Getting to Narita and Haneda from the Tokyo subway
Neither airport is on the subway. One Toei line runs straight through to both of them on another company’s tracks — and that is the connection worth knowing.
Above: the Keikyu platform at Haneda Airport Terminal 1·2 — a Keikyu station, not a subway station, reached by Toei Asakusa Line trains running through onto the Keikyu Airport Line.
First, the thing other guides get wrong
No subway line reaches either airport. There is no Tokyo Metro or Toei station at Narita and none at Haneda. Any page that tells you to “take the subway to Haneda” is describing a train that leaves the subway partway and finishes the journey as somebody else’s railway, under somebody else’s fare.
That is not a technicality, because it changes the price. The subway fare stops at the boundary and the other company charges from there, so an airport trip is always at least two fares even when you never change trains. What this page does is name the real connections and tell you which company runs each; for times and prices beyond the subway you need that company, and we link them rather than quote figures we cannot source.
The Asakusa Line runs through to both airports
| Airport | Subway line | Whose tracks after that | What happens |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haneda | AAsakusa Line | Keikyu Airport Line | Through service — no change of train. Asakusa Line trains continue onto Keikyu and run to Haneda Airport Terminal 1 and 2. |
| Narita | AAsakusa Line | Keisei Main Line and Keisei Narita Sky Access | Through service — no change of train. Asakusa Line trains continue onto Keisei and run to Narita Airport Terminal 1. |
The Toei Asakusa Line is the only subway line in Tokyo that reaches both airports without a change of train, and it does it by not staying a subway: at its southern end its trains continue onto the Keikyu network towards Haneda, and at its northern end onto Keisei towards Narita. Some trains run the whole way from one airport to the other through the middle of Tokyo.
You board at an ordinary Asakusa Line station — Asakusa, Nihombashi, Shimbashi, Sengakuji — and read the destination on the front of the train. Not every Asakusa Line train goes to an airport: most terminate inside the network, so the destination board is the thing to check, not the line colour.
Where the subway hands over
| Subway station | Railway you can change to there |
|---|---|
| A09 E20 Daimon | Haneda Airport Line (Tokyo Monorail) |
| A07 Sengakuji | Keikyu Main Line (Keikyu Corporation) |
| Z14 A20 Oshiage (Skytree) | Oshiage Line (Keisei Electric Railway) |
| G16 H18 Ueno | Keisei Main Line (Keisei Electric Railway) |
| G19 A18 Asakusa | Tobu Skytree Line (Tobu Railway) |
These are the places the operators themselves record as connections to a railway that serves an airport. Daimon is the subway’s transfer to the Tokyo Monorail, which runs to all three Haneda terminals from Hamamatsucho next door. Ueno is the subway’s transfer to Keisei, whose Skyliner to Narita starts from Keisei-Ueno a short walk away. Sengakuji is where the Asakusa Line meets the Keikyu main line, and Oshiage where it meets Keisei.
Tokyo Station (M17) is the Marunouchi Line’s interchange with JR East, which runs its own airport services from its own platforms there. JR, Keisei, Keikyu and the monorail each set their own fares and timetables, and none of them is in our data — check the operator before you travel.
What this page deliberately does not tell you
No journey times and no fares beyond the subway. Those belong to Keikyu, Keisei, JR East and the Tokyo Monorail, we do not hold their data, and a plausible-looking number here would be worse than no number — you would have no way of telling the two apart. The companies publish both on their own sites, and the airports publish comparison tables of every option including the limousine buses.
What we can tell you with confidence is the subway half: which line, from which station, with which station number, and the fact that the fare stops at the boundary. Our route planner will get you to any Asakusa Line station and tell you what that part costs.