TOKYO’S MAJOR AIRPORTS ARE SET TO BECOME LINKED – BUT COOPERATION IS STILL LACKING
August 1st, 2012
BY JULIAN RYALL, IN TOKYO
AT present it takes one hour and 32 minutes to complete the transfer between Tokyo's two main airports Narita and Haneda, hampering the city's efforts to be seen as the most important aviation hub in western Asia. Indeed, surveys show travellers prefer the convenience of the new and/or radically updated facilities at the international airports in Hong Kong, Singapore or South Korea. Because of this, an announcement by Japan's ministry of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism (MLIT) in February that it is planning to construct a ...
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