On my recent trip from Los Angeles, I had a transit in Tokyo Narita for about 3 hours before heading to Sydney. For my transit, I had access to either the First Class lounge as a Oneworld Emerald member or the Sakura lounge as a Business Class passenger going to Sydney. I of course chose the First lounge and funnily enough had no problems accessing it.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
This lounge is located in the Satelite building and is one of 2 First Class lounges at Tokyo Narita.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
Both the First lounge and Sakura lounge are next to eachother but have seperate help desks. Before you enter you’ll obviously need to show your boarding pass. The ladies at the desk were very friendly and offered to give a tour of the lounge. They can help with any queries regarding your flight, the lounge etc.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
The entry to the lounge is quite beautiful to look at.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
The lounge is absolutely beautiful. It actually reminded me of a few luxury hotels with the dark wood walls and natural light. The Japanese architecture is always modern and simplistic, it was evident in the lounge.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
At the entrance of the lounge, you’ll find some desktop computers, there’s also a printer if you need to print anything. The lounge of course has free wifi for and it was quite fast.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
It’s also important to note, next to the printers, are phone booths. The rule in the lounge is that you can’t answer and talk on the phone unless you’re in one of the booths. The staff were very serious about this rule and for good reason. The lounge was dead quiet, you could hear a pin drop.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
Also at the entrance of the lounge is a massage chair which is free to use.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
The lounge has a heap of seating, both facing the tarmac and away from it.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
As you can see, during the day the lights aren’t turned on as there’s a heap of natural light. The only lights that are on is the mood lighting which gives the lounge a warm feeling.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
The lounge has a small drink and snack section with soft drinks, coffee & tea, champagne, liquor and beer.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
Here’s the coffee and tea facilities:
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
The range of liquor is quite reasonable:
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
This is the softdrink machine and beer dispenser which is pretty awesome as it automatically tilts the glass and fills it.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
Champagne and Sake on ice:
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
Laurent – Perrier Champagne:
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
Small cheese dishes:
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
The lounge isn’t actually that large but it does feel very spacious and when I visited there were probably 15 people maximum.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
The windows looking out at the tarmac have a fantastic view and are usually the most popular. They also have charging & ethernet ports in the window ledge.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
The lounge has a few shower facilities which I took advantage of as I couldn’t in Los Angeles.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
The shower rooms feature all the basic facilities except a bidet or toilet.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
In the middle of the lounge is where the dining area is found. As you can see, it was completely empty.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
There’s a heap of comfortable seating in here and it’s a closed off area to the rest of the lounge meaning it maintains complete quietness.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
There’s a few wines and champagne’s in there.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
As well as more beer machines, there’s quite a lot of fresh food to choose from. There were staff always in there checking to see if the food was fresh and replenishing it if it was empty. The attention to detail from the staff was impressive.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
It quickly went dark outside and the lounge looks even more beautiful at night. It reminded me of some Park Hyatt properties.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
At about 6:00 at night I was the only person in the lounge, this was the case for about an hour.
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
And yes of course, the lounge does feature bidets (Japanese toilets).
Japan Airlines First Class Lounge Narita
7 comments
Lounge looks great mate, question… flying QF J to Natria and back can I use the JAL business lounge at all or will I need status?
Joey – You absolutely can access the lounge. You can do some lounge hopping and go between the Sakura lounge and Qantas lounge if you wanted to. Enjoy your flight! 🙂
Cheers for the reply Zac! Awesome, heard the Nartia QF lounge was a bit sub par so wanted to check out JAL. Love the blog mate, keep it up!
Thank you very much Joey, much appreciated 🙂
Nice report Zac. I am confused reading this report as does not look like the JL first lounge I have used in the past at NRT but then realised you said Satellite lounge. It certainly looks quieter and better furnished than the lounges in main terminal but no sushi bar? Along as it has the beer machine and beef curry I could make do with no sushi! Loved reading about this latest trip!
Scott – yep, sadly no sushi bar but the curry was divine. Thank you very much for reading 🙂
I’ve always found this lounge pretty quiet with few visitors unlike the one in the main terminal. Of course, that one has real massages on offer, as well as a made-to-order sushi bar during certain hours. One of the major reasons to keep Emerald OW status!
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