking off from 34L on it's way to Busan:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3684/3...0a38a3bf_b.jpgB738-KAL-HL8244-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
As you can see the sun was almost to far around, so I moved to Terminal 2 and started on the left-hand observation deck:
3. FedEx has a large operation at Narita with many B777F's seen during my first two days:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/652/33...c07ff4cd_b.jpgB772F-FDX-N889FD-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
4. I had splendid warm spring weather, which was nice, but did ruin some pictures due to heat haze as is visible on this picture of this China Southern B737-800:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3932/3...b82d2b9a_b.jpgB738-CSZ-B5741-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
5. One of the three Japanese low-cost airlines operating A320s from Narita is Vanilla Air:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3781/3...a2ff672e_b.jpgA320-VNL-JA06VA-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
6. My first Hello Kitty A330-300 from EVA Air:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3736/3...eab3de6b_b.jpgA333-EVA-B16333-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
7. JetStar Japan is another A320 LCC:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3790/3...eed36dd8_b.jpgA320-JET-JA14JJ-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
I then moved to the right hand deck to being able to take some more pictures of planes taxiing.
8. Not as much JAL B737-800s as I expected:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2814/3...13c474cb_b.jpgB738-JAL-JA305J-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
9. Every departing plane gets a send off by three ground crew waving the plane goodbye as can be seen in this picture of this JAL B777-200ER:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3934/3...07993385_b.jpgB772-JAL-JA707J-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
10. Ofcourse Dreamliners from ANA can also be seen:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3946/3...911b473a_b.jpgB788-ANA-JA832A-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
11. Jeju Air from South-Korea B737-800 sporting the new livery:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3793/3...b835d6c8_b.jpgB738-JEJ-HL8061-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
12. Sharp looking A321 from Philippines:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3734/3...4661fcfb_b.jpgA321-PAL-RPC9914-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
13. Another South Korean airline is T'Way:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2813/3...9454cafb_b.jpgB738-TWY-HL8056-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
14. This is the old livery of Jeju Air:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3724/3...a927f0b7_b.jpgB738-JEJ-HL8261-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
15. Yet another South Korean operator is Air Busan:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3950/3...0d45bc55_b.jpgA321-BUS-HL7731-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
16. Another type of ANA and JAL pretty common at Narita is the B767-300ER:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3678/3...253f02ed_b.jpgB763-JAL-JA608J-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
17. China Airlines came with this special liveried A330-300:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3698/3...c1f68b8a_b.jpgA333-CAL-B18358-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
18. And also uses the B737-800:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3836/3...6d4bc98a_b.jpgB738-CAL-B-18658-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
19. Peach is the third LCC flying A320s:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2932/3...043d67c6_b.jpgA320-PCH-JA815P-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
20. Colorful A330-300 of Hong Kong Airlines seen landing on 34R:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2825/3...2f1f84af_b.jpgA333-HKG-BLNU-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
21. Nice to see Tigerair from Taiwan:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2814/3...2b6ea9b3_b.jpgA320-TGR-B50008-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
22. Air Macau is a daily visitor with an A320:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3771/3...47738026_b.jpgA320-MAC-BMCF-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
23. As is HK Express, which operates several times a day:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3753/3...42a2e004_b.jpgA320-HKX-BLCI-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
24. One of many ANA B767-300ERs:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2836/3...5e25511b_b.jpgB763-ANA-JA620A-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
25. Polar Air Cargo is flying with B747-400Fs, B747-800Fs and the B767-300Fs on Narita:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/744/33...a73a5c4a_b.jpgB763F-POL-N644GT-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
26. ANA is operating a small fleet of A320s:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3944/3...4890fa36_b.jpgA320-ANA-JA8313-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
27. United B737-800 coming in from Guam:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3764/3...36289fb0_b.jpgB738-UAL-N37293-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
28. My first American B787 is seen here on arrivals for 34R:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2819/3...d3e04128_b.jpgB788-AAL-N810AN-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
29. Spring Airlines Japan is a subsidiary of Spring Airlines from China:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2837/3...72843eda_b.jpgB738-SPR-JA04GR-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
30. And I end this set with this nice CRJ-700 of Ibex Airlines:
https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3834/3...32464cd0_b.jpgCRJ7-IBX-JA06RJ-NRT17mar17 by Anton Homma, on Flickr
Hope you liked my selection! You can see all 79 pictures at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lifeli...h/33370874352/
Cheers!